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Journal of Motor Learning and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc..
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ISSN 2325-3193Verify ISSN ↗2325-3215Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 201 / 340 | 41st | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 117 / 169 | 31st | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 90 / 129 | 30th | Q3 |
| Biophysics | 117 / 155 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Journal of Motor Learning and Development is Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 201 of 340), Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 117 of 169) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 90 of 129), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Motor Learning and Development 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.409, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
Journal of Motor Learning and Development is published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 2325-3193 and its online ISSN is 2325-3215.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Motor Learning and Development has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #157 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Motor Learning and Development published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 58. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.5%), United Kingdom (10.8%) and Canada (7.3%).
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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