Open Access Journal

• The German Journal of Sports Medicine <Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin> is an Open Access Journal according to the standards of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/licensing-examples/#by-nc-sa

Issue 1/2025 → planned date of publishing March 2025

Issue 2/2025 → planned date of publishing April 2025

Issue 3/2025 → planned date of publishin May 2025

Issue 4/2025 → planned date of publishing June 2025

Issue 5/2025 → planned date of publishing August 2025

Issue 6/2025 → planned date of publishing October 2025

Issue 7/2025 → planned date of publishing November 2025

New Releases 2023!

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The SJR - Scimago Journal & Country Rank 2022 has been released. The German Journal of Sports Medicine is now ranked higher in 2 of 3 categories! In 2020, the Journal promoted from Quartile 4 into Quartile 3 in "Orthopedics and Sports Medicine" and also in "Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation".

The respective ranks are:

- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy und Rehabilitaion:
#46th percentile of 226 journals in the SJR - Scimago Rank, and, in the Scimago Journal & Country Rank the rank has improved in 2022 by 37 places.

- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine:
#40th percentile of 298 journals in the SJR - Scimago Rank, and, in the Scimago Journal & Country Rank the rank has improved in 2023 by 41 places.

Our H-Index rose from 19 (in 2019) to an index of 23 (in 2023).

The SJR 2021 is now 0.272 (compared to 2020: 0,23; 2019: 0.16; 2018: 0.14; 2017: 0.13)

Cites/Doc. Factor

Our Cites/Docs (2 years) factor is comparative to the impact factor, which rose unto a current factor of 1.021.