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ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd..
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ISSN 1091-5397Verify ISSN ↗1536-593XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 112 / 257 | 56th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 167 / 340 | 51st | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 364 / 725 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 112 of 257), Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 167 of 340) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 364 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.459, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1091-5397 and its online ISSN is 1536-593X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal published 105 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 112. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 34 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (87.3%), Brazil (3.9%) and Japan (2.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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