Official organ:
International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP); Swiss Society for Sports Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SSSPP)
Frequency:
quarterly
Listed in:
Scopus, SPORTDiscus, APA PsycArticles®, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PSYNDEX
Edited by:
Malte Christian Claussen
Sports Psychiatry is an international, fully 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 professionals and researchers interested in the field of sports psychiatry. It is the first international scholarly journal in this field.
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 serves as the official journal of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry and the Swiss Society for Sports Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
Sports Psychiatry is published fully open access and online only. All content is freely available online upon publication on Hogrefe eContent, without any charges for individual or institutional readers. All articles are published with a Creative Commons license (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, or CC BY-NC-ND).
Cooperation with the International Society for Sports Psychiatry
We are thrilled to announce the endorsement of our journal by the International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP). As of now, Sports Psychiatry serves as ISSP's official journal.
Call for papers
Sports Psychiatry is calling for papers for a range of topical issues. Scroll down to read which topics have been chosen for special issues as well as the guidelines for author submission.
Publication ethics
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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 “Is it really 90% mental? Unpacking the role of mental health in performance”
We are inviting manuscript submission for an upcoming issue with the topic “Is it really 90% mental? Unpacking the role of mental health in performance”. We welcome conceptual or empirical manuscripts with an international focus on the topic. This includes review articles, meta-analyses, consensus statements, full original research reports, case-reports, or brief communications, in keeping with the usual article types for Sports Psychiatry.
Extended deadline: Authors are invited to submit a full manuscript due June 15, 2025. An optional letter of intent could be emailed to aschneeberger(at)health.ucsd.edu. All manuscripts will be subject to full editorial board and peer review and must be submitted online. We anticipate that the issue will be published in late Summer 2025.
Read the full call here (PDF).
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Todd Stull, MD, Guest Editor
James Burger, MD, Guest Editor
Malte Claussen, MD, Editor-in-Chief
Andres R. Schneeberger, MD, Associate Editor
Topic “Sleep science in sports”
We are seeking manuscript submissions for our upcoming issue on “Sleep science in sports: exploring the interplay between sleep, physical activity, health, and performance in athletes, general populations, and psychiatric patients”. We welcome conceptual or empirical manuscripts with an international perspective on this topic. This can include review articles, meta-analyses, consensus statements, full original research reports, or brief communications, consistent with our typical article types.
Authors are invited to submit a full manuscript due August 31, 2025. All manuscripts will be subject to full editorial board and peer review and must be submitted online. We anticipate that the issue will be published in November 2025.
Read the full call here (PDF).
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Christin Lang, PhD, Guest Editor
Daniel Erlacher, PhD, Guest Editor
Markus Gerber, PhD, Associate Editor
Cele E. Richardson, PhD, Guest Editor
Shawn Youngstedt, PhD, Guest Editor
Editing and translation services
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Editor-in-Chief
Research Group Sports Psychiatry
Center for Psychiatric Research
Department of Adult Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich
University of Zurich
Lenggstrasse 31
8032 ZurichMarkus Gerber
Department of Sports, Exercise, and Health, University of Basel, Switzerland
Senior Section Editor: Sports and exercise in prevention of and treatment for mental disorders
Andres Ricardo Schneeberger
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Senior Section Editor: Mental health and disorders in competitive and elite sports
Mark R. Allen, Private Practice, Denver, CO, USA
David Baron, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA
Daniel Begel, Private Practice, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Gustavo Bonini Castellana, University of São Paulo, Brazil
James Burger, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Brook Choulet, Private Practice, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Alan Currie, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Carla Edwards, McMaster University, Kitchener, Canada
Ira T. Glick, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Paul Gorczynski, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Karsten Henkel, Christophsbad Hospital, Göppingen, Germany
Christian Imboden, Private Clinic Wyss AG, Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland
Eugene Koh Boon Yau, Putra University, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
David R. McDuff, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ranjit Menon, Mentalogue Clinic, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia
Amit Mistry, Nightingale Hospital, London, UK
Carolyn Nahman, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
Masaki Nishida, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan
Yasutaka Ojio, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
Nicholas Pang Tze Ping, Hospital Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
David Prossor, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Boris Quednow, Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Claudia L. Reardon, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
Alexander Schorb, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
Erich Seifritz, Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Todd Stull, University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, CA, USA
Gary Woods, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
