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International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1940-6940Verify ISSN ↗1940-6959Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 91 / 744 | 87th | Q1 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 67 / 156 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 91 of 744) and Q2 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 67 of 156), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.969, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1940-6940 and its online ISSN is 1940-6959.
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.
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 Policy and Politics has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 64. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.9%), Germany (12.8%) and United States (11%).
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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