Industrial Relations & Labor: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Personnel Review	26
2	Journal of Labor Economics	25
3	Human Resources for Health	23
-	International Journal of Manpower	23
5	Human Resource Management Journal	21
6	Employee Relations	18
7	Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources	17
-	Work Employment and Society	17
9	International Labour Review	15
-	Transfer-European Review of Labour and Research	15
11	Work and Occupations	14
12	Journal of Industrial Relations	13
-	ILR Review	13
-	Industrial Relations	13
15	Economic and Industrial Democracy	12
-	Human Resource Development Quarterly	12
-	Public Personnel Management	12
18	Journal of Human Resources	11
19	European Journal of Industrial Relations	10
20	British Journal of Industrial Relations	9
21	Economic and Labour Relations Review	8
22	Industrial Law Journal	7
-	Monthly Labor Review	7
24	Labor History	6
25	Journal of Labor Research	5
-	Relations Industrielles-Industrial Relations	5
27	Labour History	3
28	International Labor and Working-Class History	2
-	Labour-Le Travail	2