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Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Edizioni Minerva Medica.
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ISSN 0022-4707Verify ISSN ↗1827-1928Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edizioni Minerva Medica
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 116 / 257 | 55th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 174 / 340 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 116 of 257) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 174 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.450, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 80.
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness is published by Edizioni Minerva Medica. Its print ISSN is 0022-4707 and its online ISSN is 1827-1928.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #139 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness published 162 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 273. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Italy (17.4%), United States (13.3%) and Japan (8.1%).
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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