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Sports Medicine - Open is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2198-9761Verify ISSN ↗2199-1170Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 6 / 257 | 97th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 10 / 340 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Sports Medicine - Open is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 6 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 10 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Sports Medicine - Open 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.015, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 64.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,290 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 - Open is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2198-9761 and its online ISSN is 2199-1170.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sports Medicine - Open has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 6.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Sports Medicine - Open published 166 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Australia (12.4%), China (10.7%) and Germany (9.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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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