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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

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

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 and Cite Score Scopus Preview

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".

SJR Preview

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 2025 is now 0.36 (compared to 2024: 0,27)

     

    Cites/Doc. Factor

    Our Cites/Docs (2 years) factor is comparative to the impact factor, which rose unto a current factor of 1.0:

    Cites/ Doc. (2 years) 2022: 1.115
    Cites/ Doc. (2 years) 2023: 0.728
    Cites/ Doc. (2 years) 2024: 1.000

     

    Find here the Cite Score From Scpous (Preview):

    Cite Score Scopus Preview

    CiteScore year 2024: 1.7

    CiteScoreTracker 2025: 1.5  (updated monthly)

     

    In Category (2024): 

    • Health Professions; Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation; Rank 154/254; 39th Percentile
    • Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine; Rank 212/332; 36th Percentile

     

    Current Issue

    Issue 4/2025: Childhood Prevention

    Editorial Start Early – Healthy Through Life: Exercise and Prevention in Childhood and Adolescence Niessner C, Wagner P

    Rapid Review In-Silico Approaches in Sports Epidemiology and their Contribution to the Research on Prevention through Physical Activity in Childhood Niessner C, Beigel M, Hoffmann M, Wunsch K

    Originalia Relationship of Muscular Fitness and Self-Rated Health of Children and Adolescents in Germany Klein T, Opper E, Worth A, Zöller CSA, Hanssen-Doose A

    Originalia Socio-Ecological Correlates of Active School Travel in Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Estorff I, Ebert B, Streicher H, Wagner P

    Originalia Associations between the Neighborhood Socio-Spatial Environment and Physical Activity Correlates in Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Ebert B, Niermann C, Estorff I, Wagner P

    Originalia Strategies to Minimize Selection Bias in Digital Population-Based Studies in Sport and Health Sciences: Methodological and Empirical Insights from the COMO Study Niessner C, Reiß F, Sand M, Knirsch F, Behn S, Hanssen-Doose A, Kaman A, Reichert M, Olfermann R, Wagner P, Worth A, Klein, T, Fleps M, von Haaren-Mack B, Ravens-Sieberer U, Woll A, Volk C, and the COMO Study Group