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Open Sports Sciences Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5). Published by Bentham Science Publishers.
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ISSN 1875-399XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 168 / 257 | 34th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 230 / 340 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 2009–2010), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Open Sports Sciences Journal is Q3 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 168 of 257) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 230 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Open Sports Sciences Journal 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 34th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
Open Sports Sciences Journal is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its ISSN is 1875-399X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Open Sports Sciences Journal has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Open Sports Sciences Journal published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 33. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Portugal (16.8%), United States (10.4%) and Thailand (8%).
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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