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It has a current ranking of Orthopedics 16/82, Sport Sciences 16/85 and Physiology 22/81 with an Impact Factor of 3.165. [1] These rankings generally place the journal in the top quartile of the fields related to sports medicine.
Injury Prevention is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the prevention of injuries in all age groups, including child and adolescent injuries. It is published by the BMJ Group and its editor-in-chief is Roderick J. McClure ( University of New England ).
The British Journal of Sports Medicine is a twice-monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering sports science and sports medicine including sport physiotherapy. It is published by the BMJ Group. It was established in 1964 and the editor-in-chief from 2008 to 2020 was Karim M. Khan (University of British Columbia).
Interventions targeted at decreasing the incidence of sports injuries can impact healthcare costs, as well as family and societal resources. [48] Sports injuries have direct and indirect costs. The direct costs are usually calculated by taking into account the cost of using healthcare resources to prevent, detect, and treat injury.
It is published by Taylor & Francis and is an official journal of the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe), formerly the European Consumer Safety Association (ECOSA). [1] JCR: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.875. [2]
The American Journal of Sports Medicine is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2014 impact factor is 4.362, ranking it 1 out of 72 journals in the category 'Orthopedics'. [2] and 6 out of 81 journals in the category 'Sport Sciences'. [3]
Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the late 20th century that sports medicine emerged as a distinct field of health care.
Sport injuries are always the result of overuse or trauma to a part of the body. An issue unique to youth athletics is that the participants' bones are still growing, [11] making them especially at risk for injury. Around 8,000 children are rushed to the emergency room daily because of sports injuries. [38]