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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. This is achieved via the Springer Open Choice™ initiative. More information about this optional route to open access and the associated article processing charge can be found by clicking on the ‘Learn about publishing Open Access with us’ link below.

Sports Medicine offers a range of additional features designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content. Each article is accompanied by a Key Points summary, giving a time-efficient overview of the content to a wide readership. Articles may be accompanied by plain language summaries to assist readers who have some knowledge of, but not in-depth expertise in, the area to understand the scientific content and overall implications of the article. The journal also provides the option to include various types of digital features including animated abstracts, video abstracts, slide decks, audio slides, instructional videos, infographics, podcasts and animations. All additional features are peer reviewed to the same high standard as the article itself. Peer review is conducted using Editorial Manager®, supported by a database of international experts. This database is shared with other Adis journals.

Editors
  • Steve McMillan,
  • Roger Olney
Impact factor
9.8 (2022)
5 year impact factor
12.6 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
17 days
Downloads
4,279,799 (2023)

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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. Dimensions
  8. EBSCO
  9. EMCare
  10. Google Scholar
  11. IFIS Publishing
  12. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  13. Medline
  14. Naver
  15. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  16. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  17. Portico
  18. ProQuest
  19. SCImago
  20. SCOPUS
  21. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  22. Semantic Scholar
  23. TD Net Discovery Service
  24. UGC-CARE List (India)
  25. Wanfang
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