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Journal of Motor Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0022-2895Verify ISSN ↗1940-1027Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 172 / 340 | 49th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 103 / 169 | 39th | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 79 / 129 | 39th | Q3 |
| Biophysics | 102 / 155 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Motor Behavior is Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 172 of 340), Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 103 of 169) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 79 of 129), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Motor Behavior is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.446, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 85.
Journal of Motor Behavior is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0022-2895 and its online ISSN is 1940-1027.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Motor Behavior has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #204 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Motor Behavior published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 91. 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 (29%), Japan (13.3%) and Iran (9.5%).
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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