About
Acceptance rate:
18%
Time to first decision:
16 days*
Time from acceptance to publication:
21 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
13.8
Impact Factor rank (JCR):
1/88
2020 total content views:
3,350,029
Aims and scope
British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) is a multi-media portal that provides original research, reviews and debate relating to clinically-relevant aspects of sport and exercise medicine, including physiotherapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation. We contribute to innovation (research), education (teaching and learning) and knowledge translation (implementing research into practice and policy). Our web, print, video and audio material, combined with active social media, serves the international community of clinicians who treat active people.
British Journal of Sports Medicine is the flagship of BMJ's sports medicine portfolio and has an open access companion journal, BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.
For information about the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Plan S compliance
British Journal of Sports Medicine is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.
Editions
Injury Prevention and Health Protection
Injury Prevention and Health Protection (IPHP) is an extra edition of the BJSM sponsored and edited by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC Medical and Scientific Commission are responsible for the editing of four extra issues of the BJSM each year. These four issues are dedicated to Injury Prevention & Health Protection from elite sports to the recreational level, and are the official scientific forum of the IOC for the publication of medical research conducted at the Olympic Games, the Youth Olympic Games, and as a result of IOC consensus meetings and projects conducted at the IOC Research Centres.
BJSM Education
BJSM has a wealth of educational material available on its Education page, including videos, toolkits, ECG interpretations, and interactive BMJ Learning modules.
Journal information
Ownership
BJSM, published semi-monthly and co-owned with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine, is a membership benefit for 25 leading international sports medicine and physiotherapy organisations who have over 10,000 members. For more information please refer to the affiliations section below.
Publication Model
Subscription; with hybrid open access option
Frequency
24 issues (20 BJSM, 4 IPHP)
Launch date
1964
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded; Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, Life Sciences; MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), CINAHL, Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Single blind; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Print ISSN
0306-3674
Online ISSN
1473-0480
Journal Statistics (2020)
Acceptance rate: 18%
Speed
Time to first decision: 16 days (mean)
Time from acceptance to publication: 21 days (mean)
Impact
Impact Factor category: Sports Sciences
Impact Factor (JCR): 13.8
Impact Factor rank: 1/88
5 year Impact Factor: 14.833
Journal Citation Indicator: 3.05
Eigenfactor: 0.04095
Citescore: 19.2
Citescore rank: 1/262
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 4.329
Reach
2020 total content views: 3.35m
2020 total Altmetric mentions: 33,846
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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Affiliations
Members of the following organisations receive BJSM in print and/or online as a benefit of membership; many endorse BJSM as their official journal.
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM)
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports and Exercise Medicine (ACPSEM)
Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSP)
British Association for Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM)
British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRAT)
Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM)
Danish Society of Sports Physiotherapy
Finnish Sports Physiotherapist Association
Gruppo di Interesse Specialistico dell'AIFI
The Norwegian Association of Sports Medicine and Physical Activity (NIMF)
The Norwegian Sports Physiotherapy Association (FFI)
Physio Austria
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland: Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland (SEMS)
Society of Sports Therapists (SST)
South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA)
Sports Doctors Australia (SDrA)
Sports Medicine Association of Singapore (SMAS)
Sports Physiotherapy Canada (SPC)
Sports & Exercise Physiotherapy New Zealand (SEPNZ)
Swiss Sport Physiotherapy Association (SSPA)
Vereniging voor Sportgeneeskunde (VSG)
The BMJ Publishing Group is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.