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Journal of Applied Biomechanics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc..
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ISSN 1065-8483Verify ISSN ↗1543-2688Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 80 / 172 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 194 / 340 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Biophysics | 113 / 155 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Journal of Applied Biomechanics is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 80 of 172), Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 194 of 340) and Q3 in Biophysics (rank 113 of 155), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Applied Biomechanics 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.503, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
Journal of Applied Biomechanics is published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1065-8483 and its online ISSN is 1543-2688.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Applied Biomechanics has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Journal of Applied Biomechanics published 75 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 76. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.5%), Canada (16.5%) and Japan (5.5%).
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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