Associate editors
Markus Gerber
Department of Sports, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Andres Ricardo Schneeberger
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
others to be defined
Sports Psychiatry is an international open access, peer-reviewed journal providing a platform for advances in all aspects of sports psychiatry, including but not limited to the diagnosis, management, therapy, and prevention of mental disorders in competitive and popular sports, as well as to physical activity in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders.
The journal aims to publish high-quality original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, consensus statements, brief reports, editorials, and letters to the editor for a wide audience of healthcare professionals and researchers interested in the field of sports psychiatry.
The target audience are sports psychiatrists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, adult psychiatrists, sports physicians, pediatricians and general practitioners, clinical psychologists, sports psychologists, mental trainers and other professional coaches, physical therapists and sports physical therapists, sports scientists, other disciplines, as well as sports organizations and associations.
Sports Psychiatry is the first journal in this field. It is supported by the Swiss Society for Sports Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SSSPP).
We are looking forward to receiving your manuscript for Sports Psychiatry.
Before submitting your work, please read and follow the detailed Instructions to authors carefully.
All manuscripts must be submitted online via Editorial Manager.
Article publication charge
In order to cover the costs of publishing the journal, including those of manuscript submission and peer review management, journal production, online hosting and archiving, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, as well as online distribution and data feeds to libraries, discovery services, content aggregators, and other information services, an article publication charge (APC) must be paid. Price details are provided in the open access order form. Authors from German and Swiss institutions participating in transformative agreements are entitled to 25% reduction on the APC.
In addition, as detailed in the waiver policy and application form, Hogrefe is currently offering a generous waiver program for eligible authors. Eligible papers shall include papers by authors who do not have access to publication fee grants or funding, papers by authors who are not employed or funded by commercial organizations, and other papers as may from time to time be agreed by Hogrefe.
Sports Psychiatry publishes articles on all aspects of sports psychiatry and we welcome submissions on those topics at any time. Moreover, we are currently soliciting papers on the following topics in particular.
Topic “Physical activity and exercise in the prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders”
We are soliciting manuscripts for inclusion in an issue of Sports Psychiatry – Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry, on the topic of “Physical activity and exercise in the prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders”.
We welcome conceptual or empirical manuscripts with an international focus on the topic. This can include review articles, meta-analyses, consensus statements, full original research reports, or brief communications, in keeping with the usual article types for Sports Psychiatry.
Authors are invited to submit a full manuscript due June 5, 2022. An optional letter of intent should be emailed to markus.gerber(at)unibas.ch by January 15, 2022. All manuscripts will be subject to full editorial board and peer review. We anticipate that the issue will be published in Summer 2022.
Find the full call here (PDF).
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Markus Gerber, PhD, Associate Editor
Todd Stull, M.D., Guest Editor
Malte Claussen, M.D. Editor-in-Chief
Topic “Psychiatric issues of ‘doping’ in sports”
We are soliciting manuscripts for inclusion in an issue of Sports Psychiatry – Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry, on the topic of “Psychiatric issues of ‘doping’ in sports”.
We welcome conceptual or empirical manuscripts with an international focus on the topic. This can include review articles, meta-analyses, consensus statements, full original research reports, or brief communications, in keeping with the usual article types for Sports Psychiatry.
Authors are invited to submit a full manuscript due August 15, 2022. An optional letter of intent should be emailed to samuel.iff(at)pm.me. All manuscripts will be subject to full editorial board and peer review. All accepted papers will be published in advance. We anticipate that the issue will be published in Winter 2022.
Read the full call here (PDF).
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Katinka van de Ven, PhD, Guest Editor
Bengt Kayser, PhD, Guest Editor
Samuel Iff, M.D., Editorial Board Member
Malte Claussen, M.D., Editor-in-Chief
Topic “Interpersonal violence in sports”
We invite submission of manuscripts for publication in an issue of Sports Psychiatry – Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry, on the topic of “Interpersonal violence in sports”.
We welcome conceptual or empirical manuscripts with an international focus on the topic. This can include review articles, meta-analyses, consensus statements, full original research reports, or brief communications, in keeping with the usual article types for Sports Psychiatry.
Authors are invited to submit a full manuscript by October 15, 2022. An optional letter of intent should be emailed to ralph.schmidt(at)pukzh.ch. All manuscripts will be subject to full editorial board and peer review. All accepted papers will be published in advance. We anticipate that the issue will be published in the 1st quarter 2023.
Read the full call here (PDF).
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Carla Edwards, M.D., Guest Editor
Ralph E. Schmidt, Ph.D., Guest Editor
Malte C. Claussen, M.D., Editor-in-Chief
Topic: “Physical activity and sport in child and adolescent psychiatry”
We invite submissions of manuscripts for publication in an issue of Sports Psychiatry – Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry, on the topic of "Physical activity and sport in child and adolescent psychiatry".
We welcome conceptual or empirical manuscripts with an international focus on the topic. This can include review articles, meta-analyses, consensus statements, full original research reports, or brief communications, in keeping with the usual article types for Sports Psychiatry.
Authors are invited to submit a full manuscript by January 15, 2023. An optional letter of intent can be emailed to sebastian.ludyga(at)unibas.ch. All manuscripts will be subject to full editorial board and peer review. Accepted papers will be published online in advance. We anticipate that the issue will be published in Spring 2023.
Read the full call here (PDF).
We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!
Sebastian Ludyga, Ph.D., Guest Editor
Alain Di Gallo, M.D., Guest Editor
Peter Weber, M.D., Guest Editor
Malte Claussen, M.D., Editor-in-Chief
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Editor-in-Chief
Sports psychiatry
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich
University of Zurich
Lenggstrasse 31
8032 ZurichMarkus Gerber
Department of Sports, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Andres Ricardo Schneeberger
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
others to be defined
Alan Currie, Newcastle (United Kingdom)
Carla Edwards, Hamilton (Canada)
Ira T. Glick, Stanford, CA (USA)
Karsten Henkel, Goeppingen/Aachen (Germany)
Carlos Gonzalez Hofmann, Romanshorn (Switzerland)
Ulrich Michael Hemmeter, Wil (Switzerland)
Samuel Iff, Bern (Switzerland)
Christian Imboden, Münchenbuchsee (Switzerland)
Ranjit Menon, Melbourne (Australia)
Boris Quednow, Zurich (Switzerland)
Marcel Ivan Raas, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Erich Seifritz, Zurich (Switzerland)
Todd Stull, Riverside, CA (USA)
Gary Woods, Belfast (United Kingdom)
others to be defined
Sports Psychiatry is published quarterly and open access and online only. All published content is available on Hogrefe eContent.