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Sport Sciences for Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l..
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ISSN 1824-7490Verify ISSN ↗1825-1234Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l.
Cost to publish: About US$4,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 193 / 340 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Sport Sciences for Health is Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 193 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Sport Sciences for Health 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.438, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Sport Sciences for Health is published by Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 1824-7490 and its online ISSN is 1825-1234.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sport Sciences for Health has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #201 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Sport Sciences for Health published 270 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Brazil (18.5%), Iran (9%) and Türkiye (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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