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International Sports Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES).
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ISSN 1443-0770Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1440 / 1698 | 15th | Q4 |
| Applied Psychology | 237 / 258 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
International Sports Studies is Q4 in Education (rank 1440 of 1698) and Q4 in Applied Psychology (rank 237 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
International Sports Studies 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.127, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
International Sports Studies is published by International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES). Its ISSN is 1443-0770.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Sports Studies has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,312 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
International Sports Studies published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 24. 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 48 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Philippines (27.1%), Malaysia (18.1%) and China (9.4%).
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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