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Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0270-1367Verify ISSN ↗2168-3824Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 54 / 257 | 79th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 80 / 340 | 76th | Q1 |
| Nephrology | 23 / 88 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 54 of 257), Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 80 of 340) and Q2 in Nephrology (rank 23 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.773, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 111.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0270-1367 and its online ISSN is 2168-3824.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport has an h-index of 156 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 150. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.5%), Brazil (19.5%) and China (8.4%).
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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