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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