Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly

Aims & Scope

APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability.

Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance.

The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting.

Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span.

Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology.

Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.465

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12294

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	192

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Health Professions, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Clumsiness in Adolescence: Educational, Motor, and Social Outcomes of Motor Delay Detected at 5 Years

  Citation: 272

  Authors: Marja H., Mary M., Timo P.

• Inclusion in Physical Education: A Review of the Literature from 1995-2005

  Citation: 216

  Authors: Martin E., Iva

• Social and Affective Problems of Children Who Are Clumsy: How Early Do They Begin?

  Citation: 195

  Authors: Marina M., Alex F.

• Inclusive Physical Education from the Perspective of Students with Physical Disabilities

  Citation: 187

  Authors: Donna L., E. Jane

• A Test of the Activity Deficit Hypothesis with Children With Movement Difficulties

  Citation: 167

  Authors: Marcel, E. Jane, Linda P., Janice L. Causgrove, Sandy K.E.

• Inclusion Understood From the Perspectives of Children With Disability

  Citation: 154

  Authors: Nancy, E. Jane

• The Relationship of Motor Skills and Social Communicative Skills in School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

  Citation: 149

  Authors: Megan, Catherine, Dale A.

• Factors Influencing the Physical Activity Levels of Youths with Physical and Sensory Disabilities

  Citation: 149

  Authors: Patricia E., Oded

• Physical Activity of Youth with Intellectual Disability: Review and Research Agenda

  Citation: 135

  Authors: Georgia C., Heidi I., Viviene A.

• Relationship between Motor Skill and Body Mass Index in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children

  Citation: 134

  Authors: Eva, Benedicte, Ilse, Matthieu

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