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European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity

Aims and Scope

European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity (EUJAPA) is an international, multidisciplinary journal, introduced to communicate, share and stimulate academic inquiry focusing on physical activity of persons with special needs. Articles appearing in EUJAPA reflect cross disciplinary nature of the academic discipline of adapted physical activity ranging from physical education, through sport, recreation, rehabilitation, dance, sport medicine or health care.

EUJAPA is the official journal of the European Federation of Adapted Physical Activity. This multidisciplinary journal provides the latest academic inquiry related to physical activity for special populations. Regular features include qualitative and quantitative research studies, case studies, review articles (narrative reviews by invitation), viewpoints, methodological guidelines, and editorial commentary.

  • Publication Model: Open Access (CC-BY license) - PDF format.
  • Frequency: From 2022, continuous (Prior to this i.e. 2021 and earlier two issues; Spring and Autumn)
  • Launch date: 2008
  • Online ISSN: 1803-3857
  • Peer Review Model: Double blind peer review; reviewer and author are not known to each other. Reviews are not published online.
  • The journal is indexed in the databases SCOPUS and EBSCO.
  • The journal is listed on DOAJ, ERIH PLUS and JUFO

Open Access Statement

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Submitted for open access publication under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This journal uses the digital archiving policy of the Palacky University library and CLOCKKS

Authors can store published papers on any repository, any website, on author's homepages, institutional repositories, named repositories (PubMed Central, arXiv), preprint repository, and the journal website. The conditions of this should be the published source must be acknowledged with citation. Policies regarding authors' ability to deposit versions of the papers are recorded on Sherpa/Romeo

Article Submission Charges

There are no Article Submission Charges for publishing in EUJAPA.

Article Processing Charges

There are no Article Processing Charges for publishing in EUJAPA.

Review Process

After receiving the submission, the managing editors check the submission and decide whether it is in compliance with the requirements stated in author guidelines and whether it fits within the scope of the journal. Submissions are then assigned to at least two peer-reviewers. To ensure the integrity of the double blind peer-review for submissions to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. Authors names are blinded to the reviewers. Reviewers are blinded to the authors. The reviewers are asked to confirm to do the review within one week. Once they have confirmed their willingness to do the review they have between 4-8 weeks to carry out the review.

In the case of submissions where the authors are the Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Editor (with full access to the editorial system), an open review process would be carried out. In this way, the authors and the reviewers will be known to each other. This will be communicated to both authors and reviewers. Submissions by other editors undergo the standard double blind review process, as they do not have full access to the editorial system and can only see the papers they are assigned to. In all cases, the review procedure will be handled without the involvement of the editors who are authors on the paper.

Publication Ethics

The ethics statements for our journal concerning authors, reviewers and editors are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

  • Editors maintain fair play for submission, confidentiality concerning manuscripts, and Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the decision to publish articles.
  • Peer reviewers assists the Editor-in-Chief in making editorial decisions, may assist authors to improve the manuscript, respond to requests by the Editor-in-Chief, as well as maintain confidentiality, and professionalism when carrying out the review. Furthermore, identify works that have not been correctly cited by the authors and discloses any conflict of interests.
  • Authors report original works, not submitted to other journals at the same time, ensure any works taken from other sources are cited appropriately, acknowledge the relevant sources. Only authors who have made contributions that constitute as authors can be included and authors have the responsibility to make disclosures or conflicts of interest. Finally, should authors notice fundamental errors in published work, they would notify the Editor-in-Chief for the next steps such as retraction or publish an appropriate erratum.

Disclaimer

The authors, editors, and publisher will not accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made in this publication. The statements and opinions contained in the articles of EUJAPA are solely those of the individual authors and not of the editors or publisher.

Publisher

European Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (EUFAPA) Tr. Míru 115 Olomouc, 771 11 Czech Republic

Principal Contact

Florentina Hettinga

Northumbria University, United Kingdom

Email: eujapa.journal@gmail.com

Support Contact

Kwok Ng

University of Limerick, Ireland
University of Turku, Finland
Lithuanian Sports University, Lithunia

Email: eujapa.journal@gmail.com