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International Journal of Sports Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 0172-4622Verify ISSN ↗1439-3964Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 55 / 257 | 78th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 84 / 340 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
International Journal of Sports Medicine is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 55 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 84 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sports Medicine is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.773, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 135.
International Journal of Sports Medicine is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0172-4622 and its online ISSN is 1439-3964.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Sports Medicine has an h-index of 180 and a 2-year mean of 4.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
International Journal of Sports Medicine published 148 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 233. 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 (19.5%), Spain (14.8%) and Brazil (9.6%).
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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