Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation journal rankings 2023
26 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation has 26 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2022 to 0.53, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, European Physical Education Review, and Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Professions484
- Occupational Therapy27
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation26
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
26 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Physical Education and Sport PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 4.27 0.48 down from 2022 | 212 | 62% | — | ||
2European Physical Education ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 4.47 0.38 up from 2022 | 147 | 77% | $3,650 | ||
3Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.28 0.23 down from 2022 | 72 | 77% | — | ||
4Sport Education and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 3.05 0.42 down from 2022 | 255 | 63% | — | ||
5QuestTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.25 1.28 down from 2022 | 65 | 32% | — | ||
6Journal of Teaching in Physical EducationHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.38Q1 | 2.29 0.10 down from 2022 | 231 | 18% | — | ||
7Journal of Athletic TrainingOANational Athletic Trainers' Association · United States | 1.20Q1 | 2.44 0.79 down from 2022 | 495 | 100% | — | ||
8Human Movement ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 2.06 0.38 down from 2022 | 322 | 60% | $3,620 | ||
9Gait & PostureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 1.78 0.09 down from 2022 | 1,618 | 22% | $3,510 | ||
10Journal of Geriatric Physical TherapyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.66Q2 | 1.66 0.29 up from 2022 | 91 | 28% | — | ||
11Kinesiology ReviewHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.65Q2 | 2.06 0.64 up from 2022 | 133 | 26% | — | ||
12Journal of Physical Education Recreation & DanceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q2 | 0.81 0.56 down from 2022 | 266 | 7% | — | ||
13The Physical EducatorSagamore-Venture Publishing · United States | 0.54Q2 | 0.67 0.17 down from 2022 | 124 | 6% | — | ||
14Advances in Geriatric Medicine and ResearchOAUnited Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 1.54 0.59 up from 2022 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
15Athletic Training Education JournalOAUnited States | 0.42Q3 | 0.85 0.24 down from 2022 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Advances in Sports and Physical EducationUnited Arab Emirates | 0.40Q3 | 0.64 0.04 down from 2022 | 82 | 96% | — | ||
17StrategiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.70 0.27 up from 2022 | 152 | 7% | — | ||
18Topics in Geriatric RehabilitationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.63 0.05 down from 2022 | 112 | 10% | — | ||
19International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.67 0.09 down from 2022 | 60 | 6% | — | ||
20Physical & Occupational Therapy In GeriatricsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.31Q3 | 0.57 0.47 down from 2022 | 97 | 29% | — | ||
21Journal of Physical Education and Sports ManagementOAUnited States | 0.12Q4 | 0.06 0.25 down from 2022 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
22Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers AssociationOABowling Green State University · United States | 0.09Q4 | 0.15 0.20 down from 2022 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Health Sports and KinesiologyUnited States | 0.07Q4 | 0.18 0.08 up from 2022 | 49 | — | — | ||
24Frontiers in Sport ResearchPublisher not listed | 0.05Q4 | 0.12 0.03 up from 2022 | 249 | 100% | — | ||
25Clinical Practice in Athletic TrainingOAUnited States | 0.04Q4 | 0.10 0.04 up from 2022 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
26International Journal of Physical Activity and HealthPublisher not listed | 0.04Q4 | 0.06no 2022 value | 98 | 100% | — | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation highlighted.
- General Health Professions484
- Occupational Therapy27
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation26
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
4 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 26
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,341 +42.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.53 -33.3% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.