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Korean Journal of Sport Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), DOAJ. Published by Korea Institute of Sport Science.
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ISSN 1598-2920Verify ISSN ↗2233-7938Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korea Institute of Sport Science
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 321 / 340 | 5th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 690 / 725 | 4th | Q4 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 245 / 257 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Korean Journal of Sport Science is Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 321 of 340), Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 690 of 725) and Q4 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 245 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Korean Journal of Sport Science 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 Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.136, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Korean Journal of Sport Science is published by Korea Institute of Sport Science. Its print ISSN is 1598-2920 and its online ISSN is 2233-7938.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Korean Journal of Sport Science has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #301 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Korean Journal of Sport Science published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 85. 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 35 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (94.3%), United States (2.9%) and China (1.4%). 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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