Journal of Amateur Sport
Last updated ISSN 2372-8078
Journal of Amateur Sport is published by University of Kansas in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Amateur Sport concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Sports Analytics and Performance
- Athletic Training and Education
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Kansas |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2372-8078 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Not recorded |
| Articles published | 147 |
| Publishing since | 2015 |
| Journal website | journals.ku.edu/index.php/jams/index |
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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