Journal profile · Business, Management and Accounting-Industrial Relations
Transfer
ISSN 1996-7284 · CRET · Spain
Transfer: CAS Zone 3 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.8 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 3,650; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 33 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Transfer is published by CRET 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, Social Policy and Reform Studies and Employment and Welfare Studies, together about 58.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Transfer stimulates dialogue between the European trade union movement and the academic and research community. It contributes research findings on issues of strategic relevance for trade unions, in particular with regard to developments at the European level. Transfer … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Business, Management and Accounting-Industrial Relations
Editor-in-chief Philippe Pochet Sant’AnnaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Belgium 5, Italy 3, Germany 2, Netherlands 2, United States 1 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Labor Movements and UnionsSocial Sciences28.9%
- Social Policy and Reform StudiesSocial Sciences18.7%
- Employment and Welfare StudiesHealth Professions10.8%
- European Union Policy and GovernanceSocial Sciences5.8%
- Digital Economy and Work TransformationSocial Sciences4.5%
- International Labor and Employment LawSocial Sciences4.4%
- Housing, Finance, and NeoliberalismEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.3%
- Regional Development and PolicySocial Sciences2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
Indexed in: no record yet.
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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.22LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.96LetPub ·
- h-index
- 59OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 462OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.78OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,326 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26 | 21 | 6 |
| 2025 | 33 | 26 | 47 |
| 2024 | 29 | 23 | 104 |
| 2023 | 44 | 32 | 505 |
| 2022 | 47 | 22 | 819 |
| 2021 | 48 | 31 | 476 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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
Fully open accessLetPub
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
What to prepare10 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 150 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- preprint
Article types accepted3
- editorialPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Transfer aims to stimulate the dialogue between the Europe…Length not stated
- letterPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Transfer aims to stimulate the dialogue between the Europe…Length not stated
- perspectivePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Transfer aims to stimulate the dialogue between the Europe…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice pr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.
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
- CRET
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- Spanish, English, French, Catalan, Portuguese
- ISSN
- 1996-7284
- Print ISSN
- 1024-2589
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Transfer
What CAS zone is Transfer in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Transfer is in Zone 3 of Management, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Industrial Relations & Labor. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Transfer?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.8; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 59.
How long does peer review take at Transfer?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Transfer?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 150 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Harvard; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Transfer based?
Of the 21 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Belgium (5), Italy (3) and Germany (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Is Transfer open access, and what is the APC?
Transfer is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,650.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .