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Journal of Sport History is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), ABDC C. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Illinois Press.
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ISSN 0094-1700Verify ISSN ↗2155-8450Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1214 / 1936 | 37th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1049 / 1434 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 2010, 1999–2002, 1989, 1987, 1981–1984, 1977–1979), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Sport History is Q3 in History (rank 1214 of 1936) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1049 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Sport History 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 37th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.120, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Journal of Sport History is published by University of Illinois Press. Its print ISSN is 0094-1700 and its online ISSN is 2155-8450.
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 C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sport History has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #691 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Sport History published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 165. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (69.3%), Canada (13.5%) and United Kingdom (3.1%). 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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