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Sport Management Review

Taylor and Francis Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 1998

ISSN1441-3523eISSN1839-2083

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.568

H-Indexi

103

SNIPi

2.291

Total Worksi

1,010

Total Citationsi

45,303

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.72

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism; Management; Business and International Management; Management Science and Operations Research; Marketing; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Sports Science; Strategy and Management; Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1998

Annual Volume~ 37 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,010

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1441-3523 / 1839-2083

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2.4k

2019

1.1k

2020

1.3k

2021

666

2022

401

2023

253

2024

118

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Business and International ManagementQ1

Management Science and Operations ResearchQ1

MarketingQ1

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ1

Sports ScienceQ1

Strategy and ManagementQ1

Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality ManagementQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & TourismManagement

Scopus Categories

Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality ManagementSports ScienceStrategy and ManagementOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementManagement Science and Operations ResearchBusiness and International ManagementMarketing

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Sport and Mega-Event ImpactsSports, Gender, and SocietySports Analytics and PerformanceNonprofit Sector and VolunteeringConsumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationRecreation, Leisure, Wilderness ManagementSport Psychology and PerformanceMotivation and Self-Concept in SportsDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesCustomer Service Quality and Loyalty

Frequently asked questions about Sport Management Review

Is Sport Management Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Sport Management Review: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Sport Management Review?

Sport Management Review is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.72.

Is Sport Management Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Sport Management Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.