About this journal
Aims and scope
The Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal that welcomes research, reviews and commentaries. The journal is of interest to orthopedic surgeons and specialists, sports medicine physicians, athletic trainers, team physicians and physical therapists.
Topics covered by the journal include:
- Orthopedic sports medicine
- Basic science relevant to clinical sports medicine
- Epidemiology of sports injuries
- The female athlete
- Joint injury
- Rehabilitation and training
- Paralympic sport
- Injury prevention
- Older adult and elderly sport participation
- Sport psychology
The Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 119K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.835 (2023) SNIP
- 0.600 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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Journal metrics in brief
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.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Imhoff, Department of Orthopaedic Sport Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Editorial Board:
Professor Julien Baker, Department of Sport, and Physical Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Professor Henning Boecker, Professor and Head, Division of Clinical Functional Imaging, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Professor Malcolm Collins, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Devon Dobrosielski, Kinesiology, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA
Professor Mark Hutchinson, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Professor Deiary Kader, Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Knee Surgeon Arthroscopy, Arthroplasty and Sport Injuries, Academic Unit SW London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, Epsom, Surrey, UK
Professor Jon Karlsson, Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
Dr Vikas Khanduja, Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Professor, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Research Lead (Elective), Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Dr Pantelis T Nikolaidis, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece
Dr Robert T Rubin, Psychiatry Faculty, Community Memorial Health System/Ventura County Medical Center, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Professor Dr. Kristian Samuelsson, Orthopedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
Professor Kerry Stewart, Clinical and Research Exercise Physiology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Mr David Wales, Physiotherapy Department, North London Physiotherapy, London, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Pubmed (NLM)
PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)
Open access
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. 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.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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