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Sports Health

Sage Periodicals Press · United States · Est. 1983

ISSN1941-0921

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

1.264

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.793

Total Worksi

1,695

Total Citationsi

49,151

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.08

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Sport Sciences; Orthopedics and Sports Medicine; Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1983

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,695

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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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?

Sage Periodicals Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1941-0921

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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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

2.8k

2019

2.9k

2020

136

2021

114

1.4k

2022

131

1.2k

2023

153

796

2024

125

188

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.

Orthopedics and Sports MedicineQ1

Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and RehabilitationQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Sport Sciences

Scopus Categories

Orthopedics and Sports MedicinePhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Sports injuries and preventionKnee injuries and reconstruction techniquesShoulder Injury and TreatmentLower Extremity Biomechanics and PathologiesSports Performance and TrainingTraumatic Brain Injury ResearchTotal Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesTendon Structure and TreatmentSport Psychology and PerformanceFoot and Ankle Surgery

Frequently asked questions about Sports Health

Is Sports Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Sports Health: 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 Sports Health?

Sports Health 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 2.08.

Is Sports Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Sports Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Sports Health?