Sport in Society

Aims & Scope

The global impact of sport in domains including business, politics, industry, culture and multi-media has paralleled a vibrant growth in international academia’s focus upon the discipline.

Things have changed radically over the last few years.

Sport now is transnational and global, regional and local at the same time and impacts the lives of millions across the world.

Sports governance and administration is layered and complex and on occasions deeply politicized as well.

Today Sport in Society is regarded as the preeminent academic and professional platform to critically engage in debates on these issues.

It represents a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics and professionals to consider the growing relationship of sport to an array of public domains.

The Editorial Board welcomes submissions from scholars who place particular emphasis on publishing original, empirical research articles that demonstratively convey impact on its end users.

It is proud of its truly international reach and, in a spirit of further expansion, welcomes submissions from colleagues based in Latin America, Asia and Australasia to compliment its already well-established North American and European readership.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.7
2024	1.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.575

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	55

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10091

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	977

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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 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.

• A new social movement: Sport for development and peace

  Citation: 372

  Authors: Bruce

• Sport Event Tourism and the Destination Brand: Towards a General Theory

  Citation: 199

  Authors: Laurence, Carla A.

• Serious Leisure, Social Identity and Sport Tourism

  Citation: 174

  Authors: B. Christine, Ian

• Sport serving development and peace: Achieving the goals of the United Nations through sport

  Citation: 173

  Authors: Ingrid

• Sports Clubs, Social Capital and Social Regeneration: ‘ill-defined interventions with hard to follow outcomes’?

  Citation: 171

  Authors: Fred

• Abused athletes' perceptions of the coach-athlete relationship

  Citation: 169

  Authors: Ashley E., Gretchen A.

• Electronic sport and its impact on future sport

  Citation: 166

  Authors: Kalle, Jesper

• The green waves of environmental sustainability in sport

  Citation: 160

  Authors: Brian P., Michael E., Sheila N.

• Developing through sport: evidencing sport impacts on young people

  Citation: 150

  Authors: Tess

• Playing with Race:<i>Right to Play</i>and the Production of Whiteness in ‘Development through Sport’

  Citation: 141

  Authors: Simon C.

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