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Monthly Labor Review

US Bureau of Labor Statistics · United States · Est. 1915

ISSN1937-4658

SJR Q3✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2017-02-02). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

Find the journal’s official page ↗Open the official JCR record on Clarivate ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.323

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,810

Total Citationsi

26,597

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.18

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Industrial Relations & Labor; Management of Technology and Innovation; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Strategy and Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1915

Annual Volume~ 26 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2024)

Total Publications1,810

Publisher OrgBureau of Labor Statistics

OA Since2018

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

US Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1937-4658

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

276

2017

362

2018

256

2019

518

2020

307

2021

239

2022

2023

2024

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Management of Technology and InnovationQ3

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ3

Strategy and ManagementQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Industrial Relations & Labor

Scopus Categories

Management of Technology and InnovationStrategy and ManagementOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Employment and Welfare StudiesLabor market dynamics and wage inequalityLabor Movements and UnionsEducation Systems and PolicyRetirement, Disability, and EmploymentGender, Labor, and Family DynamicsEconomic Growth and ProductivityDigital Economy and Work TransformationOccupational Health and Safety ResearchWork-Family Balance Challenges

Frequently asked questions about Monthly Labor Review

Is Monthly Labor Review a predatory journal?

Monthly Labor Review was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2017-02-02). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Monthly Labor Review?

Monthly Labor Review is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.18.

Is Monthly Labor Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Monthly Labor Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Monthly Labor Review?