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Sports Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Periodicals Press.
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ISSN 1941-0921Verify ISSN ↗1941-7381Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Periodicals Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,400 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 | 22 / 257 | 91st | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 32 / 340 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Sports Health is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 22 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 32 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Sports Health is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.264, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,400 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 Health is published by Sage Periodicals Press. Its print ISSN is 1941-0921 and its online ISSN is 1941-7381.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sports Health has an h-index of 99 and a 2-year mean of 2.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Sports Health published 125 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 153. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (41.4%), Spain (6.7%) and Türkiye (6.3%).
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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