As an open access journal, Korean Journal of Sport Science will follow the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (https://doaj.org/bestpractice) developed by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
The URL address of official journal web site is https://kjss.sports.re.kr.
The Korean Journal of Sport Science team endeavors to make a good website. KJSS website demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It does not contain any misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site.
Aims & Scope statement: https://kjss.sports.re.kr/menu/646/707
Authorship criteria: https://kjss.sports.re.kr/menu/5838/657
ISSN Information:pISSN: 1598-2920 eISSN: 2233-7938
The official journal title is Korean Journal of Sport Science. Abbreviated title is Korean J Sport Sci.
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Type of peer review: Double-blind review
Method of peer review
Before reviewing, all submitted manuscripts are inspected by Similarity Check
powered by iThenticate (https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/), a plagiarism-screening tool.
KJSS reviews all manuscripts received. A
manuscript is first reviewed for its format and then sent to the two most relevant investigators of the field. In
addition, if deemed necessary, a review of the manuscript’s statistics may be requested. Authors’ names and
affiliations are removed during peer review. The acceptance criteria for all papers are based on the quality and the
originality of the research and its clinical and scientific significance. Acceptance of the manuscript is decided on
the basis of the critiques and the recommended decision of the referees. An initial decision will normally be made
within 4 weeks of receipt of a manuscript and the reviewers’comments sent to the corresponding authors by e-mail.
Revised manuscripts must be submitted online by the corresponding author. The corresponding author must indicate the
alterations that have been made in response to the referees’ comments item by item. Failure to resubmit the revised
manuscript within 4 weeks of the editorial decision is regarded as a withdrawal. A final decision on acceptance for
publication or rejection for publication is forwarded to the corresponding author from the Editorial Office.
Any appeal against the editorial decision must be made within 2 weeks of the date on the decision letter. Authors
who wish to appeal a decision should contact the Editor-in-Chief, explaining in detail their reasons for the appeal.
All appeals will be discussed with at least one other associate editor. If the associate editor(s) does not agree, the
appeal will be discussed at a full editorial meeting. KJSS does not consider second appeals.
The journal is owned by the publisher, the Korea Institute of Sport Science. https://www.sports.re.kr/global/main/main.do
The management team is as follows:
- Journal manager: Youngsook
Kim, Editor-in-Chief, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
- Managers of the review process:
Misuk Kim, Korea
Institute of Sport Science, Korea
Seokki Min, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
- Ethics editor: Jinkyung
Cho, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
- Statistics editor: Kitae Kim, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
- English editor: Hyunwoo Jung, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
- Manuscript editor: Minsoo Kim, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
- Layout editor: ESCOM, Escom Information System, Korea
- Website and JATS XML producer: Jane Lee, M2PI, Korea
- Editorial assistant: Soyoung Kim, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
The governing body is the journal's editorial board.
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The Editorial team is available from Editorial Board page at the front part of the journal.
Contact information
Editor-in-Chief: Youngsook Kim, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Korea
Editorial Office: The Korean
Journal of Sport Science
Korea Institute of Sport Science, 727 Hwarang-lo,
Nowon-gu, Seoul 01794, Korea
Tel: +82-2-970-9570
Fax: +82-2-970-9651
E-mail: publ@kspo.or.kr
Copyright policy: All published papers become the permanent property of the Korea Institute of Sport Science. Copyrights of all published materials are owned by the Korea Institute of Sport Science and permission must be obtained for any commercial use of materials. Every author should sign the copyright transfer agreement forms.
Licensing information: This is an Open Access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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There are no author submission fees or other publication-related charges. All cost for the publication process is supported by the Publisher. KJSS is a so-called platinum open access journal which does not charge author fees.
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When the journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct such as redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fraudulent or fabricated data, changes in authorship, an undisclosed conflict of interest, ethical problems with a submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and so on, the resolution process will follow the flowchart provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The discussion and decision on the suspected cases are carried out by the Editorial Board.
Journal policies on authorship and contributorship
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Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, and/or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published; and 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Every author should meet all of these four conditions. After the initial submission of a manuscript, any changes whatsoever in authorship (adding author(s), deleting author(s), or re-arranging the order of authors) must be explained by a letter to the editor from the authors concerned. This letter must be signed by all authors of the paper. Copyright assignment must also be completed by every author.
Corresponding author and first author: Korean Journal of Sport Science does not allow multiple corresponding authors for one article. Only one author should correspond with the editorial office and readers for one article. Korean Journal of Sport Science does accept notice of equal contribution for the first author when the study was clearly performed by co-first authors.
Correction of authorship after publication: Korean Journal of Sport Science does not correct authorship after publication unless a mistake has been made by the editorial staff. Authorship may be changed before publication but after submission when an authorship correction is requested by all of the authors involved with the manuscript.
How the journal will handle complaints and appeals
The policy of the journal is primarily aimed at protecting the authors,
reviewers, editors, and the publisher of the journal. If not described below, the process of handling complaints and
appeals follows the COPE guidelines available from: https://publicationethics.org/appeals.
Who complains or makes an appeal? Submitters, authors, reviewers, and readers may register complaints and appeals in a variety of cases as follows: falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, duplicate publication, authorship dispute, conflict of interest, ethical treatment of animals, informed consent, bias or unfair/inappropriate competitive acts, copyright, stolen data, defamation, and legal problem. If any individuals or institutions want to inform the cases, they can send a letter via the contact page on our website: https://kjss.sports.re.kr/menu/646/649. For the complaints or appeals, concrete data with answers to all factual questions (who, when, where, what, how, why) should be provided.
