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Human Sport Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by South Ural State University - Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service.
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ISSN 2500-0195Verify ISSN ↗2500-0209Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South Ural State University - Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 304 / 340 | 10th | Q4 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 234 / 257 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Human Sport Medicine is Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 304 of 340) and Q4 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 234 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Sport 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 10th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.224, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Human Sport Medicine is published by South Ural State University - Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service. Its print ISSN is 2500-0195 and its online ISSN is 2500-0209.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Human Sport Medicine has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Human Sport Medicine published 14 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 135. 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.
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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