Journal of Sport History
Last updated ISSN 0094-1700
Journal of Sport History is published by University of Illinois Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Sport History concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- American Sports and Literature
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Sports Analytics and Performance
- American History and Culture
- Doping in Sports
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Race, History, and American Society
- Digital Games and Media
- Canadian Identity and History
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0094-1700, 2155-8450 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,198 |
| Publishing since | 1800 |
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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