Journal of Human Kinetics
Last updated ISSN 1640-5544
Journal of Human Kinetics is published by De Gruyter Open in medicine. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Human Kinetics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sports Performance and Training
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Sports Analytics and Performance
Key facts
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1640-5544, 1899-7562 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,904 |
| Publishing since | 1820 |
| Journal website | www.johk.awf.katowice.pl |
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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