“…Due to this relevance, several studies have been developed for analysing sport sciences journals' history (Williams, Hardy, & Mutrie, 2008), productivity (Arbinaga Ibarzábal, Aragón Domínguez, & Tejedor Benítez, 2010;López Moreno & Velasco Martín, 2004), contents (Dogliotti, 2014;Perrino Peña, 2014), access (Job, Mattos, & Clipes Ferreira, 2013), management (Fernandez Vaz, Quintão de Almeida, & Bassani, 2014;Gomes de Barros, Rombaldi, Terra Borges, & Florindo, 2014;Moreira, 2014;Tani, 2014) or quality and visibility (Devís Devís, Antolín Jimeno, Villamón, Moreno Doña, & Valenciano Valcárcel, 2003;Valenciano Valcárcel, Devís Devís, & Villamón, 2008b;Valenciano Valcárcel, Villamón, & Devís Devís, 2008;Villamón, Devís Devís, Valencia-Peris, & Valenciano Valcárcel, 2007;Villamón, Devís Devís, & Valenciano Valcárcel, 2005) to name a few. Moreover, scientific journals are both important for the spreading of knowledge and the assessment of academics' research activity, being their quality, indexation and impact on the scientific community a reflection of the maturity of a certain field of study (Martín Sempere, 2001).…”