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Human Movement Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0167-9457Verify ISSN ↗1872-7646Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,620 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 136 / 340 | 60th | Q2 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 82 / 169 | 51st | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 92 / 155 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Human Movement Science is Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 136 of 340), Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 82 of 169) and Q3 in Biophysics (rank 92 of 155), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Movement Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.544, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 114.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,620 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.
Human Movement Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-9457 and its online ISSN is 1872-7646.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Human Movement Science has an h-index of 148 and a 2-year mean of 2.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Human Movement Science published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 185. 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 States (18.7%), Japan (11.5%) and Canada (9.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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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