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Journal of Human Kinetics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Termedia Publishing House Ltd..
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ISSN 1640-5544Verify ISSN ↗1899-7562Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Termedia Publishing House Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 37 / 257 | 85th | Q1 |
| Physiology (medical) | 42 / 117 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Journal of Human Kinetics is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 37 of 257) and Q2 in Physiology (medical) (rank 42 of 117), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Human Kinetics 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.200, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
Journal of Human Kinetics is published by Termedia Publishing House Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1640-5544 and its online ISSN is 1899-7562.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Human Kinetics has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 3.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Journal of Human Kinetics published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 130. 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 Spain (17.2%), Poland (14.6%) and China (11.9%).
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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