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Sociology of Sport Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), ABDC A, WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc..
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ISSN 0741-1235Verify ISSN ↗1543-2785Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 274 / 1530 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 62 / 257 | 76th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 94 / 340 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Sociology of Sport Journal is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 274 of 1530), Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 62 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 94 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociology of Sport Journal 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.881, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
Sociology of Sport Journal is published by Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0741-1235 and its online ISSN is 1543-2785.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sociology of Sport Journal has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 2.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #215 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Sociology of Sport Journal published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 65. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (53%), Canada (21.5%) and Australia (6.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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