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Best Industrial Relations journals

60 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Industrial Relations. The top 60 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 15 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Journal of Management in Engineering 13.1 99th Q1 SCIE A No
2 Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 11.9 97th Q1 ESCI C No
3 Strategic Organization 11.8 95th Q1 SSCI A No
4 Personnel Review 11.3 94th Q1 SSCI A No
5 Industrial Management and Data Systems 10.1 92th Q1 SCIE A No
6 Academy of Management Discoveries 8.7 90th Q1 SSCI A* No
7 Journal of Labor Economics 8.5 89th Q1 SSCI A* No
8 Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 8.2 87th Q1 SCIE A* No
9 Transfer 7.8 86th Q1 SSCI C No
10 Employee Relations 7.4 84th Q1 SSCI A No
11 Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M 6.8 82th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
12 Work, Aging and Retirement 6.5 81th Q1 SSCI B No
13 Corporate Communications 6.3 79th Q1 ESCI B No
14 Quality Technology and Quantitative Management 5.8 77th Q1 SCIE C No
15 Cuadernos de Gestion 5.8 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
16 Journal of Industrial Relations 5.3 74th Q2 SSCI A No
17 Industrial Relations 5.3 72th Q2 SSCI A* No
18 Business and Society Review 4.7 71th Q2 ESCI C No
19 Journal of Civil Engineering Education 4.4 69th Q2 SCIE – No
20 Work in the Global Economy 4.4 68th Q2 – – No
21 Business and Politics 3.8 66th Q2 SSCI C Yes
22 Evidence-based HRM 3.8 64th Q2 ESCI B No
23 Industrial Relations Journal 3.7 63th Q2 ESCI A No
24 IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 3.6 61th Q2 SSCI B No
25 Management and Labour Studies 3.5 59th Q2 – C No
26 Business and Human Rights Journal 3.5 58th Q2 ESCI B No
27 Society and Economy 3.3 56th Q2 – C Yes
28 Labour and Industry 2.8 54th Q2 ESCI B No
29 International Journal of Industrial Organization 2.8 53th Q2 SSCI A* No
30 International Journal of Technology Management 2.7 51th Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
31 Production 2.5 50th Q2 – – Yes
32 Journal for Labour Market Research 2.5 48th Q3 ESCI – Yes
33 European Journal of Family Business 2.4 46th Q3 ESCI – Yes
34 Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 2.1 45th Q3 ESCI – No
35 Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios 2.1 43th Q3 SSCI – Yes
36 IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 41th Q3 – – No
37 IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1.9 40th Q3 – A No
38 Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 1.8 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
39 Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 1.8 36th Q3 ESCI – Yes
40 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 1.8 35th Q3 ESCI B No
41 Labor Studies Journal 1.5 33th Q3 – B No
42 RAE Revista de Administracao de Empresas 1.4 31th Q3 SSCI C Yes
43 New Labor Forum 1.3 30th Q3 – – No
44 Research in Labor Economics 1.2 28th Q3 – – No
45 Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales 1 27th Q3 ESCI – Yes
46 Travail Humain 0.8 25th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – No
47 Asian International Studies Review 0.7 23th Q4 – – No
48 Revista de Gestion Publica 0.4 22th Q4 ESCI – No
49 World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 0.4 20th Q4 – – No
50 Labour History 0.4 18th Q4 SSCI A No
51 Labour/Le Travail 0.3 17th Q4 AHCI, SSCI B No
52 Industrielle Beziehungen 0.3 15th Q4 – – No
53 Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 0.3 13th Q4 ESCI B No
54 Mundo Agrario 0.3 12th Q4 ESCI – Yes
55 E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 0.3 10th Q4 ESCI – No
56 Revue d'Economie Industrielle 0.2 7th Q4 – – No
57 Journal of Organizational Behavior Education 0.2 5th Q4 – C No
58 Sociologie du Travail 0.2 4th Q4 SSCI B No
59 Retraite et Societe 0.2 2th Q4 – – No
60 Printed Circuit Design and Fab/Circuits Assembly 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Industrial Relations Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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