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Sport Management Education Journal

Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. · United States · Est. 2007

ISSN2163-2367

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.341

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.885

Total Worksi

261

Total Citationsi

2,227

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.51

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education & Educational Research; Education; Strategy and Management; Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2007

Annual Volume~ 19 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications261

Publisher OrgHuman Kinetics

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2163-2367

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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

115

2019

228

2020

145

2021

140

2022

2023

2024

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.

EducationQ3

Strategy and ManagementQ3

Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality ManagementQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education & Educational Research

Scopus Categories

Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality ManagementStrategy and ManagementEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Sports, Gender, and SocietySport and Mega-Event ImpactsSports Analytics and PerformanceSport Psychology and PerformanceManagement and Marketing EducationAthletic Training and EducationPhysical Education and PedagogyEducational Games and GamificationSports injuries and preventionMotivation and Self-Concept in Sports

Frequently asked questions about Sport Management Education Journal

Is Sport Management Education Journal a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Sport Management Education Journal: 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 Education Journal?

Sport Management Education Journal 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 0.51.

Is Sport Management Education Journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Sport Management Education Journal is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Sport Management Education Journal?