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The American Journal of Sports Medicine, founded in 1972, is the official publication of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports [...]

The American Journal of Sports Medicine, founded in 1972, is the official publication of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. It contains original articles addressed to orthopaedic surgeons specializing in sports medicine, and to team physicians, athletic trainers, and physical therapists focusing on the causes and effects of injury or disease resulting from or affected by athletic injury. (source)

SJR indicator vs. Cites per Doc (2y)

The SJR indicator measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is. Cites per Doc. (2y) measures the scientific impact of an average article published in the journal, it is computed using the same formula that journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters).

Citation vs. Self-Citation

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document vs. External Cites per Document

Evolution of the number of total cites per document and external cites per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document in 2, 3 and 4 years windows

Evolution of Citations per Document to a journal's published documents during the two, three and four previous years. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country.

Journal's Citable vs. Non Citable Documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows.

Journal's Cited vs. Uncited Documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Indicators	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
SJR	1,378	2,094	1,928	1,906	1,511	1,704	2,036	1,577	1,979	2,564	2,349	2,845	2,114
Total Documents	163	175	159	158	186	272	224	261	296	298	345	351	385
Total Docs. (3years)	501	487	501	497	492	503	616	682	757	781	855	939	994
Total References	3.800	4.395	3.651	4.071	4.428	8.191	7.072	7.437	8.055	8.852	9.597	8.664	10.630
Total Cites (3years)	965	1.143	1.189	1.217	1.201	1.402	2.103	2.235	2.779	3.027	3.377	3.810	3.998
Self Cites (3years)	121	165	104	145	142	204	305	281	435	487	520	483	596
Citable Docs. (3years)	434	405	411	407	420	429	553	614	670	656	712	796	841
Cites / Doc. (4years)	2,22	2,91	3,19	3,31	3,15	3,65	3,86	3,98	4,28	4,48	4,90	5,21	5,00
Cites / Doc. (3years)	2,22	2,82	2,89	2,99	2,86	3,27	3,80	3,64	4,15	4,61	4,74	4,79	4,75
Cites / Doc. (2years)	2,11	2,25	2,51	2,46	2,45	2,96	3,22	3,38	4,03	4,25	4,31	4,29	4,51
References / Doc.	23,31	25,11	22,96	25,77	23,81	30,11	31,57	28,49	27,21	29,70	27,82	24,68	27,61
Cited Docs.	322	310	313	310	331	342	474	518	587	587	637	728	749
Uncited Docs.	179	177	188	187	161	161	142	164	170	194	218	211	245
% International Collaboration	4,91	9,14	8,18	8,86	6,99	14,71	14,29	10,73	13,85	13,42	19,42	13,68	14,55