The journal has been renamed from "Research in Sports Sciences" to "Specialized Journal of Sport Physiology" since 2009 and has received a scientific-research grant based on the letter of the Publications Commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology No. 14359/11/3/89 dated 28/08/2010.
This journal is indexed with respect to Certification number 1656/m on 10/10/2007 of Science and Technology Regional Library in ISC. Furthermore, the journal succeeded to have Impact Factor (IF) in ISC through Certification Number 1/22140/t on 03/03/010.
The Journal of Sport Physiology is published in Persian with a long English abstract and resources written in English and is an Open Access publication.
The Journal is published quarterly and will give priority to evaluation and publishing manuscripts that have a more thematic and conceptual affinity with the field of specialization as well as being innovative.
The following subjects are considered as a priority:
- Cellular and molecular responses and adaptations in exercise
- Responses and functional adaptations in exercise
- Norming in physical and physiological fitness factors due to national context
- Future studies in sports physiology
- Introduction of new technologies in sports physiology studies
- Updated subjects and issues in sports physiology such as covid 19, elderly, chronic diseases, etc.
- According to the license of the Publications Review Commission and according to the approvals of the SSRI board of directors, three hundred thousand Tomans will be received for issuing acceptance letters. The fee is considered for DOI allocation, editing costs, page layout, and publication.
- The DoI code will be automatically activated in the journal system for all accepted articles immediately after the final acceptance letter is issued. Researchers can refer to the "Articles in Press" section to receive the code.
- The journal is abided by international regulations of academic misuse including data processing, distortion, plagiarism, and so on. Any suspected misconduct during the review process will be treated in accordance with COPE.
- Sport Sciences Research Institute of Iran owns the copyright to all published articles. However, under open access publications, all studies published in this journal are freely available to the public on the journal's website free of charge.
- The names and emails of authors are confidential and are used only in SSRI publications and will not be available to any other person or organization.
- According to regulation No. 11/25685 issued on 29/04/2019 of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, the journal is obliged to remove the phrase (research) from the title of the journal while maintaining the scientific research degree.
***According to the regulations of the Journal Review Commission, scientific research journals approved by that organization cannot allocate more than ten percent of printed articles in a year to articles by the same author. Therefore, it is stipulated that each author be allowed to have a maximum of two articles in review and ready to be published in the journal. Also each year only one paper could be published in the journal by the same author.***