Journal of Sport Management
Last updated ISSN 0888-4773
Journal of Sport Management is published by Human Kinetics 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 Management concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Sports Analytics and Performance
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Legal and Regulatory Analysis
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Military Technology and Strategies
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
Key facts
| Publisher | Human Kinetics |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0888-4773, 1543-270X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,541 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | www.humankinetics.com/JSM |
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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