South African Journal of Sports Medicine
Last updated ISSN 1015-5163
South African Journal of Sports Medicine is published by South African Sports Medicine Association in medicine. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in South African Journal of Sports Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Sports Performance and Training
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
Key facts
| Publisher | South African Sports Medicine Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1015-5163, 2078-516X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,154 |
| Publishing since | 1970 |
| Journal website | journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/sajsm/index |
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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