Journals Serving the Community of Sport Management Scholarship
h-‐ index (2009-‐ 2013) Current Impact Factor 5 year Impact Factor Australian Ranking SPORT MANAGEMENT COMPREHENSIVE/GENERALEuropean Sport Management Quarterly 13 0.489 B
International Journal of Developmental Sport Management (online)
1
International Journal of Sport Management 9 B
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
9 B
Journal of Applied Sport Management 0
Journal of Sport Management 20 0.543 1.026 A*
Sport, Business and Management: An International
Journal 5 C
Sports Management International Journal: Choregia 4
Sport Management Review 18 A
ECONOMICS, FINANCE & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
International Journal of Sport Finance 9 0.3 0.418 C
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (online) 11
Journal of Sports Analytics 0
Journal of Sports Economics 15 0.743 0.896 B
FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Journal of Facility Design, Planning and Management 0
Journal of Venue and Event Management (online) 3
LAW
ABA Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 0
DePaul Journal of Sports Management and
Contemporary Problems 0
Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University
Detroit College of Law Journal of Entertainment &
Sports Law 0
Entertainment and Sports Law Journal 3
Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 1
Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law 0
International Sports Law Journal 3
Journal of Entertainment & Sports Law 0
Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport 2 C
Marquette Sports Law Journal 0
Mississippi Sports Law Review 0
Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 1
Sports Law e-‐journal (e-‐journal) 0
University of Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal
1
University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review
0
Villanova Sports & Entertainment Law Forum 0
Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal 1
MARKETING & MEDIA
Communication and Sport 3
International Journal of Sport Communication 14 B
International Journal of Sports Marketing &
Sponsorship 9 B
Journal of Sports Media 6
Sport Marketing Quarterly 14 B
POLICY & DEVELOPMENT
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 7 C
Journal of Sport for Development (open access) 0
SCHOOL & UNIVERSITY SPORTS
Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in
Education 5
Journal of Amateur Sport 0
Journal of Contemporary Athletics 3
Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 7
Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics 8
Journal of Physical Education and
Recreational Sports Journal 6
Sport, Education and Society 19 1.172 1.25
TEACHING
Case Studies in Sport Management 0
Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education (open access)
11 0.113 0.248
Sport Management Educational Journal 5 C
SPORT MANAGEMENT forthcoming
Global Journal of Sport Management*
The All Rounder **
WASM Journal of Sport Management (name to be
decided later) ***
SPORT MANAGEMENT WITH ASSOCIATED
INDUSTRIES
Event Management: An International Journal 13 A
International Journal of Event and Festival
Management 10
International Journal of Event Management Research
(online) 3
International Journal of Sport Management,
Recreation & Tourism (open access) 3
International Journal of Urban Labour and Leisure
(open access) 0
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration 10 B
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure &
Events 11 B
Journal of Sport and Tourism 16
Journal of Sport and Health Research (open access) 7
Managing Leisure: An International Journal 8 B
SPORT CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOLOGY,
SOCIOLOGY & HISTORY
Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Annual 2
European Journal for Sport and Society 6
European Sports History Review 0
International Journal of Sport and Exercise
International Journal of the History of Sport 9 0.376
International Journal of Sport Psychology 8 0.867 1.176 B
International Review of Sport and Exercise
Psychology 19
International Review for the Sociology of Sport 19 1.125 B
International Review on Sport and Violence (open
access) 2
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 22 1.159 1.771 A
Journal of Leisure Research 17 0.87 1.462 A
Journal of Sport and Social Issues 15 1.3 1.28 B
Journal of Sport Behavior 14 B
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 12 2.452 3.69
Journal of Sport History 9 C
Journal of Sport Sciences 3
Journal of Sports and Recreation 0
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 8
Leisure/Loisir 7 B
Leisure Sciences 15 1.018 1.617 A
Leisure Studies 15 0.887 A
Physical Culture and Sports Studies and Research
(open access) 5
Psychology of Sport and Exercise 1 1.719 2.433
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 6
Quest 15 .661 .875
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 24 1.108 1.726
Soccer and Society 13 C
Sociology of Sport Journal 19 0.727 1.192 A
Sport in Society: Cultures, Politics, Media, Politics 2 B
Sport History Review 3
Sporting Traditions 3 C
The Sport Journal (open access) 0
The Sport Psychologist 17 1.018 1.442
Sports Historian 0
Sport History Review 3
Women in Sports & Physical Activity Journal 0
World Leisure Journal 5 B
' English language journals that are often or sometimes used by sport management researchers and
educators. Journals limited in regional scope (e.g., one or more Asian nations, South Africa, Scandinavia) are not included. Journals focused on the social sciences of sport are included because they are frequently used by sport management scholars as teaching, research, and publishing outlets. Journals with a primary focus on sport science (e.g., medicine, physiology, biomechanics) are not included here, although they do often publish sport-‐management-‐relevant work (e.g., management/policies regarding drug use in sport). Although event and sport tourism journals are included, other tourism/hospitality journals are not included despite the occasional article that is relevant to event management, the use of events in destination marketing, and/or sponsor hospitality.
*Edited out of Korea, in parallel to Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science; to be published by a British publisher.
** An online journal combining academic and journalistic work on sport’s many facets, including management.
***Tentative agreement with a leading British publisher; details still to be worked out.
Impacts of Comparison/Benchmark Journals
h-‐index (2009-‐2013) Current Impact Factor 5 year Impact Factor Australian Ranking BIOMECHANICSJournal of Biomechanics 47 2.716 3.031
Journal of Applied Biomechanics 15 1.259 1.508
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY
Journal of Applied Physiology 63 3.484 4.156
International Journal of Sports Physiology
and Performance 25 2.247 2.308
CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Journal of Consumer Research 45 3.542 4.641 A*
Psychology and Marketing 27 1.309 2.124 A
ECONOMICS
Journal of Economic Literature 32 6.667 10.16 A*
Quarterly Journal of Economics 86 5.278 8.147
FINANCE (including accounting)
Journal of Finance 103 4.333 6.185 A*
Journal of Accounting & Economics 51 3.912 4.023 A*
LAW
Harvard Law Review 29 5.306 4.203 A*
Stanford Law Review 18 4.796 3.534
MANAGEMENT
Academy of Management Review 53 7.895 11.578 A*
Journal of Management 63 6.704 7.754 A*
MARKETING
Journal of Marketing 68 3.368 5.717 A*
Journal of Marketing Research 47 2.254 3.527 A*
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Philosophy and Public Affairs 16 1.958 2.762 A
Journal of Public Administration Research
and Theory 38 1.951 3.337 A
TOURISM
Annals of Tourism Research 41 3.683 3.616 A*
Tourism Management 59 2.571 3.552 A*