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Labour and Industry

Informa UK Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1987

ISSN2325-5676

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.335

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.472

Total Worksi

858

Total Citationsi

9,315

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.18

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Labour and Industry is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research offering a multi-disciplinary perspective on the social, organizational and institutional aspects of work and industrial relations. The journal focuses on critical issues surrounding work, employment relations, and the socio-economic factors influencing labor dynamics across various sectors, providing a platform for empirical research, theoretical discussions, and policy analysis in the realm of labor studies.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

Annual Volume~ 24 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications858

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

Visit Journal Website

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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Informa UK Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2325-5676

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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

874

2019

189

2020

207

2021

258

2022

136

2023

2024

2025

2026

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.

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q2

Industrial RelationsQ3

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ3

Public AdministrationQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Industrial Relations & Labor

Scopus Categories

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementPublic AdministrationIndustrial Relations

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Labor Movements and UnionsEmployment and Welfare StudiesDigital Economy and Work TransformationSocial Policy and Reform StudiesLabor market dynamics and wage inequalityWork-Family Balance ChallengesRetirement, Disability, and EmploymentGender Diversity and InequalityGlobal trade, sustainability, and social impactEmotional Labor in Professions

Frequently asked questions about Labour and Industry

Is Labour and Industry a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Labour and Industry: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Labour and Industry?

Labour and Industry 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 Labour and Industry indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Labour and Industry is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.