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Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 0195-9131Verify ISSN ↗1530-0315Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 108 / 257 | 58th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 156 / 340 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 108 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 156 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.481, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 280.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 0195-9131 and its online ISSN is 1530-0315.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise has an h-index of 364 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #209 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise published 2,196 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 3,623. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (72.5%), Australia (4.7%) and France (3%). 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. 12 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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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