Announcements

• JIS Second Issue of 2026 is Published

  2026-05-13

  JIS Community,

   

  We are proud to share the second issue of the 2026 Journal of Intercollegiate Sport volume. Below is a list of the new articles published with a range of topics and methodological approaches.

   

  New Issue

   

  Perceived Stress and Burnout: Experiences of College Coaches in NCAA Division III Institutions

  Stephanie M. Singe, Scott Testori, Rachel S. Berkowsky, & Christianne M. Eason

   

  C.A.R.E. To Challenge Stigma? A Directed Qualitative Content Analysis of Division I Mental Health Webpages

  Tyler A. Williams, Lauren Beasley, Beth Cianfrone, & Jay Kennedy

   

  An Analysis of Female Division I Student-Athlete Expenditures and NACDA Director’s Cup Points

  Megan Donahue, James Johnson, Zachary Evans, & Michael Dalgety

   

  ‘I Think. I Play. Therefore, I Am:’ How Precollege Experiences, Intersecting Identities, and College Microsystems Impact Belonging and Academic Self-Efficacy for Black Women’s Basketball College Athletes at PWIs

  Deborah V. Hogan, & Stephanie Z. Jones

   

  Benchmarks and boundaries: A content analysis of student-athlete development programs for women

  Sarah Stokowski, Sylvia Blanton, Janna M. Butler, Kelly Torres, Bridget Babcock, Amanda L. Paule-Koba, & Chris Corr

   

  Transfer Networks and Talent Flow in the Football Bowl Subdivision Transfer Portal

  N. David Pifer

   

  A Scoping Review of Athlete Burnout Among University Student-Athletes

  Katrina J. Waldhauser, Selina Chen, Stefanie Atkinson, & Desmond McEwan

   

  Developing the Concept of Financial Modernization within a Historical Review of College Football Stadium Construction

  Tiffany Demiris, & Chad Seifried

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• First 2026 JIS Issue is Published + Journal Updates

  2026-01-28

  JIS Community,

   

  Happy start to 2026! I hope everyone is surviving from the winter blast through most of the U.S. this past week. We are happy to announce our first 2026 issue! We also have lots of good news related to the journal, including being listed on Scopus, our first journal impact metrics, and our reviewer decision time averaging below 17 days!

   

  New Issue

  Here is our 2026 first issue and a link to each article!

   

   Understanding the Experiences of Para-Collegiate Student-Athletes: A Mixed Methods Study

  Derek Whaley, Jasmine Townsend, Christy Brown, Cedomir Stanojevic, Ramon Zabriskie

   

  “No One’s Thriving During Football Season”: A Narrative Inquiry on the Biopsychosocial Well-Being of Collegiate Athletic Administrators and Their Partners

  Lauren Beasley, Elizabeth A. Taylor, Kelsie Saxe, Robin Hardin

   

  A Comparative Analysis of Name, Image, and Likeness Policies at NCAA Institutions

  Jaxon Wiley, Adam R. Cocco, Ashleigh Antal, Sarah Stokowski, Chris Corr

   

  Chasing the AD Chair: Bridging Career Paths, Professional Development, and Mentorship from Classroom to Athletic Department Leadership

  Kelly Elliott, Donald Rockey, Riley Forrester

   

  Driven To Lead: Gendered Differences in Leadership Competencies Among NCAA Athletes

  Karina Jolly, Jake Simms, Chris Corr, Sarah Stokowski, Amanda Paule-Koba

   

  Why are they leaving?: An investigation into the experiences of Division I men’s basketball athletes who enter the transfer portal

  Despina M. Evangelopoulos, Hannah R. Kloetzer, Elizabeth A. Taylor

   

  “Mission Impossible: Maintaining Higher Education’s Purpose in an Age of College Sports Revenue Sharing Through a Student-Athlete Holistic Development Framework”

  Deborah Hogan

   

  “You Never Saw the Light at the End of the Tunnel”: Examining the Developmental Impacts of the Redshirt Freshman Year

  Hannah Kloetzer, Molly Harry

   

  Examining Athletic Academic Advisors’ Experiences: A College Athlete Mental Health Approach

  Jessica K. Brougham, Nicholas Swim, Lisa M. Rubin

   

   

  Journal Updates

  I wanted to provide everyone with an update on journal activities and metrics!

