Upcoming Issue 5/2020 of May will be published online first on 20^th of May and print on 20^th of June 2020. This is due to the financial losses caused by the Corona pandemic.

Topics will be on behalf of Sports Cardiology:

• Physical Activity and Sports in the Prevention and Therapy of Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Routine Heart Rate-Based and Novel ECG-Based Biomarkers of Autonomic Nervous System in Sports Medicine
• Echocardiographic Criteria for the Athlete`s Heart with Cut-off Parameters and Special Emphasize on the Right Ventricle
• Walking Activity of Cardiac Patients during One-Year Post Cardiac Rehabilitation

German Sports TV "ARD Sportschau" & Article Return to sports in Corona

• The German Sports TV "ARD Sportschau" has tagged our article Position Stand: Return to Sport in the Current Coronavirus Pandemic (SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19) on their website
• https://www.sportschau.de/weitere/allgemein/sport-nach-corona-infektion-100~_variant-android.html

Worldwide Survey | Corona Pandemic

• Social distancing and the measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic have changed our lives. In particular, access to sports and exercise has become more difficult due to contact restrictions and the closure of gyms and sports clubs.
• The Goethe University Frankfurt is conducting a worldwide survey on this topic together with 14 other universities. It would be great if you could take a few minutes to tell us how the crisis affects you. The results will help us to offer you free individualized training in a few weeks.
• Link to survey: http://goethe.link/ASAP 

Annual Table of Content

• Link to Annual Table of Content of 2019, published in Issue 3/2020.

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

New Structure and Order

• www.germanjournalsportsmedicine.com: The scientific part of the Journal contains current and previous scientific articles in HTML and PDF-format, a fully indexed archive until 1999, a full text search tool. The references can be downloaded in current citation manager formats. All articles are indexed in main journal data bases.
• www.zeitschrift-sportmedizin.de: This is the traditional internet address of the Journal and is the new online magazine in German language. You will find there researched articles on current topics in the entire field of clinical sports medicine and preventive medicine as well as current research results and opinions - also in related fields -, reviews of the scientific articles of the Journal, contents of our cooperation partners and announcements of the Journal.

Main language »American English«

• As of issue 1/2018, in all scientific articles American English will be declared as main language.
• The reviewing process can still be done in German language; all German-speaking articles need to be translated before publication by the authors. We will support young authors with this translation.
• Extended Abstracts will still be published in German.
• With this procedure we aim to be listed in international databases.