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Sports Medicine: Research and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON).
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ISSN 2223-2524Verify ISSN ↗2587-9014Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 298 / 340 | 12th | Q4 |
| Rehabilitation | 151 / 172 | 12th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 70 / 78 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Sports Medicine: Research and Practice is Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 298 of 340), Q4 in Rehabilitation (rank 151 of 172) and Q4 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 70 of 78), by CiteScore 2025.
Sports Medicine: Research and Practice is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 12th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.159, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Sports Medicine: Research and Practice is published by National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON). Its print ISSN is 2223-2524 and its online ISSN is 2587-9014.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sports Medicine: Research and Practice has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #216 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Sports Medicine: Research and Practice published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 75. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Russia (81.4%), Iran (4.6%) and Indonesia (3.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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