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German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Berlin.
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ISSN 2509-3142Verify ISSN ↗2509-3150Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Berlin
Cost to publish: About US$2,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 65 / 257 | 74th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 98 / 340 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 65 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 98 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.567, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research is published by Springer Berlin. Its print ISSN is 2509-3142 and its online ISSN is 2509-3150.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 103. 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 81 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (54.9%), Spain (9.9%) and Brazil (6%). 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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