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International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
ISSN 1740-8938 · eISSN 1740-8946 · Inderscience Publishers
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion: subscription journal; 53 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion is published by Inderscience Publishers. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Emotional Labor in Professions and Employee Performance and Management, together about 45.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Emotional labour and emotion work Emotional intelligence Emotion and social organisation Emotional and embodied nature of research Play and pleasure at work and beyond Organisational corporeality Body work Aesthetic labour Political economy of emotions at work and society at large Changing nature of work and organisation Commodification and exploitation Gender and sexuality Control and resistance Performativity Organisational, cultural, economic inequality More on this journal... ObjectivesThe aim of IJWOE is to act as a focal point for the dissemination of theoretical and empirical developments in the area of emotion, embodiment and related organisational and socio-cultural phenomena. It seeks contributions from diverse disciplinary fields including management and organisational analysis, gender studies, sociology, psychology, political economy, and more practitioner-orientated traditions such as human resource management and occupational health amongst others. It welcomes research from a range of methodological perspectives and aims to communicate with both academics and practitioners in the field. As an international journal, it also aims to explore how emotional and embodied processes are experienced, managed, controlled and resisted across a range of national and cultural contexts.ReadershipIJWOE will be of interest to academics, researchers, practitioners and policy makers and all those with an interest in the emotional, embodied, aesthetic and political dimensions of work, organisation and society.ContentsIJWOE includes original academic papers and book reviews. There will be occasional special reviews devoted to important topics and themes in the area as well as guest editions. Shorter research notes and dialogue pieces are also welcomed.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Business, Management and Accounting-Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Editor-in-chief Mosad ZineldinPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting24.5%
- Emotional Labor in ProfessionsSocial Sciences12.8%
- Employee Performance and ManagementSocial Sciences8.6%
- Emotional Intelligence and PerformancePsychology7.2%
- Stress and Burnout ResearchPsychology4.4%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting3.5%
- Work-Family Balance ChallengesSocial Sciences3.5%
- Workplace Spirituality and LeadershipSocial Sciences3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | Q3 | 190/254 | — |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.17LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.23LetPub ·
- h-index
- 25OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 81OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.29OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 541 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26 | 0 | 165 |
| 2025 | 53 | 1 | 234 |
| 2024 | 41 | 7 | 245 |
| 2023 | 40 | 1 | 251 |
| 2022 | 50 | 2 | 248 |
| 2021 | 38 | 2 | 252 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Colour charges
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Other fees
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Page charges
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Submission fee
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open Access
There are no fees for publishing with Inderscience, unless you require your article to be OA. OA articles accepted for publication are available online and freely accessible to all without any restriction except use for commercial purposes; a fee must be paid by the author(s) for an article to be made OA. Open Access papers may be published according to the Inderscience Open Access option.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Inderscience Publishers
- ISSN
- 1740-8938
- Electronic ISSN
- 1740-8946
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
Which databases index International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion is indexed in Scopus.
Is International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .