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International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 1464-6668Verify ISSN ↗2515-7841Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 71 / 342 | 79th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 139 / 456 | 69th | Q2 |
| Marketing | 88 / 221 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship is Q1 in Finance (rank 71 of 342), Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 139 of 456) and Q2 in Marketing (rank 88 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.767, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1464-6668 and its online ISSN is 2515-7841.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
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 Sports Marketing and Sponsorship has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 3.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 78. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.6%), China (7.3%) and South Korea (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.9 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.
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