Journal profile · Rehabilitation
Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly
ISSN 0736-5829 · eISSN 1543-2777 · Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. · UNITED STATES · Quarterly
Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.64; hybrid open access; median 186 days to acceptance (67 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 43 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly is published by Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport, Children's Physical and Motor Development and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, together about 44.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Rehabilitation
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and SportSocial Sciences21.8%
- Children's Physical and Motor DevelopmentPsychology12.6%
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement DisordersMedicine10%
- Sports injuries and preventionMedicine5.2%
- Disability Education and EmploymentSocial Sciences5.1%
- Spinal Cord Injury ResearchMedicine4.5%
- Physical Education and PedagogyHealth Professions4.4%
- Disability Rights and RepresentationSocial Sciences3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.64LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.38LetPub ·
- h-index
- 47LetPub ·
- h-index
- 94OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 800OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.55OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 6.42%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 40LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,544 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 8 | 3 |
| 2025 | 43 | 8 | 57 |
| 2024 | 30 | 5 | 101 |
| 2023 | 48 | 16 | 359 |
| 2022 | 42 | 14 | 277 |
| 2021 | 42 | 6 | 409 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
186 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 127 days – 244 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 63 days (67 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 273 days
- Sample
- 67 articles with submission and acceptance dates (84 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 0736-5829
- Electronic ISSN
- 1543-2777
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly
What CAS zone is Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Rehabilitation / Sport Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.64; CiteScore 3.3, h-index 94.
How long does peer review take at Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly?
Based on the dates recorded on 67 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 186 days (interquartile range 127–244 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly open access, and what is the APC?
Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .