Industrial Relations & Labor: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Personnel Review	12
2	Human Resources for Health	11
3	International Journal of Manpower	9
4	Public Personnel Management	8
-	Human Resource Management Journal	8
-	Journal of Labor Economics	8
7	Employee Relations	7
-	Work and Occupations	7
9	Work Employment and Society	6
10	Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources	5
-	International Labour Review	5
-	Transfer-European Review of Labour and Research	5
-	Economic and Labour Relations Review	5
-	European Journal of Industrial Relations	5
15	Economic and Industrial Democracy	4
16	Human Resource Development Quarterly	3
-	Journal of Industrial Relations	3
-	Industrial Relations	3
-	Journal of Human Resources	3
20	Journal of Labor Research	2
-	British Journal of Industrial Relations	2
-	ILR Review	2
23	Industrial Law Journal	1
-	Monthly Labor Review	1
-	International Labor and Working-Class History	1
-	Labor History	1
-	Relations Industrielles-Industrial Relations	1
28	Labour History	0
-	Labour-Le Travail	0