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Journal of Sport Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc..
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ISSN 0888-4773Verify ISSN ↗1543-270XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 21 / 257 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 30 / 340 | 91st | Q1 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 61 / 254 | 76th | Q1 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 16 / 43 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Journal of Sport Management is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 21 of 257), Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 30 of 340) and Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 61 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Sport Management is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.435, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
Journal of Sport Management is published by Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0888-4773 and its online ISSN is 1543-270X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
It is graded 2 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 Management has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Journal of Sport Management published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 121. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (65.5%), Canada (17.6%) and Australia (4.8%). 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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