Sport in History

Aims & Scope

Sport in History is concerned with all aspects of sport and associated forms of leisure and recreation in the past.

The journal is the academic arm of the British Society of Sports History and is committed to publishing original, archive-based research on the history of sport from a variety of disciplines.

The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes throughout history, as well as historiographical debates, review articles and wide-ranging book reviews.

Sport in History publishes high quality historical research on sport, combining a wide range of topics and approaches, attracting a mix of leading historians and younger scholars, with excellent special issues - 'amateurism', 'the aesthetics of sport', and ‘sports literature', are recent examples.

It is interdisciplinary, serious, accessible and lively with meticulous and expert editorial direction." Professor Richard Holt, De Montfort University, UK

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.161

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	23

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23675

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	48

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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 Arts and Humanities and 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.

• Knud Enemark Jensen's Death During the 1960 Rome Olympics: A Search for Truth?

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Verner

• The Legacy of Festina: Patterns of Drug Use in European Cycling Since 1998

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Ask

• The Amateur Body and the Middle-class Man: Work, Health and Style in Victorian Britain

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Richard

• The Invention of a ‘Drug of Mass Destruction’: Deconstructing the EPO Myth

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Bernat

• Football's Engineers? British Football Coaches, Migration and Intercultural Transfer,<i>c</i>.1910–<i>c</i>.1950s

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Matthew

• Sites of Truth or Metaphors of Power? Refiguring the Archive

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Douglas

• History, Theory and the ‘Civilizing Process’

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Tony

• Cultural Continuity and Football in Nineteenth-century Lancashire

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Peter

• In toxic hating masculinity: MMA hard men and media representation

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Paul

• Archives, Truths and the Historian at Work: A Reply to Douglas Booth's ‘Refiguring the Archive’

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Martin

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