Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
International Journal of Sport Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by Sage Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1558-6235Verify ISSN ↗1930-076XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 232 / 342 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 359 / 456 | 21st | Q4 |
| Marketing | 178 / 221 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
International Journal of Sport Finance is Q3 in Finance (rank 232 of 342), Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 359 of 456) and Q4 in Marketing (rank 178 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sport Finance is indexed in the 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.418, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
International Journal of Sport Finance is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 1558-6235 and its online ISSN is 1930-076X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Sport Finance has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #292 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
International Journal of Sport Finance published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 42. 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 51 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.7%), Germany (23.2%) and Taiwan (5.9%).
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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.