  • Journal Metrics
    • New Low for Review Time!
  • Scopus Acceptance
  • ABDC Submission
  • Web of Science
  • Creation of a Generative AI Policy
  • EOB Changes
  • Reminder of Practitioner Contributions

   

   

  Journal Metrics

  Lot of positive data points here pointing to the continued improvement in journal performance and interest from prospective authors. Huge thanks to our editorial board and guest reviewers to achieving these numbers!

  • Submissions were way up this year, as 85 articles were submitted in 2025. This was an increase of 73% from the previous year. It was an all-time high for submissions for JIS since joining KU Press and likely an all-time high for the journal’s history
  • Completed reviews also reached an all-time high (142)
  • The journal published 21 papers last year, tying our all-time since since joining KU Press in a non-special issue volume.
  • Our review time reached a new low, with the average reviewer completing their review in 16.88 days.
  • We started tracking days from manuscript submission-to-decision this year. JIS averaged 22.51 days. When backtracking this data, this is an all-time low for the journal. We have shrunk this number from 50.25 days in 2023.
  • Average of 30 days for article submission-to-rejection
  • Average of 125 days for article submission-to-acceptance
  • Average days of first decision is 2 days

   

   

  Scopus Acceptance

  The Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has reviewed our application and approved it for coverage. This means that all articles posted from the final 2025 issue and beyond will be listed on Scopus and be considered in their citescore calculation. Scopus Citescore is their comprehensive metric for measuring impact for academic journals. Since acceptance, JIS has a 1.0 citescore. For comparison’s sake, Journal of Sport Management’s 2025 citescore is 7.0. This metric will provide published/prospective authors with data to justify the quality of their publication on merit review, promotion & tenure submissions, and other scholarly tracking considerations.

   

  ABDC Submission

  We have applied for being listed on the Australian Business Dean’s Council Journal Quality List in Summer 2025. They are expected to post their decision and updated list in early 2026.

   

   

  Web of Science

  Our application was reviewed and declined. WoS provided the editorial team feedback on changes that would be necessary to consider further review. We can re-submit the journal for review in two years.

   

   

  Creation of a Generative AI Policy

  Generative Artificial Intelligence has become a growing resource in academia and scholarly writing. We expect its involvement to only grow. Therefore, the JIS editorial team and review board has created an AI Policy. The policy has implications for authors, reviewers, and the editorial leadership team. The full details of the policy are posted on the journal’s website (JIS homepage  About  AI Policy).

   

   

  Editorial Board Changes

  We have made changes to our editorial board since Summer 2025. Editorial board members Brian Turner, Janelle Wells, Barbara Osborne, Billy Hawkins, Nicole Melton, and Michael Sagas recently rotated off the board. We thank them for their countless contributions to the journal! We have added several scholars to the board in the past few months. Please welcome Jessica Brougham, Chris Corr, Natalie Bunch, and James Johnson to the editorial board. Each of these scholars have already been providing vital contributions to the journal as guest reviewers and we expect that exceptional work to continue.

   

   

  Reminder of Practitioner Contributions

  Just a quick reminder that JIS create a new submission option called Practitioner Contributions. Information on this submission option is listed under the ‘Submit to Journal’ tab on the homepage.

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• Final 2025 Issue - Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  2025-10-09

  Happy October to our JIS Community! I’ll save the journal updates for January as a yearly review and comparison to where things stand. We do have some exciting news on the horizon for journal indexing(!). For now, check out our 2025 final issue with nine new articles, which has some exciting, wide-ranging topics that we are thrilled to share with our audience:

   

  What Factors Drive NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Attendance; Do Free Tickets Equal More Fans?

