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Sports Medicine - Open

Publishing model:
Open access

Overview

Sports Medicine - Open provides an online, open access journal for the publication of research in the field of sport and exercise medicine. Like Springer’s flagship journal in the area, Sports Medicine, Sports Medicine - Open bridges the gap between science and practice in the promotion of exercise and health, and in the scientific assessment, study and understanding of sports performance. Sports Medicine - Open publishes reviews and original research in areas such as sports injury prevention and treatment, exercise for health, nutrition, athletic conditioning and performance enhancement. Peer review is conducted using Editorial Manager®, supported by a database of international experts. This database is shared with other Adis journals.

Open access

All articles published by Sports Medicine - Open are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

Authors of articles published in Sports Medicine - Open are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the Springer Nature journals' Open Access license agreements.

For authors who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, SpringerOpen can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us at Springeropen Info info@springeropen.com if further information is needed.

Article-processing charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. Manuscripts accepted for publication by the journal are subject to an article processing charge (APC). Details of the current APC, and open access funding and support services are available here

Editors
  • Roger Olney,
  • Steve McMillan

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
5.9 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
6.4 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
36 days
Downloads
2.3M (2025)

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
2198-9761
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. Baidu
  2. CLOCKSS
  3. CNKI
  4. CNPIEC
  5. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  6. Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  7. DOAJ
  8. Dimensions
  9. EBSCO
  10. EMBASE
  11. Gale
  12. Google Scholar
  13. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  14. Naver
  15. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  16. Ovid Discovery
  17. Portico
  18. ProQuest
  19. PubMedCentral
  20. SCImago
  21. SCOPUS
  22. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  23. Semantic Scholar
  24. TD Net Discovery Service
  25. Wanfang
  26. eLibrary.ru
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