Sport Education and Society

Sport Education and Society is published by Routledge and is in Zone 2 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Physical Education and Pedagogy, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts and Sports, Gender, and Society, together about 51.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Sport, Education and Society is an international journal which provides a focal point for the publication of social science research on pedagogy, policy and the body in society and the wide range of associated social, cultural, political and ethical issues in physical activity, sport and health. The journal concentrates both on the forms, contents and contexts of physical education, sport and health education found in schools, colleges and other sites of formal education, as well as the pedagogies of play, calisthenics, gymnastics, sport and leisure found in familial contexts, sports clubs, the leisure industry, private fitness and health studios, dance schools and rehabilitation centres. In addition to papers reporting original research, Sport, Education and Society will also consider various media (e.g., TV, film, web sites) as forms of pedagogy and report their impact on understandings of the body in society. Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions not only from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, but from all professionals with interests in theoretical and empirical interests relating to policy, curriculum, social inclusion, equity and identity, and progressive educational development in physical activity, health and sport. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Sport Sciences

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 25%); most named United Kingdom 2, Mainland China 1, New Zealand 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIESSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

PsycINFOERICCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, Academic Search, Australian Education Index (AEI), Australian Research Council (ARC) Ranked Journal List, British Education Index, EBSCO Online, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), Focus On: Sports Science & Medicine (ISI), ISI Alerting Services (ISI), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, SciSearch (ISI), Social Scisearch, Sociological Abstracts

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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.

Impact

Impact factor

2.57LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

7.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

7.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.25Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

2.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

2.27Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

55LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

102OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,028OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.32OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

18.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

32.49%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

155LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

536,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

16%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

6 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

57 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

9 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Routledge

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1357-3322

Electronic ISSN

1470-1243

Latest issue on the website

Volume 31, Issue 7 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website