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International Sport Coaching Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc..
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ISSN 2328-918XVerify ISSN ↗2328-9198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 130 / 387 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
International Sport Coaching Journal is Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 130 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
International Sport Coaching Journal 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.602, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
International Sport Coaching Journal is published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 2328-918X and its online ISSN is 2328-9198.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Sport Coaching Journal has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
International Sport Coaching Journal published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 68. 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 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.9%), United States (17.4%) and Canada (16%).
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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