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Sports Medicine 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. Regular features include: sports injury prevention and treatment; exercise for health; drugs in sport and recommendations for training and nutrition.

Designed as a superb reference source for physicians, sports medicine specialists, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, team doctors and trainers alike, Sports Medicine focuses on definitive and comprehensive review articles that interpret and evaluate the current literature to provide the rationale for, and application of, research findings.

Sports Medicine also welcomes the submission of high-quality original research in the above fields.

As a hybrid journal, Sports Medicine does not charge authors to publish using the traditional subscription-based publishing route, but does offer the option to publish accepted articles open access if authors so wish or if their funders require (more information).

Sports Medicine offers a range of additional features designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content (more information).

Contact: For more information about the journal, please contact Steve McMillan at steve.mcmillan@springer.com

Editors
  • Steve McMillan,
  • Roger Olney

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
11.0 (2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
13.7 (2025)
Submission to first decision (median)
31 days
Downloads
5.8M (2025)

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  • Digital Features

    Sports Medicine is able to host a range of digital features, with a number of options available to authors.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1179-2035
Print ISSN
0112-1642
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. Baidu
  3. CAB Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  8. Dimensions
  9. EBSCO
  10. EMCare
  11. FSTA Publishing
  12. Google Scholar
  13. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  14. Medline
  15. Naver
  16. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  17. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  18. Ovid Discovery
  19. Portico
  20. ProQuest
  21. SCImago
  22. SCOPUS
  23. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  24. Semantic Scholar
  25. TD Net Discovery Service
  26. Wanfang
  27. eLibrary.ru
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