Journal profile · SPORT SCIENCES
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
ISSN 2398-9459 · eISSN 2055-7647 · BMJ Publishing Group · United Kingdom
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.2 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 133 days to acceptance (98 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 28% (journal website); 184 articles a year; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Acceptance rate:28%Time to first decision with review:62 days*Acceptance to publication:24 days*Impact Factor:3.2Citescore:42025 total content views:497,571More journal metricsHow we get these metrics*median number of days Aims & scope Editorial Board Ownership Journal information Journal Statistics 2025 Contact information For authors To advertise Rights and permissions Affiliations Related
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): SPORT SCIENCES
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.02LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 184LetPub ·
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
133 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 61 days – 170 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 26 days (100 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 160 days
- Sample
- 98 articles with submission and acceptance dates (320 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)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 28%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 24 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Peer reviewLetPub
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
Fully open accessLetPub
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LetPub | GBP 2,163 | Yes | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted10
- consensus statementConsensus statementLength not stated
- editorialEditorialLength not stated
- original researchOriginal researchLength not stated
- protocolProtocolLength not stated
- qualitative researchQualitative researchLength not stated
- reviewReviewLength not stated
- short reportShort reportLength not stated
- supplementsSupplementsLength not stated
- systematic reviewSystematic reviewLength not stated
- viewpointViewpointLength not stated
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2398-9459
- Electronic ISSN
- 2055-7647
- Society / sponsor
- British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
What CAS zone is BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category 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 BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.
How long does peer review take at BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 98 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 133 days (interquartile range 61–170 days); authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 28%. 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 BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .