EJSS is
Medline listed.|4.05 Impact Factor.|@EurJSportSci.|Proud sponsor of the YIA.

European Journal of Sport Science (EJSS) is the official Medline- and Thomson Reuters-listed journal of the European College of Sport Science. The Journal promotes the highest standards of scientific study and scholarship in respect of the following fields:

Each section has a number of Associate Editors responsible for quality, scientific rigour and submissions to their section. The full editorial team (including Editorial Board) and structure can be found here.

Associate Editors

Associate Editors play a vital role in the success of the journal, supporting the core editorial team in the peer review process, endorsing the journal within their field and part of the world, contributing to the best paper award process each year and attending the annual Associate Editor meeting at the ECSS Annual Congress to collaborate and share experiences with the rest of the team.

Our vision

Influencing knowledge and practice around the world.

Our missions

Proud sponsor of the YIA

EJSS is the proud sponsor of the ECSS Young Investigators Award. By creating this connection, the College has brought together two of its key missions:

Disseminating high quality, innovative science
Empowering the development of young scientists.

You can read more about the College’s vision here. It has been a long term ambition of the ECSS to fund this prestigious award and highlight the excellence of young scientists from around the world. Given the ongoing success of the Journal and continuous development of its activities, the EJSS is now in the position to do this. EJSS hopes that the partnership with the YIA competition will see even more high quality publications from YIA winners reach the audience of the Journal.

What does this mean?

The College is reinvesting the journal’s success back into the promotion and development of young scientists through the YIA programme. This link will create a platform for young scientists to develop as researchers and become future authors, reviewers, and editors of EJSS and other scientific journals.

Find out more about the YIA

Subscribe

Please refer to the Publisher’s website for subscription information.

ECSS members receive complimentary online access to the journal through their ECSS account.

Read about ECSS membership benefits here

Open access

EJSS is an ‘open select’ journal. This means authors can publish open access content in the journal. EJSS publishes both open access content and content available via subscription. All open access articles can be found on the Publisher’s website here.

For more information on publishing open access, please refer to the Publisher’s author services website here.

Publication details

EJSS publishes 12 issues per year. All issues are available on the Publisher’s website. ECSS members can log into their ECSS account to access the Journal free of charge.

Print ISSN: 1746-1391 Online ISSN: 1536-7290.

Medline

EJSS was accepted into Medline in 2013. EJSS has a dedicated section for submissions in ‘sport and exercise medicine and health’.

EJSS Best Paper Award

EJSS launched its Best Paper Award in 2017, with the inaugural award ceremony taking place at the 2017 ECSS MetropolisRuhr Congress in Essen, Germany.

Complementing ECSS’s mission to “disseminate high quality, innovative science and its application”, this award showcases the most innovative science published in EJSS. The winning paper and all nominated papers are available free to access for a limited time following first announcement of the winner until one month following the ECSS annual congress.

Eligibility for the award

Journal papers published in the calendar year prior to the congress are eligible for the award. For example, in 2021, papers were considered from Volume 20 (calendar year 2020).

Process

Associate Editors will nominate papers from their section published in the calendar year. An editorial team will review all nominations and select an overall winner.

Criteria

• Open to all age groups and career levels
• Section Editors will nominate papers for consideration according to the following criteria:
  • Originality: The paper is innovative and constructively engages with new or complex problems.
  • Significance: The paper makes an important contribution to the advancement of knowledge in sport science.
  • Methodological rigour: The paper uses robust and appropriate methods to address the research question.
  • Potential impact: The paper has the potential to alter prevailing theory or practice in sport science.

Timeline

• Early January, Award Opens: Editor-in-Chief contacts Associate Editors for their nominations.
• Late February, Nominations: Editor-in-Chief reviews nominations and selects best paper winner.
• Early March, First Announcement: ECSS Office informs winner and invites winner to attend congress.

Award ceremony

In normal circumstances, the EJSS Best Paper Award is officially announced at the ECSS Annual Congress just before the congress closing ceremony and the winner will be called to the stage. A cheque will be handed over by the Editor-in-Chief and ECSS President.

Prize money

• €1000 (Euros) in prize money is granted to the winner of the award.
• Congress registration fees are waived for the first author of the winning paper.

Announcement

The EJSS Best Paper Award will be announced via all ECSS channels, including websites, newsletters and social media.

Latest results here.