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Journal of Human Sport and Exercise is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Asociacion Espanola de Analisis del Rendimiento Deportivo.
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ISSN 1988-5202Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asociacion Espanola de Analisis del Rendimiento Deportivo
Cost to publish: About US$215 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 925 / 1698 | 45th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 225 / 387 | 41st | Q3 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 151 / 257 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise is Q3 in Education (rank 925 of 1698), Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 225 of 387) and Q3 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 151 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.379, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$215 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise is published by Asociacion Espanola de Analisis del Rendimiento Deportivo. Its ISSN is 1988-5202.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #443 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise published 126 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 146. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Spain (12.9%), China (9.2%) and Colombia (6%).
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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