Who is responsible for resolving and handling complaints and appeals? The Editor, Editorial Board, or Editorial Office is responsible for them. A legal consultant or ethics editor may be able to help with decision making.
What may be the consequence of the remedy? It depends on the type or degree of misconduct. The consequence of resolution will follow the COPE guidelines.
Journal policies on conflicts of interest / competing interests
The corresponding author must inform the editor of any potential conflicts of
interest that could influence the authors’ interpretation of the data. Examples of potential conflicts of interest are
financial support from or connections to companies, political pressure from interest groups, and academically related
issues. In particular, all sources of funding applicable to the study should be explicitly stated.
Journal policies on data sharing and reproducibility;
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This journal follows the data sharing policy described in "Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials: A Requirement
of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors" (https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.7.1051). As of July 1, 2018 manuscripts submitted to ICMJE journals that report the results of interventional clinical
trials must contain a data sharing statement as described below. Clinical trials that begin enrolling participants on
or after January 1, 2019 must include a data sharing plan in the trial's registration. The ICMJE's policy regarding
trial registration is explained at http://www.icmje.org/about-icmje/faqs/clinical-trials-registration/. If the data sharing plan changes after registration this should be reflected in the statement submitted and
published with the manuscript, and updated in the registry record.
All of the
authors of research articles that deal with interventional clinical trials must submit data sharing plan of example 1
to 4 in Table 1. Based on the degree of sharing plan, authors should deposit their data after de-identification and
report the DOI of the data and the registered site.
Table 1. Examples of data sharing statements that fulfill these ICMJE requirements*
| Element | Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 | Example 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will individual participant data be available (including data dictionaries)? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| What data in particular will be shared? | All individual participant data collected during the trial, after deidentification. | Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification (text, tables, figures, and appendices). | Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification (text, tables, figures, and appendices). | Not available |
| What other documents will be available? | Study protocol, statistical analysis plan, informed consent form, clinical study report, analytic code | Study protocol, statistical analysis plan, analytic code | Study protocol | Not available |
| When will data be available (start and end dates)? | Immediately following publication. No end date. | Beginning at 3 months and ending at 5 years following the article publication. | Beginning at 9 months and ending at 36 months following the article publication. | Not applicable |
| With whom? | Anyone who wishes to access the data. | Researchers who provide a methodologically sound proposal. | Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee (“learned intermediary”) identified for this purpose. | Not applicable |
| For what types of analyses? | Any purpose | To achieve aims in the approved proposal. | For individual participant data meta-analysis. | Not applicable |
| By what mechanism will data be made available? | Data are available indefinitely at (link to be included). | Proposals should be directed to xxx@yyy. To gain access, data requestors will need to sign a data access agreement. | Proposals may be submitted up to 36 months following article publication. After 36 months the data will be available in our University's data warehouse but without investigator support other than deposited metadata. | Not applicable |
| Data are available for 5 years at a third-party website (link to be included). | Information regarding submitting proposals and accessing data may be found at (link to be provided). |
ICMJE = International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
*These examples are
meant to illustrate a range of, but not all, data sharing options.
Journal's policy on ethical oversight
When the Journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct
such as a redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fabricated data, changes in authorship, undisclosed conflicts
of interest, an ethical problem discovered with the submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s
idea or data, complaints against editors, and other issues, the resolving process will follow the flowchart provided
by COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The Editorial Board will discuss the suspected cases and reach a decision. We will not hesitate to publish errata,
corrigenda, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
Upon discovery
of misconduct in research and/or publication ethics, the following actions will be taken: A declaration of manuscript
retraction and its reason will be made public via the journal and website and the incident will be shared with the
funding agency as applicable, as well as the authors’ institution. A written warning will be issued to authors, who
will be banned from submitting manuscripts for a minimum of 3 years. Authors’ membership to the Korea Institute of
Sport Science will also be cancelled.
Journal's policy on intellectual property
All published papers become the permanent property of the Korea Institute of
Sport Science. Copyrights of all published materials are owned by the Korea Institute of Sport Science.
Journal's options for post-publication discussions and corrections
The post-publication discussion is available through ‘Letter to the Editor’. If
any readers have a concern on any articles published, they can submit letters to the editor on the articles. If any
errors or mistakes in the article are found, it can be corrected through errata, corrigenda, or retraction.
The Korean Journal of Sport Science will be published four times per year: March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, and December 31st.
Korean Journal of Sport Science is available free in electronic form at https://kjss.sports.re.kr. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
There are no author submission fees or other publication-related charges. All cost for the publication process is supported by the Publisher. KJSS is a so-called platinum open access journal which does not charge author fees.
Korean Journal of Sport Science is accessible without barrier from Korea Citation Index (https://kci.go.kr) and is archived in the National Library of Korea (http://nl.go.kr) in the event the journal is no longer published.
Revenue sources of journal are from the support of publisher (Korea Institute of Sport Science).
Korean Journal of Sport Science does not accept any commercial product advertisements until policy changes otherwise.
Journal propagation has been done through the journal web site and distribution of an introduction pamphlet. Invitations to submit a manuscript are usually focused on the presenters at conferences, seminars, or workshops if the topic is related to the journal's aims and scope.
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