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JournalQ1· SCImago 2025

Sports Medicine

ISSN 0112-1642

• Q1Quartile
• 4.00SJR
• 262h-index
• 9papers summarised

About this journal

Sports Medicine is a Q1 journal by SCImago Journal Rank (2025 data), with an SJR of 4.00 and an h-index of 262. Most of its papers in the Pofolia pool fall under Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Pofolia holds AI summaries of 9 paper(s) from this journal; the most cited is “Monitoring Training Load to Understand Fatigue in Athletes” (1762 citations).

The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's percentile position within its subject area by SCImago Journal Rank; Q1 is the top 25%. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?

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Papers we summarise from this journal

• Monitoring Training Load to Understand Fatigue in Athletes2014 · 1762 citations
• The Mental Health of Elite Athletes: A Narrative Systematic Review2016 · 1153 citations
• Differential Effects of Aerobic Exercise, Resistance Training and Combined Exercise Modalities on Cholesterol and the Lipid Profile: Review, Synthesis and Recommendations2013 · 805 citations
• Methodological Considerations for Studies in Sport and Exercise Science with Women as Participants: A Working Guide for Standards of Practice for Research on Women2021 · 672 citations
• Effects of Balance Training on Balance Performance in Healthy Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis2015 · 483 citations
• Towards Reflexivity: Observing the Estimation of Replicability of Sports and Exercise Science Research2026 · 1 citations
• Can Resistance Training-Induced Skeletal Muscle Growth Improve Local Muscular Endurance?2026 · 0 citations
• Effect Size Calculation Procedures in Exercise Intervention Meta-Analyses: A Scoping Review2026 · 0 citations
• Effects of Resistance Training on Muscle Hypertrophy in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis2026 · 0 citations

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