  Katrina Konopka, Nels Popp, Jonathan A. Jensen, Craig A. Morehead

   

  Identifying Barriers to Mental Health Care For Canadian Student-Athletes: A Narrative Approach

  Robert Baker

   

  The Evolving Demands and Resources of Live Entertainment: The Development of a Job Demands Resources Sport (JDRS) Model

  Janelle E. Wells, Cheryl E. Gray, Elizabeth A. Taylor

  Student-Athletes’ Road to Success in College Life: Factors Influencing Psychological Well-being, Athletic, and Academic Performance

  Seok Kang, Adel Alaeddini

   

  The Athletic Reckoning: A Study of Former College Athletes’ Identity, Realization, and Career Preparation

  Edward Horne, Jessica Siegele, Ryan Swanson, Gemma Miller

   

  Understanding College Athlete Mental Health: Insights from Division I Athletic Department Personnel

  Tarkington Newman, Danielle Renner, Melissa Bessaha, Lauren Beasley, Patricia Kelshaw, Dolores Cimini, Valerie Moyer, Levone Lee, Adrienne Ekas, Kelly Thorne, Nadine Mastroleo, Marsha Florio

   

  Going Beyond a Training to Foster LGBTQ Inclusive Collegiate Athletic Contexts: Next Steps

  Christi R. McGeorge, Ashley A. Walsdorf, Russell B. Toomey

   

  How Revelations of Mental Health Issues Harm Recruitment of College Student-Athletes

  Maria Budin, Lennie Waite, Dillon Stewart, Elisabeth Silver, Michelle R Hebl

   

  College Athlete Resilience: Achieving Mental Wellbeing During a Pandemic

  Levone Lee, Tarkington J Newman, Lauren Beasley, Carlyn Kimiecik, Kaylee Palomino, Rebecca Bosetti

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• New Issue & Journal Updates – Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  2025-05-23

  JIS Community,

   

  Happy Summer everyone!

   

  I am happy to announce that our second issue of 2025 has now been published. We have a great list of newly published articles that discuss a wide-range of college sport topics. Thank you again for our authors' hard work! Check them out below:

   

   

   

   

  University Stakeholder Perceptions of NCAA Reclassification during the Transition Period: A Case Study of the University of North Alabama

  Jim Watkins & Ella Bennett

   

   

  An Illustration of Hope: An Anti-Deficit Approach to Understand the Lived Experiences of Black Women Athletic Administrators

  Leah Brundidge, Kristi Oshiro, Andrew Goldsmith, & Sayvon Foster

   

  Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS

  Scott Hirko, Maria Tsyruleva, & Jodi Upton

   

  The Effects of Postseason College Football Bowl Games on Recruiting: A Discontinuity-Based Approach

  Willis Jones

   

   

  Lost in Translation: Why Sport-based and Grassroots Activism May Be the Path to Equity in NIL Opportunities for International College Athletes

  Emily M. Newell & Simran Kaur Sethi

   

  Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness

  Leeann Lower-Hoppe, W. Andrew Czekanski, Daniel Springer, Brittani Becher, J Patrick Marsh, & Richard 'JR' Rathjens

   

   

  Journal Updates

  We have a few journal updates for mid-2025.

   

  • JIS Fellow
  • Practitioner Contributions
  • Upcoming Editorial Board Changes
  • 2025 Journal Submission - Data

   

   

  JIS Fellow

  After a year (plus) of considering a journal fellowship designation and working on fellow parameters, we have approved a Journal of Intercollegiate Sport Fellowship Award. I appreciate the support from our journal’s editorial board on giving excellent feedback. You will notice that our journal’s homepage now includes a tab for JIS Fellow and the requirements. Below (in italics) is the full review of the qualifications:

   

