The German Journal of Sports Medicine focuses on translational science and clinical practice in Sports Medicine and related fields, investigating the effects of physical activity, exercise, training, and sports, as well as the consequences of physical inactivity in healthy individuals and patients of all ages. The journal addresses implications for prevention, diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation, and physical training, covering the full spectrum of Sports Medicine, Sports Science, physiology, and biomechanics.

As the leading and most widely read German journal in the field of Sports Medicine, its readers include physicians, physiologists, sports scientists, physiotherapists, coaches, sports managers, and athletes. The journal provides the scientific community with open access to its content and an online communication platform.

The journal publishes all articles as open-access, following the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Open-access Policy

This journals policy is publish online as open-access-Journal to provide free dissemination as widely as possible according to the aims of the “Budapest Open Access Initiative".

There is no fee for submission and handling of submissions.

The Licensing policy is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

The author is guaranteed his genuine copyright. Authors and readers may share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Users have to give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The permission is strictly for noncommercial use, use of the material for commercial purposes are only permitted with written permission from the editorial office. When material is used further, remixed, transformed, users must distribute the contributions under the same license as the original.

Each scientific article is uniquely identified by a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). XML-structured data are available of bibliographic data, abstracts and text. The journal is listed in:

• SciVerse Scopus
• CrossRef
• EBSCO SPORTDiscus
• Google Scholar
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Here you will find detailed information on the subject of data protection and privacy policy. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally.

For further questions, please contact the Editorial Office.

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