Revisiting sport management journals in the Academic Journal Guide 2024: no improvement… this time?

Scelles, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6177-5307 and Downward, Paul (2025) Revisiting sport management journals in the Academic Journal Guide 2024: no improvement… this time? Managing Sport and Leisure. ISSN 2375-0472 (In Press)

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Abstract

The Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024 was recently released. There is no change in the evaluation of sport management journals. Yet, Scelles (2023) argued that sport management journals should be rated higher in journal ranking lists. This commentary aims to offer potential reasons for the stability in the rankings for sport management journals since 2015. It identifies that one reason may be an unchallenged legacy of thought, which arises by the absence of a sport management expert sitting on the AJG Scientific Committee. Therefore, the commentary calls for the addition of a sport management expert to the Committee. This would contribute to a better international recognition of sport management which would, in turn, enhance business education and research.

Item Type:	Article (Article)
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2025 09:29
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Additional Information:	This is an accepted manuscript of a forthcoming article which will appear in Managing Sport and Leisure
Divisions:	Faculties > Business and Law Faculties > Business and Law > People and Performance
Subject terms:	3504 Commercial services
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/639091
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2025.2482226
ISSN	2375-0472
e-ISSN	2375-0480

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