The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Last updated ISSN 1064-8011
The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sports Performance and Training
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics
- Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Occupational Health and Performance
Key facts
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1064-8011, 1533-4287 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 11,623 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/pages/default.aspx |
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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