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Sports Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1369-7072Verify ISSN ↗1460-2687Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 127 / 257 | 50th | Q2 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 200 / 397 | 49th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 184 / 340 | 46th | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 406 / 740 | 45th | Q3 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 246 / 408 | 39th | Q3 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 232 / 342 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Sports Engineering is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 127 of 257), Q3 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 200 of 397) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 184 of 340), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Sports Engineering 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.365, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 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.
Sports Engineering is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1369-7072 and its online ISSN is 1460-2687.
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 Engineering has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 2.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Sports Engineering published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 49. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.8%), United Kingdom (16.4%) and Germany (9.9%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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