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Journal of Sport Biomechanics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by Islamic Azad University of Hamedan.
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ISSN 2476-4906Verify ISSN ↗2476-5937Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Islamic Azad University of Hamedan
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 290 / 340 | 14th | Q4 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 226 / 257 | 12th | Q4 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 44 / 48 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Sport Biomechanics is Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 290 of 340), Q4 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 226 of 257) and Q4 in Human Factors and Ergonomics (rank 44 of 48), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Sport Biomechanics 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 14th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Sport Biomechanics is published by Islamic Azad University of Hamedan. Its print ISSN is 2476-4906 and its online ISSN is 2476-5937.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Sport Biomechanics has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Sport Biomechanics published 24 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 25. 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 42 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Iran (100%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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