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Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Blackwell Munksgaard.
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ISSN 0905-7188Verify ISSN ↗1600-0838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Blackwell Munksgaard
Cost to publish: About US$4,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 17 / 257 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 26 / 340 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 17 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 26 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.525, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 158.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,550 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.
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports is published by Blackwell Munksgaard. Its print ISSN is 0905-7188 and its online ISSN is 1600-0838.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports has an h-index of 191 and a 2-year mean of 4.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports published 211 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 300. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (13.1%), Japan (10.9%) and Spain (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 11 retracted papers are recorded (2.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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