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Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0094-8705Verify ISSN ↗1543-2939Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 120 / 891 | 86th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 252 / 744 | 66th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 129 / 257 | 50th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 196 / 387 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1974–1993), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 120 of 891), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 252 of 744) and Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 129 of 257), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is indexed in the 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.786, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0094-8705 and its online ISSN is 1543-2939.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #85 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 42. 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 (37.8%), United Kingdom (10%) and Canada (8.2%).
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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