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Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1740-8989Verify ISSN ↗1742-5786Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 4 / 257 | 98th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 8 / 340 | 97th | Q1 |
| Education | 48 / 1698 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.9.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 4 of 257), Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 8 of 340) and Q1 in Education (rank 48 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 11.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.391, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 65.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-8989 and its online ISSN is 1742-5786.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 3.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 87. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (15.9%), Australia (10.9%) and Spain (9.8%).
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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