Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
Last updated ISSN 0094-8705
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is published by Taylor & Francis 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 the Philosophy of Sport concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Doping in Sports
- Sports Analytics and Performance
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Hormonal and reproductive studies
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Digital Games and Media
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0094-8705, 1543-2939 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,007 |
| Publishing since | 1974 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjps20/current |
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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