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Journal of Applied Sport Management is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Sagamore Publishing.
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ISSN 2327-0179Verify ISSN ↗2327-0187Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 535 / 744 | 28th | Q3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 220 / 254 | 13th | Q4 |
| Marketing | 205 / 221 | 7th | Q4 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 147 / 156 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Applied Sport Management is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 535 of 744), Q4 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 220 of 254) and Q4 in Marketing (rank 205 of 221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Applied Sport Management 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.209, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Applied Sport Management is published by Sagamore Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2327-0179 and its online ISSN is 2327-0187.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Applied Sport Management has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #383 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Applied Sport Management published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 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 73 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (90.4%), Canada (2.7%) and South Korea (2.7%). 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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