  • Four published works in JIS
    • At least one of those works being a first-author contribution
  • Reviewed six separate submissions at JIS as either a guest reviewer or editorial board member.
    • Separate submissions constitute different manuscripts, not revisions to a previously submitted manuscript.
    • No review records for JIS under the NCAA or Human Kinetics still exist, but these can count if the scholars still possess the e-mail correspondence for their completed reviews.
  • Complete 10 academic or practitioner presentations at a regional, national, or international conference on a collegiate sport topic. To count towards this requirement, the presentation must fulfill the following requirements.
    • Be presented at College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) or National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA)
    • Presentations that include a version of “college sport” in the title or include data collection within college sport stakeholders will count (the editor-in-chief will have final say on any interpretations)
    • At least three of those presentations being a first-author contribution

  Practitioner Contribution

  Similar to the JIS Fellow, we have spent time considering other submission options for our audience that provides diverse, unique voices to contribute to the conversation. Dr. Elizabeth Taylor led the initiative to create the practitioner contribution option here at JIS. This option and its qualifications are described in full below (in italics):

   

  In addition to contributing to theorical advancements related to collegiate sport, a goal of the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport is to provide practical insights to our understanding of intercollegiate athletics and efforts to effect change or reform. As such, we – as the journal’s editorial leadership – are continually looking for avenues to diversify the voices and work published by the journal. Working closely with a group of college sport practitioners, we have created a new submission option to help aid in the dissemination of research with greater practical applications.

   

  In recognition of the constantly evolving field of collegiate athletics and in appreciation of the experiences of collegiate sport practitioners, the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport is excited to announce our new Practitioner Contributions submission option. The goal of Practitioner Contributions submissions is to bridge the gap between traditional academic research – which is typically focused on theoretical advancement – and real-world applications.

   

  Practitioner Contributions submissions can include conceptual pieces, case studies, and/or empirical research that provides strong managerial implications and is written in a practitioner-focused manner.

   

  We invite submissions from collegiate sport employees, including coaches, support staff (e.g., certified athletic trainers, strength and conditioning coaches), and administrators, student-athletes, higher education leadership (e.g., university president), organizational leadership (e.g., NCAA, conference administrators), and collaborative teams of practitioners and researchers.

   

  Practitioner Contributions submissions typically have a word count between 5,000-8,000 words and should follow all journal guidelines with respect to format and APA referencing. Practitioner Contributions submissions will undergo the typical double-blind peer review process of other Journal of Intercollegiate Sport submission that includes two peer-reviewers. An effort will be made to include an industry professional (i.e., collegiate sport employee) as one of the peer-reviewers.

   

  Topics for Practitioner Contributions could include (but are not limited to):

  1. Future of Intercollegiate Sport
  2. Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)
  3. Models for Revenue Sharing
  4. Student-Athlete Development (including leadership education, holistic development, etc.)
  5. Experiences at NCAA Division II and III
  6. Experiences within leagues outside the NCAA (e.g., NAIA, NJCAA)
  7. Employee Experiences

  Upcoming Editorial Board Changes

  Most of the editorial board will be up for renewal this summer. We also have seen a consistent increase in journal submissions the past couple years. Therefore, we likely will have editorial board member change within the next couple months. Before any changes, we want to thank our current editorial board for excellent service and providing excellent feedback and turnaround times for submitting authors.

   

  2025 Journal Submission – Data

  I usually provide a full review of journal data at the end or beginning of the year, but I wanted to provide one small update. We had a dip in submissions last year (down 23%) but we are way up this year (+63%) so far. I want to thank our (growing) audience for your trust and support of coming to JIS to publish your work.

   

  Matt Huml, PhD

  Associate Professor

  Doctoral Program Coordinator

  Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  School of Human Services

  University of Cincinnati

  Cincinnati, OH 45221

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• First 2025 JIS Issue is Published + Journal Updates

  2025-02-21

  Our first issue of the 2025 volume is now published! We have all new articles below. Additionally, we have several journal updates below the issue information, including our big publication year, journal metrics, and review times.

