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Journal of Sport and Tourism is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1029-5399Verify ISSN ↗1477-5085Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 69 / 156 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 1993–2014), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of Sport and Tourism is Q2 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 69 of 156), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Sport and Tourism is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2, 56th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.535, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
Journal of Sport and Tourism is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1029-5399 and its online ISSN is 1477-5085.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Tourism.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sport and Tourism has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 152 Scopus journals in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.
Journal of Sport and Tourism published 24 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (23%), Japan (6.2%) and Spain (5.2%).
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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