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BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 72 / 257 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 109 / 340 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 72 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 109 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.025, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,839 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2055-7647.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 3.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine published 196 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 207. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.1%), United States (11.7%) and Australia (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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