Acsms Health & Fitness Journal
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Aims & Scope
ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal®, an official publication from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), is written to fulfill the information needs of fitness instructors, personal trainers, exercise leaders, program managers, and other front-line health and fitness professionals. Its mission is to promote and distribute accurate, unbiased, and authoritative information on health and fitness. The journal includes peer-reviewed features along with various topical columns to cover all aspects of exercise science and nutrition research, with components of ACSM certification workshops, current topics of interest to the fitness industry, and continuing education credit opportunities.
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ImpaQ AnalysisAcsms Health & Fitness Journal (abbr: ACSMS HEALTH FIT J, ISSN: 1091-5397) is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal in the field of Medicine, published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. in United States since 1997. The periodical holds a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 1.90, ranking in quartile Q3 of Web of Science (SCIE), a Scopus SJR indicator of 0.459 (Q2), an H-index of 36.
The journal enforces rigorous peer evaluation with a publication frequency of Bimonthly, an annual output of approximately 47 scientific articles. In terms of accessibility and author fees, it operates under the Subscription model with an estimated APC of $2,764 USD. It serves as a benchmark publication platform for academics, researchers, and doctoral candidates seeking global research visibility.
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