Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is the official research journal of the Association for Physical Education (afPE). The journal provides a forum for high quality educational research intended to have a high impact on both policy and practice for a national and international readership.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy publishes research that reports educational practices in all appropriate contexts including, but not limited to, school physical education, club sport, and active leisure programs. The journal considers papers that discuss a broad range of physical activities, including aquatics, dance, exercise, gymnastics, outdoor and adventure activities, meditative and martial arts and sport.
Pedagogy in these contexts refers to the interacting and interdependent components of knowledge and curriculum, learners and learning, and teachers/coaches, teaching/coaching and teacher/coach education. The journal particularly welcomes papers that consider the interactions of each of these components and their practice in specific contexts.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
356K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.9 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
4.2 (2023) 5 year IF
8.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.778 (2023) SNIP
1.273 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
0 days avg. from submission to first
decision
89 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
10 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
14% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Dr Ali Brian - University of South Carolina, USA Professor Ashley Casey - Loughborough University, UK Professor Jacqueline D. Goodway - The Ohio State University, USA Professor Leen Haerens - University of Ghent, Belgium Professor Peter Hastie - Auburn University, USA Professor Ann MacPhail - University of Limerick, Ireland Professor Kimberly L Oliver - New Mexico State University, USA Professor Mikael Quennerstedt - Örebro University, Sweden Dr Nalda Wainwright - University of Wales Trinity St David, UK
Editorial Board
Dr Dean Barker - Oslo Met University, Norway Dr Pamela Beach - SUNY Brockport, USA Dr Ed Cope - Loughorough University, UK Dr Katrien De Cocker - University of Ghent, Belgium Dr Javier Fernandez-Rio - Universidad de Oviedo, Spain Dr Katie Fitzpatrick - University of Auckland, New Zealand Dr Tim Fletcher - Brock University, Canada Dr Sara Flory - University of South Florida, USA Dr Luis Garcia-Gonzales - University of Zaragoza, Spain Dr Nancy Getchell - University of Delaware, USA Dr Victoria A Goodyear - University of Birmingham, UK Dr Jerraco Johnson - University of North Texas, USA Dr Dillon Landi - University of Queensland, Australia Dr Carla Luguetti - Victoria University, Australia Dr Athanasios Mouratidis - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Dr Deirdre Ni Chronin - Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland Dr Shane Pill - Flinders University, Australia Professor Dawn Penney - Edith Cowan University, Australia Dr Kirsten Petrie - University of Waikato, New Zealand Dr Dylan Scanlon - Deakin University, Australia Dr Jackie Beth Shilcutt - New Mexico State University, USA Dr Sue Sutherland - The Ohio State University, USA Dr Tristan Wallhead - University of Wyoming, USA
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
(2004 - current)
Formerly known as
European Journal of Physical Education
(1996 - 2003)
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