Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

Aims & Scope

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and debate of qualitative research within sport and exercise psychology, sport sociology, sports coaching, and sports and exercise medicine.

Providing a forum for qualitative researchers within all the social scientific areas of sport, exercise, and health the journal offers researchers, practitioners, and students access to cutting edge empirical inquiry, scholarly dialogues, and the latest developments in qualitative methodologies and methods.

Open to all qualitative approaches, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health aims to be eclectic in content.

It publishes original empirical work that uses qualitative approaches as well as qualitative meta-syntheses and review articles on the methods and methodologies of qualitative research.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.2
2024	8.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	3.193

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	53

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	640

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1755

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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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Health Professions, Psychology and Social Sciences, 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.

• Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis

  Citation: 11171

  Authors: Virginia, Victoria

• To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales

  Citation: 2906

  Authors: Virginia, Victoria

• Generalizability in qualitative research: misunderstandings, opportunities and recommendations for the sport and exercise sciences

  Citation: 850

  Authors: Brett

• The think aloud method: what is it and how do I use it?

  Citation: 302

  Authors: David W., Güler

• Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences

  Citation: 186

  Authors: Brett, Oli, Lydia, the Moving Social Work Co-production

• Developing the craft: reflexive accounts of doing reflexive thematic analysis

  Citation: 174

  Authors: Lisa R., Andrea

• Post-qualitative inquiry and the new materialist turn: implications for sport, health and physical culture research

  Citation: 128

  Authors: Simone

• What works in coach learning, how, and for whom? A grounded process of soccer coaches’ professional learning

  Citation: 110

  Authors: Anna, Christopher J.

• A new view: exploring positive youth development in elite sport contexts

  Citation: 105

  Authors: Leisha, Jean, Janice

• ‘More than a game’: impact of <i>The First Tee</i> life skills programme on positive youth development: project introduction and Year 1 findings

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Maureen R., Cheryl P., Jennifer A., Nicole D., Melissa S.

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