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Sporting Traditions is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), ABDC C. Published by Australian Society for Sports History Publications.
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ISSN 0813-2577Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Australian Society for Sports History Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 983 / 1936 | 49th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 625 / 744 | 16th | Q4 |
| Health (social science) | 362 / 387 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Sporting Traditions is Q3 in History (rank 983 of 1936), Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 625 of 744) and Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 362 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Sporting Traditions 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 0.4, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 4.
Sporting Traditions is published by Australian Society for Sports History Publications. Its ISSN is 0813-2577.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
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.
Sporting Traditions has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Sporting Traditions published 3 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 29. 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.
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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