About the Journal

FOCUS AND SCOPE

Indonesian Journal of Sport and Health Psychology (IJSHP) accepts manuscript research results in the fields of sport psychology, health psychology, psychological intervention, behaviour modification, and sport science. All topics related to these areas are welcome, including applied studies in exercise settings, clinical health psychology, cognitive-behavioral approaches, and performance enhancement.

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

This journal is published in March, August, and November by Universitas Negeri Surabaya.

REVIEWER GUIDELINES

The reviewers of Indonesian Journal of Sport and Health Psychology (IJSHP) will receive the manuscript(s) in the form of MS-word soft file. The detailed evaluative comments for the author’s manuscript are needed, and the comments are written directly in the file. IJSHP will send this commented manuscript(s) to the author(s), therefore please be as comprehensive, specific, and constructive as possible in your comments. We expect that your comments would be helpful to the author(s) in improving their manuscripts. The following format is suggested for preparing comments for the author(s):

  1. Identification of the contribution and major strengths of the paper.
    - Is this paper appropriate for the scope of sport and health psychology?
    - What are the strengths of the paper?
    - What is the main contribution to existing body of knowledge and practice in sport and health psychology?
  2. Major weaknesses of the paper.-
    - Does the manuscript provide sufficient information needed?
    - Is there any mistake that should be corrected?
    - Do the authors achieve their stated objectives?
    - What are the major changes that should be made in a revision?
  3. Readability.
    -  Are the references, tables, and figures made and placed appropriately?
    - Are there sections of the manuscript that can be eliminated or condensed?
    - Will the paper be interesting to both academicians and practitioners (e.g., coaches, athletes, health professionals)? How to improve the paper to deal with this issue?
  4. Abstract and Title
    -     Is the title appropriate given the content of the paper?
    - Does the abstract contain an accurate and useful summary of the content of the paper?
    - If you, as a reviewer, think that it is necessary to alert the editor to issues that would be inappropriate to be included in the comments to the Author(s), you are suggested to write a separate note to the editor.

DUTIES OF REVIEWER

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

General Peer-Review Process
All articles submitted to Indonesian Journal of Sport and Health Psychology (IJSHP) will be read and reviewed blindly (blind peer review) by peer-reviewers who are experts in their fields.

The Editor may assign the reviewer(s) from the journal’s peer-reviewers, author(s)’ suggestion, or other relevant researchers.

The acceptance of an article depends on the novelty of research, significance of the article, truth of the content, the degree of originality, the clarity of description, and the conformity with the objective of this journal.

Articles may be accepted without revision, accepted with minor revision, accepted with major revision, or rejected. The results of reviewed articles by reviewers will be notified to the author via email. The author is given an opportunity to revise his or her article based on the reviewers’ and editor’s suggestion no later than 2 weeks after the email notification.

All incoming articles will be checked for authenticity to prevent plagiarism by using Turnitin and/or iThenticate anti-plagiarism software.

The entire processes from the submission until the publication of articles are free of charge (no article processing and submission charges). All articles published in Indonesian Journal of Sport and Health Psychology are open access under the Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.

SPONSOR

The main sponsor of Indonesian Journal of Sport and Health Psychology (IJSHP) is the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Surabaya.

AUTHOR FEES

This journal charges the following author fees:

  • Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)

  • Article Publication: 0.00 (IDR)

No fees are required for submission, processing, or publication of articles.