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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Personnel Review	26
2	Human Resources for Health	24
3	International Journal of Manpower	23
-	Journal of Labor Economics	23
5	Human Resource Management Journal	21
6	Employee Relations	18
-	Work Employment and Society	18
8	Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources	16
9	Transfer-European Review of Labour and Research	15
10	International Labour Review	14
-	ILR Review	14
-	Work and Occupations	14
13	Economic and Industrial Democracy	13
-	Human Resource Development Quarterly	13
-	Journal of Industrial Relations	13
-	Public Personnel Management	13
-	Industrial Relations	13
18	European Journal of Industrial Relations	11
-	Journal of Human Resources	11
20	British Journal of Industrial Relations	10
21	Economic and Labour Relations Review	8
22	Monthly Labor Review	7
23	Industrial Law Journal	6
-	Labor History	6
-	Relations Industrielles-Industrial Relations	6
26	Journal of Labor Research	5
27	Labour History	3
-	International Labor and Working-Class History	3
29	Labour-Le Travail	2