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Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), 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 0091-6331Verify ISSN ↗1538-3008Verify 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 | 9 / 257 | 96th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 13 / 340 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 9 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 13 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.514, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0091-6331 and its online ISSN is 1538-3008.
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.
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews has an h-index of 159 and a 2-year mean of 4.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 39. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.1%), Canada (10.6%) and Australia (8.3%). 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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