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Impact Factors of
Journals in Sport and Exercise Science, 1999-2001
Will
G Hopkins
Sportscience 7,
sportsci.org/jour/03/wghif.htm, 2003 (2205 words)
Will G Hopkins, Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology,
Auckland 1020, New Zealand. Email.
Reviewer: John A Hawley, Medical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria
3083, Australia.
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Exercise and sport-science journals maintaining their impact in the most recent citation reports include Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (current impact factor 2.4), American Journal of Sports Medicine (2.1), Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (1.6), European Journal of Applied Physiology (1.3), International Journal of Sports Medicine (1.3), International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism (1.2), and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (1.2). Journals on the rise include Journal of Applied Physiology (2.6), Sports Medicine (2.2), Journal of Biomechanics (1.9), Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology (1.4), and British Journal of Sports Medicine (1.0), while Journal of Sports Sciences (0.9) and Journal of Applied Biomechanics (0.3) have fallen substantially since last year. KEYWORDS: citation, publication. Reprint pdf · Reprint doc · Spreadsheet |
Update July 2003: the table and spreadsheet now include impact factors for 2002. See also the In-brief item on impact factors in the current issue.
At the end of 2002 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) published its annual update of Journal Citation Reports. The journal impact factor, based on citations to journal articles published in 2000 and 2001, is probably the most interesting statistic in these reports. In an earlier article at this site I explained the meaning and significance of the impact factor and provided the values of the impact factor for journals in which researchers in our disciplines could publish their research. I now provide the most recent values of the impact factor for these journals, along with the values for the previous two years (Table 1). You can access impact factors for other journals and other citation-related statistics at the ISI site, but only if your institution has a subscription.
In terms of increased impact, the winners this year are Journal of Applied Physiology (was 2.3, now 2.6), Sports Medicine (was 1.8, now 2.2), Journal of Biomechanics (was 1.5, now 1.9), Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology (was 1.1, now 1.4), and British Journal of Sports Medicine (was 0.7, now 1.0). Journals that have lost some ground include Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine (was 1.3, now 1.0), Journal of Sports Sciences (was 1.3, now 0.9), and Journal of Applied Biomechanics (was 0.8, now 0.3).
On average, journals with impact factors in the range of 1 to 5 showed a trivial increase in impact (0.1). Thus, there is little growth in our field overall. However, the typical variation in the change from journal to journal was ±0.3, reflecting substantial movement in impact of disciplines and/or journals within the field.
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Table
1: Impact factors (citations
per article per year) of journals in exercise and sport science, including
key multidisciplinary journals, for the years 1999 through 2002. Journals
without an impact factor are not in ISI's science or social sciences
databases, either because the journal is too new or the factor is too low. A
question mark indicates absence of an impact factor for a journal previously
in the database. Download an enhanced version of this
table as an Excel spreadsheet. |
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1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
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0.3 |
0.3 |
ACSM's Health and
Fitness Journal |
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1.4 |
1.7 |
1.7 |
2.0 |
Acta Physiologica
Scandinavica |
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0.6 |
1.3 |
1.3 |
1.5 |
Acta Psychologica |
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1.3 |
1.3 |
1.0 |
1.2 |
Adapted Physical
Activity Quarterly |
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2.0 |
2.4 |
2.9 |
2.8 |
American Heart Journal |
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2.4 |
2.8 |
2.6 |
2.3 |
American Journal of
Cardiology |
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4.0 |
5.0 |
5.0 |
5.6 |
American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition |
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4.0 |
3.9 |
3.9 |
4.2 |
American Journal of
Epidemiology |
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1.6 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
1.1 |
American Journal of
Health Promotion |
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0.8 |
0.7 |
1.0 |
0.8 |
American Journal of
Human Biology |
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2.1 |
2.7 |
2.8 |
2.6 |
American Journal of
Hypertension |
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0.9 |
0.9 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
American Journal of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
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3.0 |
3.2 |
3.3 |
3.6 |
American Journal of Physiology:
Endocrin Metab |
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2.7 |
3.2 |
3.2 |
3.4 |
American Journal of Physiology:
Heart Circul Physiol |
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2.5 |
2.8 |
2.4 |
3.2 |
American Journal of Physiology: Reg
Integ Comp Physiol |
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3.0 |
3.3 |
3.0 |
3.3 |
American Journal of
Public Health |
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5.5 |
5.4 |
6.0 |
6.6 |
American Journal of
Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine |
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2.3 |
2.1 |
2.1 |
2.3 |
American Journal of Sports
Medicine |
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6.0 |
6.9 |
6.3 |
6.1 |
American Psychologist |
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1.1 |
0.7 |
1.0 |
1.1 |
Annals of Nutrition and
Metabolism |
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1.0 |
1.4 |
1.6 |
1.7 |
Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences |
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5.5 |
7.1 |
7.8 |
7.9 |
Annual Review of
Nutrition |
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20 |
19 |
13 |
16 |
Annual Review of
Physiology |
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0.4 |
0.6 |
0.7 |
0.8 |
Applied Ergonomics |
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0.8 |
0.6 |
0.7 |
0.6 |
Applied Psychological
Measurement |
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1.0 |
0.5 |
0.8 |
? |
Applied
Psychology-International Review |
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1.1 |
1.4 |
1.4 |
1.3 |
Archives of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation |
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0.5 |
0.8 |
? |
? |
Archives of Physiology
and Biochemistry |
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1.6 |
1.4 |
1.1 |
1.8 |
Arthritis Care and
Research |
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3.4 |
Arthritis Research |
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1.3 |
1.2 |
1.3 |
1.8 |
Arthroscopy |
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2.9 |
3.4 |
3.5 |
3.3 |
Atherosclerosis |
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8.3 |
Atherosclerosis
Supplements |
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0.09 |
0.1 |
Athletic Therapy Today |
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0.2 |
0.4 |
Australian Journal of
Physiotherapy |
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0.5 |
0.7 |
0.7 |
0.7 |
Aviation Space and
Environmental Medicine |
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0.9 |
0.8 |
? |
? |
Behavior Research
Methods, Instruments, and Computers |
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11 |
14 |
17 |
8.7 |
Behavioral and Brain
Sciences |
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2.7 |
2.8 |
2.9 |
2.8 |
Behavioral Neuroscience |
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3.2 |
2.7 |
2.9 |
2.9 |
Biochemical and
Biophysical Research Communications |
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6.3 |
5.4 |
4.7 |
Biochimica Biophysica
Acta-Bioenergetics |
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2.6 |
1.8 |
2.4 |
1.8 |
Biochimica Biophysica
Acta-General Subjects |
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1.2 |
1.1 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
Biological Cybernetics |
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0.3 |
0.2 |
Biology of Sport |
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2.3 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.4 |
Brain Research |
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6.7 |
9.2 |
7.7 |
6.2 |
Brain Research Reviews |
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0.9 |
0.7 |
1.0 |
1.2 |
British Journal of
Sports Medicine |
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3.4 |
5.3 |
6.6 |
7.6 |
British Medical Journal
(BMJ) |
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1.3 |
1.1 |
1.4 |
1.2 |
Canadian Journal of
Applied Physiology |