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Journal of Sport Rehabilitation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc..
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ISSN 1056-6716Verify ISSN ↗1543-3072Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 62 / 172 | 64th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 102 / 257 | 60th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 148 / 340 | 56th | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 97 / 155 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 62 of 172), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 102 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 148 of 340), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.609, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 70.
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation is published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1056-6716 and its online ISSN is 1543-3072.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation published 111 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 149. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.2%), Australia (9.1%) and Brazil (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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