BiomedicalPublications

Sports Medicine and Health Science

Elsevier BV·China·ISSN 2666-3376

Open accessIn DOAJNo publication chargeMedicine

Sports Medicine and Health Science is published by Elsevier BV as an open access journal (ISSN 2666-3376). The journal lists no article processing charge. Typical time to publication is 8 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 27. Primary field: No publication charge. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

No charge

DOAJ records no article processing charge for this journal.

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Time to publication

8 wks

Fast for a peer-reviewed journal — check what review depth that implies.

h-index

27

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.0

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Sports Medicine and Health Science does not charge an article processing charge according to its DOAJ record. Journals in this position are usually funded by a society, a university or a national body.

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Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

7 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Sports Medicine and Health Science publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Cardiovascular and exercise physiologyExercise and Physiological ResponsesPhysical Activity and HealthSports Performance and TrainingSports injuries and preventionObesity, Physical Activity, DietHeart Rate Variability and Autonomic ControlMuscle metabolism and nutritionMuscle Physiology and DisordersAdipose Tissue and Metabolism

Publication record

Indexed articles373
Total citations5,203
i10-index102
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2019
All ISSNs2666-3376

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.