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Sport Management Education Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc..
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ISSN 1938-6974Verify ISSN ↗2163-2367Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 680 / 1698 | 59th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 289 / 506 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 99 / 156 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Sport Management Education Journal is Q2 in Education (rank 680 of 1698), Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 289 of 506) and Q3 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 99 of 156), by CiteScore 2025.
Sport Management Education Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.341, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Sport Management Education Journal is published by Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. Its print ISSN is 1938-6974 and its online ISSN is 2163-2367.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sport Management Education Journal has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,076 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Sport Management Education Journal published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 25. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (86%), Canada (7%) and Germany (2.5%). 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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