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International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.1), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..
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ISSN 1475-8962Verify ISSN ↗1740-2808Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 375 / 456 | 17th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 424 / 506 | 16th | Q4 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 194 / 225 | 14th | Q4 |
| Marketing | 192 / 221 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.1.
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing is Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 375 of 456), Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 424 of 506) and Q4 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 194 of 225), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4, 17th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.235, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 36.
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1475-8962 and its online ISSN is 1740-2808.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
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 Management and Marketing has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #354 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 66. 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 64 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from United States (31.5%), United Kingdom (9.1%) and Canada (7.6%).
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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