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New Submission Process

  • find here our revised submission rules (as of the Annual Meeting of Editors, June 15, 2024):
    An Author-Checklist and new Author-Guidelines from February 2025 to optimize the submission process and meet the high scientific standard. If you have any questions, please contact the scientific Editorial Office.

Open Access Journal

Issues in 2025

Issue 1/2025 → planned date of publishing March 2025

Issue 2/2025 → planned date of publishing April 2025

Issue 3/2025 → planned date of publishin May 2025

Issue 4/2025 → planned date of publishing June 2025

Issue 5/2025 → planned date of publishing August 2025

Issue 6/2025 → planned date of publishing October 2025

Issue 7/2025 → planned date of publishing November 2025

SJR - Scimago Journal & Country Rank 2022 released!

New Releases 2023!

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The SJR - Scimago Journal & Country Rank 2022 has been released. The German Journal of Sports Medicine is now ranked higher in 2 of 3 categories! In 2020, the Journal promoted from Quartile 4 into Quartile 3 in "Orthopedics and Sports Medicine" and also in "Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation".

The respective ranks are:

- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy und Rehabilitaion:
#46th percentile of 226 journals in the SJR - Scimago Rank, and, in the Scimago Journal & Country Rank the rank has improved in 2022 by 37 places.

- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine:
#40th percentile of 298 journals in the SJR - Scimago Rank, and, in the Scimago Journal & Country Rank the rank has improved in 2023 by 41 places.

    Our H-Index rose from 19 (in 2019) to an index of 23 (in 2023).

    The SJR 2021 is now 0.272 (compared to 2020: 0,23; 2019: 0.16; 2018: 0.14; 2017: 0.13)

     

    Cites/Doc. Factor

    Our Cites/Docs (2 years) factor is comparative to the impact factor, which rose unto a current factor of 1.021.

     

    SCImago Journal & Country Rank

     

    Current Issue

    Issue 1/2025 - Sports Innovation & Therapy


    Editorial The Future of German Journal of Sports Medicine: Digitalization, Innovation, and International Visibility Braumann K-M, Steinacker JM

     

    Originalia Digitalization of Juvenile Obesity Therapy: Intervention Protocol of KLAKS#online# Pawellek S, Wagner A, Wulff H

     

    Originalia Effects of a Whole-Body Electrostimulation Warm-Up Protocol in Young Semi-Professional Football Players Perez de Arrilucea Le Floc‘h UA*, Naranjo Delgado S*, Burgos-Postigo S, Fernández-Luna Á, Fernández-Elías VE

     

    Clinical Review Gait Retraining in Injured Distance Runners: A Clinical Review Bruneau MM , Gaudette LW*, Heiderscheit BC, Napier C, Posilkin J, Rauh MJ, Oldenburg, F, Wasserman L, Tenforde AS, Hollander K