Official Organ of German Association for Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP), Continuing Education Body of the Association of Austrian Sports Physicians
The German Journal of Sports Medicine is directed to translational science and clinical practice of Sports Medicine and its adjacent fields, which investigate the influence of physical activity, exercise, training and sports, as well as a lack of exercise affecting healthy people and patients of all age-groups. It addresses implications for prevention, diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation and physical training as well as the entire Sports Medicine and research in sports science, physiology and biomechanics.
The Journal is the leading and most widely read German journal in the field of Sports Medicine. Readers are physicians, physiologists and sports scientists as well as physiotherapists, coaches, sport managers, and athletes. The journal offers to the scientific community online open access to its scientific content and online communication platform.
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- Research Alert
- Focus On: Sports Science & Medicine
- SciVerse Scopus
- CrossRef
- EBSCO SPORTDiscus
- Google Scholar
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
SJR - Scimago Journal and Country Rank 2024
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.
