Journal of Physical Activity and Health
Last updated ISSN 1543-3080
Journal of Physical Activity and Health is published by Human Kinetics in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Physical Activity and Health concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Physical Activity and Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
Key facts
| Publisher | Human Kinetics |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1543-3080, 1543-5474 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,846 |
| Publishing since | 2004 |
| Journal website | www.humankinetics.com/JPAH |
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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