The European Journal of Sport Science (EJSS) is the official Medline- and Thomson Reuters-listed journal of the European College of Sport Science. The journal promotes the highest standards of scientific study and scholarship in respect of the following fields:
Each section has a number of Associate Editors responsible for quality, scientific rigor and submissions to their section. The full editorial team (including the Editorial Board) and structure can be found here.
Our vision
Influencing knowledge and practice around the world.
Our missions
- Publish high quality, innovative science.
- Promote excellence in publishing.
- Empower scientists with the tools and knowledge they need to make an impact with their research.
- Maintain a stable revenue stream to support the editorial team and activities within the College.
Proud sponsor of the YIA
EJSS is the proud sponsor of the ECSS Young Investigators Award. By creating this connection, the College has brought together two of its key missions:
- Disseminating high quality, innovative science
- Empowering the development of young scientists
You can read more about the College’s vision here. It has been a long term ambition of the ECSS to fund this prestigious award and highlight the excellence of young scientists from around the world. Given the ongoing success of the journal and continuous development of its activities, EJSS is in a strong position to do this. ECSS hopes that this partnership will see even more high quality publications from ECSS YIA winners reach the audience of the journal.
What does this mean?
The College is reinvesting the journal’s success back into the promotion and development of young scientists through the ECSS YIA programme. This link will create a platform for young scientists to develop as researchers and become future authors, reviewers, and editors of EJSS and other scientific journals.
Find out more about the ECSS YIA
Open access and Copyright
EJSS is a gold open access journal published by Wiley.
All articles published by the European Journal of Sport Science are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download, and share. For more information about publishing open access with EJSS, please refer to the official journal website here. All articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license. Copyright on any research article published by the European Journal of Sport Science is retained by the author(s). Further information about open access licenses and copyright can be found here. View the authors guidelines here.
ECSS members are entitled to a 20% discount on APC fees. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.for more details.
Publication details
EJSS publishes 12 issues per year.
Print ISSN: 1746-1391 Online ISSN: 1536-7290.