!News!
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
- The German Journal of Sports Medicine <Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin> is an Open Access Journal according to the standards of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/licensing-examples/#by-nc-sa
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!
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.
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