ACSMʼs Health & Fitness Journal
Last updated ISSN 1091-5397
ACSMʼs Health & Fitness Journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in ACSMʼs Health & Fitness Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Physical Activity and Health
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Sports Performance and Training
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Pharmacy and Medical Practices
Key facts
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1091-5397, 1536-593X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,525 |
| Publishing since | 1997 |
| Journal website | journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/pages/default.as |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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