Young Investigator Special Issue, J Sports Sci & Med

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Dear Colleagues,

The policy of Journal of Sports Science and Medicine in serving Sports

Science and Sports Medicine is to make the latest developments in the

field easily and freely accessible to the readers. Supporting and

encouraging young investigators in publishing high quality publications

is one of the JSSM’s major goals. Starting in 2004, JSSM is announcing

the Young Investigator Special Issue.

A large amount of high-quality research is conducted every year by

students and young investigators in universities and institutes. The

major part of the results from these studies are presented and printed

in a form of theses or dissertations. However, these studies often

remain in the local libraries, as a kind of “fugitive literature”. This

type of literature does not reach the scientific community or databases.

JSSM is now serving young researchers as a channel for publishing their

work. Many of the scientific journals are difficult to reach even for

the experienced researchers. We want to lower this barrier for the

benefit of young investigators.

All principal investigators who have not completed their postgraduate

education are eligible to submit their work to JSSM Young Investigator

Special Issue. The Young Investigator Special Issue will follow a normal

peer-review process, except that there will not be straight rejections

in the first phase of review. Our Editors and Reviewers of the Young

Investigator Special Issue are advised to proceed with constructive

advice and remarks for all manuscripts submitted to the Journal. This

will offer a great opportunity for the Young Investigators to revise the

manuscript, while at the same time contributing to the learning process.

Thereafter, if the revisions are properly conducted according to the

remarks from reviewers, the manuscripts will be accepted for publishing.

All the manuscripts submitted to the JSSM must be prepared according to

the JSSM Guidelines for Authors. Submission of well-prepared manuscripts

will ensure a quick review process. Only the manuscripts submitted by

August 1, 2004 will be considered for publication in the 2004 JSSM Young

Investigator Special Issue. The manuscripts submitted after this date

will be evaluated for the 2005 Special Issue. For further information,

please contact the editors of the Young Investigator Special Issue.

Mustafa Atalay, MD, MPH, PhD

Young Investigator Special Issue Editor

Assoc. Editor-in Chief of J Sports Sci & Med

http://www.jssm.org

Department of Physiology

University of Kuopio

POB 1627, 70211 Kuopio

Finland

Tel: +358 17 163 108

Fax: +358 17 163 112

Mustafa.Atalay@...

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