   

   

  The Impact of Esports on the Habits, Health, and Wellness of the Collegiate Player

  Julie Delello, Rochell McWhorter, Sangok Yoo, Paul Roberts, &Beth Adele

   

  Exploring Intercollegiate Adaptive Athletics Program Structures: An Application of Open Systems Theory

  Jasmine Townsend, Breida Hill, &Brandi Crowe

   

  Who does this benefit? A consideration of demographics in the access and impact of retirement from college sport programming

  Hannah R. Kloetzer, Molly Harry, & Elizabeth A. Taylor

   

  “One of the Most Satisfying Parts of the Job”: The Perceived Mattering and Role Satisfaction of NCAA Faculty Athletic Representatives

  Allison Smith, Robin Hardin, Elizabeth Taylor, Jessica Siegele, & Kelsie Saxe

   

  Athletic ability, performance, and character: A hierarchical examination of prospective college athlete evaluation and the function of recruiting as institutional work

  Drew Swinney, Chris Corr, Sarah Stokowski, & Mike Godfrey

   

  An Ethical Application to Student-Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Sponsorship

  John Fortunato

   

  
  
  
  Journal Updates

  I wanted to provide everyone with an update on journal activities, as we have stayed active in the second half of 2023. Lots of great nuggets!

   

  • Big Publication Year – New Highs
  • Editorial Board Changes
  • New Low Review Time
  • Other Journal Data
  • Journal Ranking/Listing - Update
  • Finalizing Journal Fellow Designation

   

   

  Big Publication Year – New Highs

  Journal of Intercollegiate Sport had several years of growth and support that culminated into an excellent 2024 publication year. The journal published their most articles in a calendar year that didn’t include a special issue. This is also the first year where JIS published the most articles for a college sport-focused journal. This is a big testament to our editorial board, submitting authors, guest reviewers, and audience. Thank you!

   

  Editorial Board Changes

  We have added one new editorial board member, as Lauren Beasley at Georgia State has joined our team. Welcome, Dr. Beasley!

   

  New Low Review Time

  We have broken our record for average time for manuscript review. We are now averaging 20.97 days for a reviewer to return a manuscript to the editorial team, down from 24.79 days in 2023 and 38.25 days in 2022. This is an important metric because we know it’s important for our authors and our journal to review and turn-around manuscripts quickly.

   

  Other Journal Data

  Lots of other nuggets to share:

  • Our journal article downloads tripled last year from 2023 and 2022.
  • This was our fourth year out of the last five where the journal acceptance rate was 30% or lower.
  • We tied our journal yearly record high of 125 completed manuscript reviews.
  • Days to first decision has gone from 11 days in 2021 to 2 days in 2024.
  • Submissions were down in 2024 (49) compared to 2023 (63).
  • Days from submission to accept increased from 175 (2023) to 197 (2024).
    • I want to mention that this number increased because a manuscript was given a long reprieve because of an author death. We are still well below journal averages (369 days).
  • Days from submission to reject decreased from 38 days (2023) to 19 days (2024).

   

  Journal Ranking/Listing - Update

  It’s been a priority to complete the necessary steps to have JIS listed on the journal metrics and journal tracking organizations. This is being done to support faculty research, increase the interest of JIS for prospective authors, and assess our journal’s quality with our peers. As of 2/16, the JIS editors have submitted applications to Web of Science and Scopus for journal indexing. We also will submit an application to the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

   

  Finalizing Journal Fellow Designation

  We gave an update last year of exploring a fellow designation for Journal of Intercollegiate Sport. We have collected some metrics and will be sharing the initial plans with our editorial board in the near future, with a full announcement scheduled for later in 2025.

