ILR Review

ILR Review is published by Cornell University Press and is in Zone 3 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Labor Movements and Unions, Labor market dynamics and wage inequality and Employment and Welfare Studies, together about 55.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Our goal is to publish the best empirical research on the world of work, to advance theory, and to inform policy and practice. We welcome papers that are bold and original, novel theories, innovative research methods, and new approaches to organizational and public policy. Important real world problems ILR Review publishes research on important issues—globalization, capital and labor mobility, inequality, wage setting, unemployment, labor market dynamics, international migration, work organization and technology, human resource management and personnel economics, demographic and ethnic differences in labor markets, workplace conflicts, alternative forms of representation, and labor regulation. International and comparative scope Research by international scholars is central to the ILR Review and to our mission of advancing knowledge of the changing nature of work and employment relations. It also improves our awareness, acceptance, tolerance, and understanding of others' perspectives and challenges. Comparative institutional, organizational, and market analyses make critical contributions to the journal. Interdisciplinary approaches ILR Review highly values research from diverse social science perspectives including anthropology, economics, history, industrial relations, law, management, political science, psychology, and sociology. We believe that interdisciplinary debate spurs innovative research and policy development. Diverse research methodologies ILR Review publishes high-quality empirical work that embraces a wide range of methodologies. We feature ethnographic and qualitative approaches and theory-building, mixed methods, and formal econometric modeling.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

7.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.84LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

220OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,846OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.94OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

32.95%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

32LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

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Publisher

Cornell University Press

ISSN

0019-7939

Electronic ISSN

2162-271X

Latest issue on the website

Volume 79, Issue 4 (August 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website