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Young Investigator Award 2025
We are pleased to recognize the outstanding scientific achievements from 2024 that have been selected for the GJSM Young Investigator Award 2025.
This award honors exceptional contributions to advancing research in sports and exercise science.
Awardees
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M.Sc. Kristina Gebhardt – Review:
“Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Immune Cell Mitochondrial Metabolism in Health and Disease”
DOI: 10.5960/dzsm.2024.587 -
M.Sc. Jan Kern – Originalia:
“Factors Influencing Wearable-Derived Head Impact Kinematics in Soccer Heading”
DOI: 10.5960/dzsm.2024.598
The award includes
Prize money/ Official certificate of recognition/ Free registration for the Hamburg Summit 2025/ Opportunity for publication in the German Journal of Sports Medicine
The award ceremony will take place during the Sports Medicine and Health Summit 2025 in Hamburg. We look forward to celebrating excellence in sports medicine research and supporting the next generation of leading scientists.
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 3/2025
Sports, Medicine and Health Summit
Editorial Authentic Expertise in Sport,
Medicine and Health Bloch W, Horstmann T
Scientific Contribution Metabolism and Immunity in Dialogue: Exploring the Systemic Interface in Sports Medicine Krüger K, Gebhardt K