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• Final 2024 Issue – Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  2024-11-08

  JIS Community,

   

  Excited to publish a third issue for the 17^th volume of Journal of Intercollegiate Sport. While normally our journal is a bi-annual publication, we have seen an increase in submissions and demand that necessitated a third issue this year. I’ll save the journal updates for January as a yearly review and comparison to where things stand. For now, see below for the new issue articles:

   

   

  New Issue

   

  Editorial

  In memoriam of Emeka Anaza

   

   

  Articles

   

  Beyond the Hashtags: The Impacts of Self-Promotion and Social Media on Sleep and Mental Health among Student-Athletes

  Nina Adjanin & Rhonda Cross Beemer

   

   

  The Effect of Athletic Identity and Other Factors on Adaptation to Sport Retirement

  Andrea Cota Powell, Patti Berg-Poppe, Andrew C. Pickett, Moses Ikiugu, & Whitney Lucas Molitor

   

   

  Adversity and Resiliency: Athlete Experiences within U.S. College Sport 

  Erianne Weight, Jack Mitchell Haroldson, Molly Harry, & Ellie Rudd

   

   

  A Content Analysis of the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport: 2008-2022

  Dylan Williams, Gregg Rich, Olivia Durham, & Kevin Doran

   

   

  College Sport Communicator Leaders’ Perceptions of Sport Information Operations

  Kelly Elliott

   

   

  Closing Time: Open Records Law and College Athletics

  James Scott White

   

   

  An Exploration of Student-Athletes Perception on the Athletic Trainer/Coach Relationship: Case Study on Social Support 

  Nikki Owens & Emeka Anaza

   

   

  NIL and Higher Education: An Exploration of the Early Impact of NIL on Fundraising and Competition in Universities and Athletic Departments

  Wesley Meares, Lance Hunter, Martha Ginn, & William Hatcher

   

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• Second 2024 Issue & Journal Updates – Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  2024-06-12

  JIS Community,

   

  Happy Summer everyone!

   

  First, I am happy to announce that our second issue of the 2024 year has now been published. As I mentioned in the last announcement, we’ve had a significant increase in submissions recently, which is great news for our journal and our community. Because of that, we will have a third regular issue for later this year, likely released in mid- or late fall semester. This would be an additional issue for the journal based on recent norms, but it is warranted because of the increased author interest.

   

   

  New Issue

  “Is it Hard Out Here for a Player?”: Understanding the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Athletic Identity Among College Student Athletes

  Courtney Copeland, Dr. Amy Reynolds, Jessica Ackley

   

  Follower-Leader Development: Uncovering Micro-moments of Female Student-athlete Leader Development

  Zack Damon, Jon Welty Peachey, Janelle Wells, Drew Pickett, Jeff Ward

   

  Examining classroom learning behaviors academic and athletic motivation in collegiate athletes

  Kayleigh Hart, Leilani Madrigal, Alison Ede, Jana Fogaca

   

  Coaching Transition and Nature of Change: An Examination of NCAA DI Team Sports

  James Johnson, Nick Elam, Davis Matz

   

  Understanding The Lived Experiences of Black Female College Athletes and Factors that Influence their Anxiety.

  Luka Ojemaye, Joyce Olushola-Ogunrinde, Billy Hawkins, & Michael Cottingham

   

  Promoting Coaches on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Posts Featuring NCAA Division I Coaches of Women’s Sports 

  Martina Santia, Jodi Upton, Scott Hirko

   

  "From Sweats to Suits": Administrators' Recommendations For Student-Athlete Career Development Services.

  Jackson Sears, Natalie Bunch, Tyler Williams, Beth A. Cianfrone

   

  Journal Updates

  I wanted to provide everyone with an update on journal activities. Variety of topics and happy to hear your feedback.

  • Manuscript Guideline Changes
  • New Student Editor
  • Editorial Board Changes
  • Journal Data
  • Implementation of Issue Art
  • Future Plans

   

  Manuscript Guideline Changes – We made our anticipated manuscript guideline changes this week. After having a couple years in this role and getting feedback from all of you, we have tried to clarify and adjust our guidelines. We have made changes to word count limits, double-spaced submissions,

   

  New Student Editor – Please welcome Morgan Antonazzo to our JIS leadership team. Morgan is a University of Cincinnati graduate student in the sport administration program. She will be starting on July 1^st and will be providing support on copyedit, web site, and communication responsibilities between authors and reviewers. We are fortunate that the University of Cincinnati is willing to provide support for us to hire a student editor.

