The American Journal of Sports Medicine: impact and ranking
The American Journal of Sports Medicine has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.65 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,406 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 361. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.65 #1,406 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 361 #292 of 18,122
- Citations
- 964k #395 of 18,122
- Works
- 13k 74.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The American Journal of Sports Medicine?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for The American Journal of Sports Medicine: 5.65, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The American Journal of Sports Medicine #1,406 of 18,122 journals, in the top 8%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The American Journal of Sports Medicine?
OpenAlex gives The American Journal of Sports Medicine an h-index of 361: 361 of its papers have each been cited at least 361 times. That ranks #292 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The American Journal of Sports Medicine publish?
OpenAlex records 12,887 works in The American Journal of Sports Medicine from 1933 to 2026, cited 964,157 times in all, 74.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #395 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The American Journal of Sports Medicine
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0363-5465
- In OpenAlex
- 1933 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The American Journal of Sports Medicine as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,400.
- Website
- ajs.sagepub.com
- OpenAlex record
- S154904565
Journals ranked near The American Journal of Sports Medicine
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The American Journal of Sports Medicine on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,354 | Frontiers in Plant Science | 5.75 | 327 |
| 1,374 | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 5.71 | 332 |
| 1,392 | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 5.67 | 305 |
| 1,407 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 5.64 | 343 |
| 1,408 | The Astrophysical Journal | 5.64 | 697 |
| 1,427 | Annals of Surgery | 5.59 | 453 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.