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International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by North American Sports Medicine Institute.
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ISSN 2159-2896Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: North American Sports Medicine Institute
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 56 / 172 | 67th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 95 / 257 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 144 / 340 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 56 of 172), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 95 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 144 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.750, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 30.
International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy is published by North American Sports Medicine Institute. Its ISSN is 2159-2896.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy published 181 papers in 2025. 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 85 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (51.6%), Japan (12.9%) and Spain (4.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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