Journal profile · Multiple
Sport in Society
ISSN 1743-0437 · eISSN 1743-0445 · Taylor & Francis
Sport in Society: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.01; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 218 days to acceptance (78 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 11% (journal website); 167 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Sport in Society is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sports, Gender, and Society, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts and Sports Analytics and Performance, together about 65.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Social Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The vibrant growth in global academia’s focus upon examining sport’s significance for modern society reflects sports impact on the intersecting domains of culture, identity, politics, governance, business, industry, communication, technology and so on. Sport in Society is an international forum for academics and professionals to engage in these critical debates. The journal publishes original and outstanding peer-reviewed articles and commentaries that advance the understanding of key issues in professional and recreational sport, physical education and exercise, lifestyle and ‘alternative’ sport, and coaching in a social context. The journal intends to establish a working alliance among scholars in all disciplines of humanities and the social sciences as a way of promoting multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research. It also places high value on research by professionals that complement academic studies of the dynamic relationship between sport and society. In its commitment to promote studies of formerly or currently marginalised human groups and geographical regions, the journal encourages submissions that address issues related to the Third World, postcolonial societies, gender, sexuality, development, peace, and social justice, broadly defined. The Editorial Board welcomes submissions that demonstratively convey impact on end users. To keep the journal accessible to a wide audience, we do not take into consideration highly specialised quantitative research that use statistical analysis formulas such as regression, uncertainty coefficient, t-test, z-test, chi square, analysis of variance, covariance structure, and so on. In addition to conventional scholarly articles of around 10,000 words including references, general issues carry commentaries of 5,000 or fewer words. Commentaries are perspective pieces on systemic and structural issues in contemporary sport, written in the form of interviews, research notes, or policy recommendations. Peer Review Policy Sport in Society is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge and convey impact. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. You can submit to the journal by clicking here.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Boria MajumdarPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Sports, Gender, and SocietySocial Sciences29.8%
- Sport and Mega-Event ImpactsSocial Sciences29.6%
- Sports Analytics and PerformanceEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.4%
- Doping in SportsSocial Sciences4.9%
- Physical Education and PedagogyHealth Professions4.7%
- Adventure Sports and Sensation SeekingPsychology2.9%
- Sport Psychology and PerformancePsychology2.7%
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness ManagementPsychology2.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · 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
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEPsycINFOCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, OCLC, CABI - Agricultural Economics Database, Agricultural Engineering Abstracts (Online), Crop Science Database, Global Health, Leisure Tourism Database, Nutrition and Food Sciences Database, Review of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants (Online), Rural Development Abstracts (Online), EBSCOhost - Political Science Complete, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), ProQuest - Biological Sciences, CSA Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Health and Safety Science Abstracts (Online)
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.01LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.64Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.11LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.11Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 69OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,012OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.56OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 25.15%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 154LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 499,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,723 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 103 | 55 | 20 |
| 2025 | 167 | 75 | 196 |
| 2024 | 108 | 67 | 375 |
| 2023 | 108 | 43 | 649 |
| 2022 | 90 | 40 | 740 |
| 2021 | 148 | 46 | 1,425 |
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 Crossref · to
218 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 162 days – 344 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (78 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 259 days
- Sample
- 78 articles with submission and acceptance dates (296 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 11%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 25 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 91 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted2, with length limits
- commentariesIn addition to conventional scholarly articles of around 10,000 words including references, general issues carry commentaries of 5,000 or fewer words. Commentar…main text ≤ 5,000 words
- conventional scholarly articlesIn addition to conventional scholarly articles of around 10,000 words including references, general issues carry commentaries of 5,000 or fewer words.main text ≤ 10,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Sport in Society is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and reader…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Policy
Double anonymized peer review; initial editor appraisal followed by review by independent, anonymous expert referees; online submission via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Model summary
Sport in Society is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge and convey impact. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1743-0437
- Electronic ISSN
- 1743-0445
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 29, Issue 9 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Sport in Society
What CAS zone is Sport in Society in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Sport in Society is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism / Sociology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Sport in Society?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.01; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 69.
How long does peer review take at Sport in Society?
Based on the dates recorded on 78 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 218 days (interquartile range 162–344 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 11%. 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.
What JCR quartile is Sport in Society in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Management.
Which databases index Sport in Society?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Sport in Society is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists SCIE, PsycINFO and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Sport in Society open access, and what is the APC?
Sport in Society is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .