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Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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ISSN 1179-1543Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dove Medical Press Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Manual Therapy | 6 / 22 | 75th | Q1 |
| Occupational Therapy | 9 / 33 | 74th | Q2 |
| Podiatry | 3 / 8 | 68th | Q2 |
| Optometry | 7 / 15 | 56th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 120 / 257 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 178 / 340 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine is Q1 in Complementary and Manual Therapy (rank 6 of 22), Q2 in Occupational Therapy (rank 9 of 33) and Q2 in Podiatry (rank 3 of 8), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.556, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,320 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd. Its ISSN is 1179-1543.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 6.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 22 Scopus journals in Complementary and Manual Therapy.
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 30. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.9%), Japan (13%) and Germany (8.3%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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