British Journal of Sports Medicine
Last updated ISSN 0306-3674
British Journal of Sports Medicine is published by BMJ in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in British Journal of Sports Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Sports Performance and Training
- Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Physical Activity and Health
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
Key facts
| Publisher | BMJ |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0306-3674, 1473-0480 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 12,086 |
| Publishing since | 1904 |
| Journal website | bjsm.bmj.com/ |
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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