About
Acceptance rate:
45%
Time to first decision with review:
54 days*
Acceptance to publication:
16 days*
Impact Factor:
3.9
Citescore:
7.1
2023 total content views:
412,185
Aims and scope
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine is an open access journal covering all aspects of sport and exercise medicine from physiology to return to play. The journal aims to publish original articles considered by peer reviewers to be coherent and technically sound, ensuring that the latest research is disseminated rapidly to a global audience.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine is the open access companion journal to the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The journal adheres to the highest possible industry standards concerning publication ethics
Editorial Board
For information about the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Ownership
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine is co-owned by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine and BMJ.
Journal information
Publication Model
Open access
Frequency
Continuous online publication
Launch date
2015
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, PubMed Central, DOAJ, Google Scholar
Impact Factor
5.0
Peer Review Model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
ISSN
2055-7647
Journal Statistics 2024
Acceptance rate: 45%
Speed
Time to first decision: 54 days (median)
Time from acceptance to publication: 16 days (median)
Impact
Impact Factor category: Sport Sciences
Impact Factor (JCR): 3.9
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.19
Eigenfactor: 0.00545
Citescore: 7.1
Citescore rank: 26/321
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.253
Reach
2023 total content views: 412,185
2023 total Altmetric mentions: 3,595
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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Contact information
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Affiliations
Corresponding authors who are members of one of the following twenty-five organisations will receive a discount off the article publishing charge (APC) as detailed:
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) - 15%
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports and Exercise Medicine (ACPSEM) - 15%
Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSP) - 15%
British Association for Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) - 25%
Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM) - 15%
Danish Society of Sports Physiotherapy - 15%
European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP) - 15%
Gruppo di Interesse Specialistico dell'AIFI (GISPT) - 15%
The Norwegian Association of Sports Medicine and Physical Activity (NIMF) - 15%
The Norwegian Sports Physiotherapy Association (FFI) - 15%
Physio Austria - 15%
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland: Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine - 15%
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Sportmedizin (SGSM) - 15%
Society of Sports Therapists (SST) - 15%
South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) - 15%
Sports Doctors Australia (SDrA) - 15%
Sports Medicine Association of Singapore (SMAS) – 15%
Sports Physiotherapy Canada (SPC) – 15%
Sports Physiotherapy New Zealand (SPNZ) - 15%
Swiss Sport Physiotherapy Association (SSPA) - 15%
Vereniging voor Sportgeneeskunde (VSG) - 15%
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