Industrial Relations Journal

Aims & Scope

Industrial Relations Journal is a cutting edge, research based, peer reviewed publication focusing on the changing nature, forms and regulation of the employment relationship.

Edited by Professor Peter Nolan, the Journal welcomes contributions that further understanding of industrial relations, labour markets, and the organisation and future of work.

With a strong international embrace, the Journal has been at the forefront of the contemporary analysis of state, capital and labour relations in a period of crisis and institutional flux.

It aims to lift the quality of academic and policy debate through the publication of theoretically and historically grounded studies of the shifting character of industrial relations in the twenty first century.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.5
2024	1.60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5519

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1444

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.920

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	13

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• ‘An assembly line in the head’: work and employee relations in the call centre

  Citation: 500

  Authors: Phil, Peter

• Partnership versus organising: alternative futures for British trade unionism

  Citation: 154

  Authors: Edmund

• Equal opportunities: the short and long agenda

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Cynthia

• European trade unions and ‘atypical’ workers

  Citation: 117

  Authors: Rebecca

• Vocational training and the labour market in liberal and coordinated economies

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Gerhard, Jean

• How to close the gender pay gap in Europe: towards the gender mainstreaming of pay policy

  Citation: 102

  Authors: Jill, Damian, Hugo

• What about the workers? The expansion of higher education and the transformation of academic work

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Colin

• Reframing employment relations: the case for neo‐pluralism

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Peter

• Worker voice, managerial response and labour productivity: an empirical investigation

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Alex, Andy, John

• Trade unions, collective bargaining and macroeconomic performance: a review

  Citation: 84

  Authors: Toke S., Zafiris

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