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Sports Coaching Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2164-0629Verify ISSN ↗2164-0637Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 62 / 744 | 91st | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 145 / 456 | 68th | Q2 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 54 / 156 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Sports Coaching Review is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 62 of 744), Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 145 of 456) and Q2 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 54 of 156), by CiteScore 2025.
Sports Coaching Review 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.096, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
Sports Coaching Review is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2164-0629 and its online ISSN is 2164-0637.
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.
Sports Coaching Review has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 2.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Sports Coaching Review published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 42. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (50.5%), United States (8.1%) and Ireland (7.6%). 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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