World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Sports Medicine and Health Science
H-index 9

Sports Medicine and Health Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 2887 18 20 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 42
Documents by Best Scientists*: 43
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 17
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.784
Impact Factor: 2.3

Top Publications

  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and Physical Activity

    Jeffrey A. Woods;Noah T. Hutchinson;Scott K. Powers;William O. Roberts

    (2020)
    604 Citations
  • 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior

    Anthony D. Okely;Anthony D. Okely;Anna Kontsevaya;Johan Ng;Chalchisa Abdeta

    (2021)
    161 Citations
  • COVID-19: A pandemic that threatens physical and mental health by promoting physical inactivity

    Amira Mohammed Ali;Hiroshi Kunugi

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Are flexibility and muscle-strengthening activities associated with functional limitation?

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Sarcopenia: Clinical implications in ovarian cancer, diagnosis, etiology, and management

    Aeran Seol;Se Ik Kim;Yong Sang Song

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Chinese Compilation of Physical Activities in healthy adults aged 18–64: Categories and metabolic intensities

    (2022)
    8 Citations
  • Associations between three measures of physical activity and selected influences on physical activity in youth transitioning from elementary to middle school

    Marsha Dowda;Rodney K. Dishman;Ruth P. Saunders;Russell R. Pate

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • 24-Hour movement behaviours and COVID-19 among children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A repeat cross-sectional study

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • Structural brain differences between ultra-endurance athletes and sedentary persons

    T. Paruk;L. Rauch;M. Jankiewicz;K. Van Breda

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Validity and reliability of a Chinese rating of perceived exertion scale in young Mandarin speaking adults

    Weiyang Ding;Tongjian You;Philimon N. Gona;Laurie A. Milliken

    (2020)
    6 Citations

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