Motor Control
ISSN 1087-1640 · Human Kinetics · United States · active 1973–2026
Metrics
- Best Scimago quartile (2025)
- Q2
- Cites per paper (2y)
- 1.7
- SJR
- 0.476
- h-index
- 66
“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.
Data as of 1 November 2026 (venue index build).
Scimago Journal Rank 2025
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Motor Control is Q2 in 1 of its 4 subject categories and Q3 in the other 3. Its best category quartile is Q2.
| Subject category | Quartile | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | Q2 | #117 of 260 |
| Physiology (medical) | Q3 | #76 of 117 |
| Sports Science | Q3 | #84 of 121 |
| Neurology (clinical) | Q3 | #253 of 406 |
- Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
- 1.79
- Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
- 28
The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).
Motor Control is Q2 in 1 of its 4 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: Q2, #117 of 260), with SJR 0.476 (Scimago) and an h-index of 66 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.
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Indexing & access
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- ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- Access status:
- subscription. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
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Frequently asked
Is Motor Control a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag Motor Control. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.
Is Motor Control indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Motor Control appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is the impact factor of Motor Control?
Papers in Motor Control are cited about 1.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 66. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
What Scimago quartile is Motor Control (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Motor Control is Q2 in 1 of its 4 subject categories and Q3 in the other 3. By category: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: Q2, #117 of 260; Physiology (medical): Q3, #76 of 117; Sports Science: Q3, #84 of 121; Neurology (clinical): Q3, #253 of 406. Its best category quartile is Q2. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Motor Control is cited about 1.7 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 66.
What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Motor Control?
The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Motor Control. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.
Is Motor Control open access?
Our index records its access status as "subscription". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.
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