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Pedagogy of Physical Culture and Sports is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Iermakov Sergii Sidorovich.
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Publisher: Iermakov Sergii Sidorovich
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 593 / 1698 | 65th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 106 / 257 | 58th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 150 / 340 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Pedagogy of Physical Culture and Sports is Q2 in Education (rank 593 of 1698), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 106 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 150 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Pedagogy of Physical Culture and Sports 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.297, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$170 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.
Pedagogy of Physical Culture and Sports is published by Iermakov Sergii Sidorovich. Its ISSN is 2664-9837.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pedagogy of Physical Culture and Sports has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #467 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Pedagogy of Physical Culture and Sports published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 64. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (30.9%), Türkiye (9.8%) and Ukraine (8.7%).
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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