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South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS SSCI. Published by North-West Unversity.
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ISSN 0379-9069Verify ISSN ↗2960-2386Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: North-West Unversity
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1349 / 1698 | 20th | Q4 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 213 / 257 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation is Q4 in Education (rank 1349 of 1698) and Q4 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 213 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 21.
South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation is published by North-West Unversity. Its print ISSN is 0379-9069 and its online ISSN is 2960-2386.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,347 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 45. 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 41 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from South Africa (61%), Türkiye (11%) and Spain (4.9%). 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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