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Sports Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 0112-1642Verify ISSN ↗1179-2035Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: About US$5,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 3 / 340 | 99th | Q1 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 3 / 257 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.4.
Sports Medicine is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 3 of 340) and Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 3 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Sports Medicine 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 20.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.065, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 262.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,790 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 Medicine is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 0112-1642 and its online ISSN is 1179-2035.
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 Medicine has an h-index of 320 and a 2-year mean of 8.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Sports Medicine published 213 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 277. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Australia (17.1%), United Kingdom (14.5%) and United States (12.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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.
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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