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Journal of Athletic Training is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. Published by National Athletic Trainers' Association Inc..
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ISSN 1062-6050Verify ISSN ↗1938-162XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Athletic Trainers' Association Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 45 / 257 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 69 / 340 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Journal of Athletic Training is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 45 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 69 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Athletic Training 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.166, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 146.
Journal of Athletic Training is published by National Athletic Trainers' Association Inc. Its print ISSN is 1062-6050 and its online ISSN is 1938-162X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Athletic Training has an h-index of 136 and a 2-year mean of 1.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Journal of Athletic Training published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 241. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (74.6%), South Korea (5.6%) and Canada (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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