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Sport History Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc..
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ISSN 1087-1659Verify ISSN ↗1543-2947Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 541 / 1936 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 217 / 257 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 2002, 1999), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Sport History Review is Q2 in History (rank 541 of 1936) and Q4 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 217 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Sport History Review is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
Sport History Review is published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1087-1659 and its online ISSN is 1543-2947.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sport History Review has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Sport History Review published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 28. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.5%), Canada (21.5%) and France (6%).
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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