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Pediatric Exercise Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc..
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ISSN 0899-8493Verify ISSN ↗1543-2920Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 147 / 351 | 58th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 125 / 257 | 51st | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 180 / 340 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Pediatric Exercise Science is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 147 of 351), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 125 of 257) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 180 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Pediatric Exercise Science 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.553, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 78.
Pediatric Exercise Science is published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 0899-8493 and its online ISSN is 1543-2920.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pediatric Exercise Science has an h-index of 99 and a 2-year mean of 1.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Pediatric Exercise Science published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 76. 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 United States (20.5%), United Kingdom (17.9%) and Brazil (7.8%).
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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