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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

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