   

  Editorial Board Changes – Since the last update we have added two new editorial board members. Molly Harry (University of Florida) and Simran Sethi (University of Kentucky) are our new board members and have already supported our submissions in the past two years.

   

  Journal Data- #NerdData. I’ll save the bigger data dump for the first 2025 issue announcement for the 2024 data, but here is a quick snippet on how much more work is going on behind the scenes related to increased submissions and completed reviews.

  • 2023 Completed Reviews (As of June 10^th): 43
  • 2024 Completed Reviews (As of June 10^th): 73

   

  Implementation of Issue Art – We have added open access art to each issue in 2024. Feel free to check out our first two choices for this year.

   

  Future Plans - Here are a few things being planned for the future:

  • In lieu of a special issue, we plan on making a call on “Topics of Interest” – where we will highlight a couple research topics the editorial team believes is an underserved or burgeoning topic for our field. This would allow us to make the announcement to give authors time to make a submission, use the same process and editors, and emphasizes a greater interest from the editors to prospective authors looking to start research on these topics or looking for a journal home related to their ongoing work. Once we finalize this, we will send out an announcement through the respective channels.
  • We are also considering a JIS Fellow designation and should be finalizing these details soon. We want to champion some of the great scholars within the college sport research area and those that have been important JIS stakeholders.

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• New Issue & Journal Updates – Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  2024-02-19

  JIS Community,

  I hope everyone is having a great spring semester. We have lots of new information to provide to our community.

  First, I am happy to announce that our first issue of the 2024 year has now been published. We’ve had a growing number and quality of submissions to JIS, which is showcased by the excellent and diverse set of topics in our new issue.

  New Issue

  Examining the framing of mental health in Division I student-athlete handbooks
  David Cassilo, Jimmy Sanderson

  Examining Faculty Perspectives on the Role and Value of Intercollegiate Athletics
  Molly Harry, Daniel Springer

  Good student-athlete representation
  Vicki Schull, Lisa A. Kihl 

  “We are the minority”: Latinx student-athletes experiences within their Predominantly White Institutions
  Melody Alanis, George B. Cunningham, Natasha T. Brison

  Identity Dynamics in Collegiate Olympic Athletes Post-Tokyo 2020: A Pre-Post Study
  Grace Kazmierski-Davie, Khalid Ballouli

  Reframing the Service Environment in Collegiate Sport: A Transformative Sport Service Research Approach
  Yiqi Yang, Erika Gray, Keita Kinoshita, Eric MacIntosh

  Journal Updates

  I wanted to provide everyone with an update on journal activities, as we have stayed active in the second half of 2023. Lots of great nuggets!

  • New Associate Editor
  • Editorial Board Changes
  • DOAJ
  • Web of Science
  • Journal Data
  • Future Plans

  New Associate Editor - Pleased to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Taylor (Temple University) has joined the journal as Associate Editor. She has been an EOB member for some years and has published multiple times at JIS. I have collaborated with Dr. Taylor many times in the past, so I fully expect a strong rapport with her throughout her term and us maintaining the aggressive timeline set last year.

  Editorial Board Changes - Several editorial board changes were made last year. This year, some smaller changes were made based on excellent guest reviews and submission trends. We have added Dominque Kropp (Xavier University) and Nataliya Bredikhina (University of Kansas) to the board. There is a need for an extra 1-3 board members. Of particular interest are individuals who have expertise in athletic identity, NIL, and academics. If you are interested in being a guest reviewer, please e-mail me (matt.huml@uc.edu) and provide some details on your research expertise. Happy to support opportunities for doctoral students as well, as we already use them as our review team and the editorial staff provides them further feedback on their review.

  DOAJ - Our journal was approved and listed on the Directory of Open-Access Journal repository. This included revisions and review of our submission guidelines and author permissions for published papers. This is an important component for our pledge towards open access and provides us with an important distinction on author control and journal accessibility.

  Web of Science - We are in the beginning stages of being listed on Web of Science. The long-term goal is to achieve an impact factor and make the journal more attractive to researchers and more valuable to authors in their tenure, promotion, or merit reviews. We will try to provide more updates later this year.

