Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation journal rankings 2021
25 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation has 25 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2020 to 0.68, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.71. The top three are Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Sport Education and Society, and European Physical Education Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions483
- Occupational Therapy27
- Emergency Medical Services26
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation25
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology15
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
25 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Physical Education and Sport PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.02Q1 | 5.48 0.80 down from 2020 | 157 | 56% | — | ||
2Sport Education and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 3.85 0.85 up from 2020 | 206 | 47% | — | ||
3European Physical Education ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 4.41 1.24 up from 2020 | 138 | 46% | $3,650 | ||
4QuestTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.58Q1 | 4.06 1.58 up from 2020 | 81 | 23% | — | ||
5Journal of Teaching in Physical EducationHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.93 0.91 down from 2020 | 182 | 21% | — | ||
6Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 2.72 0.59 up from 2020 | 56 | 44% | — | ||
7Journal of Athletic TrainingOANational Athletic Trainers' Association · United States | 1.71Q1 | 4.33 0.31 up from 2020 | 477 | 100% | — | ||
8Human Movement ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 2.67 0.02 down from 2020 | 431 | 41% | $3,620 | ||
9Journal of Geriatric Physical TherapyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.74 0.33 down from 2020 | 108 | 30% | — | ||
10Kinesiology ReviewHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.05Q2 | 2.61 0.88 up from 2020 | 128 | 14% | — | ||
11Journal of Physical Education Recreation & DanceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.57 0.38 up from 2020 | 266 | 8% | — | ||
12Gait & PostureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 2.15 0.11 down from 2020 | 1,746 | 30% | $3,510 | ||
13The Physical EducatorSagamore-Venture Publishing · United States | 0.68Q2 | 0.82 0.08 up from 2020 | 176 | 3% | — | ||
14International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.62Q3 | 0.67 0.13 down from 2020 | 39 | 4% | — | ||
15Physical & Occupational Therapy In GeriatricsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.02 0.05 down from 2020 | 86 | 10% | — | ||
16Athletic Training Education JournalOAUnited States | 0.48Q3 | 0.99 0.10 up from 2020 | 114 | 100% | — | ||
17Advances in Geriatric Medicine and ResearchOAUnited Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 1.27 0.01 down from 2020 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
18Topics in Geriatric RehabilitationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.88 0.10 up from 2020 | 114 | 10% | — | ||
19StrategiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.36 0.22 down from 2020 | 146 | 5% | — | ||
20Journal of Advances in Sports and Physical EducationUnited Arab Emirates | 0.13Q4 | 0.28 0.19 up from 2020 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
21Clinical Practice in Athletic TrainingOAUnited States | 0.09Q4 | 0.16 0.04 down from 2020 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
22Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers AssociationOABowling Green State University · United States | 0.08Q4 | 0.21 0.15 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Sports and GamesPublisher not listed | 0.03Q4 | 0.06 0.06 up from 2020 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
24Frontiers in Sport ResearchPublisher not listed | 0.03Q4 | 0.05 0.02 up from 2020 | 143 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.02Q4 | 0.03no change | 56 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation highlighted.
- General Health Professions483
- Occupational Therapy27
- Emergency Medical Services26
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation25
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology15
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
5 additional Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 25
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,917 +30.8% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.68 -17.5% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 12 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 23 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 2,430 | 2,874 | 3,395 | 3,928 | 4,412 | 5,212 | 6,152 | 7,129 | 8,353 | 9,941 | 11,806 | 13,257 | 14,626 | 15,828 | 17,545 | 19,699 | 21,621 | 22,545 | 22,871 | 23,792 | 26,193 | 29,917 | 34,133 | 37,341 | 39,808 | 42,647 | |
| Median OJR | 0.37 | 0.60 | 0.58 | 0.34 | 0.35 | 0.740 | 0.76 | 0.69 | 0.77 | 0.90 | 1.12 | 1.22 | 0.856 | 0.84 | 0.73 | 0.57 | 0.864 | 0.741 | 0.82 | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.68 | 0.47 | 0.53 | 0.63 | 0.65 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.