SPORTDiscus
The core index for sports, exercise, and sports-medicine research.
At a Glance
- Publisher
- EBSCO
- Coverage
Millions of records across sports science, exercise physiology, sports medicine, physical education, coaching, and recreation, with deep back-indexing (verify current counts).
- Access
Institutional subscription via EBSCOhost.
- Free alternative
- PubMed for the sports-medicine overlap; Google Scholar.
- Regional
Global; the standard sport and exercise-science index.
Our Take
SPORTDiscus is the discipline index for sport and exercise science — the specialist counterpart to PubMed for a field that spans physiology, medicine, biomechanics, coaching, and physical education, catching the practitioner and grey literature that biomedical indexes cover unevenly. For an evidence review in sports science it is the natural precision tool. The limits are the usual ones: paid, EBSCO-only, and discipline-specific. Use it as your specialist sport and exercise index; always pair it with PubMed so you do not miss the clinical and physiological literature.
Power Tips
- Search the subject headings, not just keywords, for a rigorous sports-science review.
- Always run the same search in PubMed too — the sports-medicine overlap is large but neither is complete.
- Use it to catch coaching and physical-education material the biomedical indexes skip.
Alternatives & Complements
PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Web of Science
Figures last verified: June 15, 2026