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Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2096-6709Verify ISSN ↗2662-1371Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 48 / 172 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 83 / 257 | 67th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 120 / 340 | 64th | Q2 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 78 / 147 | 47th | Q3 |
| Physiology | 114 / 196 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 48 of 172), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 83 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 120 of 340), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Science in 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.573, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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 Science in Sport and Exercise is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2096-6709 and its online ISSN is 2662-1371.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 2.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 64. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (14.7%), United States (14.4%) and United Kingdom (10.5%).
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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