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Research in the Sociology of Sport is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 1476-2854Verify ISSN ↗2978-1760Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 422 / 744 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 875 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 258 / 315 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 2016–2020, 2012–2014), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Research in the Sociology of Sport is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 422 of 744), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 875 of 1530) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 258 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in the Sociology of Sport 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 1.1, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Research in the Sociology of Sport is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1476-2854 and its online ISSN is 2978-1760.
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.
Research in the Sociology of Sport has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #493 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Research in the Sociology of Sport published 24 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2008 with 44. 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.
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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