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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

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