Sports Medicine - Open publishes the following article types:
Click the relevant link to find style and formatting information for the article you are going to submit.
Preparing your manuscript
Manuscripts should conform to the following reporting guidelines:
- Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: PRISMA
- Randomized Clinical Trials: CONSORT
- Observational studies: STROBE
- Studies of diagnostic accuracy: STARD
- Animal pre-clinical studies: ARRIVE
- Other types of health-related research: Consult the EQUATOR web site for appropriate reporting guidelines.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
68 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
62 days to first decision for all manuscripts
118 days from submission to acceptance
21 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
1.247 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.173 - SCImago Journal Rank
3.120 - CiteScoreUsage
1,185 Altmetric Mentions
- ISSN: 2198-9761 (electronic)