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Sport Marketing Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.1), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 1061-6934Verify ISSN ↗1557-2528Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy and Management | 270 / 506 | 46th | Q3 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 87 / 156 | 44th | Q3 |
| Marketing | 131 / 221 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 2017–2018), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.1.
Sport Marketing Quarterly is Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 270 of 506), Q3 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 87 of 156) and Q3 in Marketing (rank 131 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
Sport Marketing Quarterly 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.578, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Sport Marketing Quarterly is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 1061-6934 and its online ISSN is 1557-2528.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sport Marketing Quarterly has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 1.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #294 of 476 Scopus journals in Strategy and Management.
Sport Marketing Quarterly published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 34. 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 71 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (62.1%), Canada (7.2%) and China (5.4%). 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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