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Sports Medicine and Health Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2097-6291Verify ISSN ↗2666-3376Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 22 / 172 | 87th | Q1 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 44 / 257 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 64 / 340 | 81st | Q1 |
| Physiology (medical) | 46 / 117 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
Sports Medicine and Health Science is Q1 in Rehabilitation (rank 22 of 172), Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 44 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 64 of 340), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sports Medicine and Health Science 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.847, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Sports Medicine and Health Science is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2097-6291 and its online ISSN is 2666-3376.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sports Medicine and Health Science has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 3.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Sports Medicine and Health Science published 82 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.6%), China (24.3%) and Spain (6.8%).
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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