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South African Journal of Sports Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by Academy of Science of South Africa.
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ISSN 1015-5163Verify ISSN ↗2078-516XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academy of Science of South Africa
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 170 / 257 | 34th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 233 / 340 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
South African Journal of Sports Medicine is Q3 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 170 of 257) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 233 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Sports Medicine 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 1.4, quartile Q3, 34th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.402, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
South African Journal of Sports Medicine is published by Academy of Science of South Africa. Its print ISSN is 1015-5163 and its online ISSN is 2078-516X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Sports Medicine has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
South African Journal of Sports Medicine published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 50. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (71.2%), United Kingdom (9.9%) and Netherlands (3%). 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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