  Journal Data- If you are still reading at this point, let’s nerd out for a moment and talk about journal data. First, JIS is the 4^th most downloaded journal with the KU Press journal portfolio (out of 56). Next, we set several (good!) records this past year; the 2023 year had (a) the most submissions received, shortest timeframe to first decision, total completed reviews, shortest average timeframe of completed review, shortest days to accept, and shortest days to reject. Here is the breakdown of journal data:

  2023 Journal Data

  Submissions Received: 63 (highest ever, up 21% from last year)
  Acceptance Rate: 26% (JIS historical acceptance rate is 28%)
  Days to First Decision: 4 (lowest ever, down 50%)
  Completed Reviews: 125 (highest ever, up 56% from last year)
  Articles Published: 16 (second highest since KU Press, up 60% from last year)

  Days to Accept: 175 (shortest timeframe ever, down 30% from last year)
  Days to Reject: 38 (shortest timeframe ever, down 62% from last year)

  Average Days for Completed Review: 24.53 (shortest timeframe ever, down 36% from last year)

  I plan on tracking these data points every year to maintain journal health and identify areas that need to be improved. Thanks to our EOB, guest reviewers, authors, and KU Press staff for helping us make big strides in performance this past year.

  Future Plans -Here are a few things being planned for the future:

  • We’ve been told that website changes will be upcoming. I believe these website changes will alter how the JIS website looks when it’s rolled out, but this is still TBD.
  • The journal will consider a 2025 special issue. If you have a topic, please reach out to us.
    • It will be important for the journal to have special issue editors that will maintain the quick response rate set in 2023 and maintain consistent communication between submitting authors, reviewers, and the JIS
  • Changes to the manuscript guidelines. This summer we are going to review all manuscript guidelines and do a full revamp, if necessary. If you have feedback on what you would like to see or how we can do things differently, we want to hear from you!

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• New Issue - Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  2023-09-20

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  Our third and final issue this year for Journal of Intercollegiate Sport has been published. We had four excellent articles published in this issue. Each has been provided via link below. You’ll notice our new logos have been implemented for the first time in this issue. I’ll provide another update around the end of 2023 with journal statistics and various updates we have in the works. We'll try to have these posted on our new Twitter handle soon. In the meantime, if you could follow the handle (@JofInterSport), it would be much appreciated. Thanks again to the authors for our new articles, our editorial board, and guest reviewers.

   

  Chasing Stars: Racial Tasking of Recruiting Responsibilities among Power-5 Football Coaches

  Chris Corr, Trevor Bopp, Christopher Atwater, & Calvin Nite

   

   

  Tutor Perceptions of Division I College Athletes

  Molly Harry & Amanda Hoffman

   

   

  The Upward Mobility Potential in U.S. Intercollegiate Athletics: A Critical Examination of NCAA Division I College Baseball Players’ Hometown Demographics

  Kirsten Hextrum & Jeremy Kim

   

   

  Factors that Influence the Academic Success of College Athletes Participating in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

  Katie Moleski, B. David Ridpath, & Lijing Yang

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• Journal Updates (7.16.23)

  2023-07-16

  JIS Community,

   

  I’ll try to make these announcements on a semi-annual basis. We’ve undergone many changes at Journal of Intercollegiate Sport recently, so I wanted to provide an update. First, I want to thank many of you for the well wishes on my recent appointment at EIC. I’ve been grateful for the excellent mentorship provided by Dr. Welty Peachey since I joined as associate editor a year ago and the foundation provided by the previous JIS editors since its creation in 2008.

   

  Like many of you, the timing of the journal’s creation and my research agenda has meant that JIS has been especially important for me as a scholarly outlet. My goal is to position the journal to being at the forefront of choices for authors publishing and the readership interested in the college sport industry. Here are some of the changes we have implemented recently at JIS.

  Topics:

  • Review Board
  • Pilot with SMGT Doc Programs
  • Review Time Shortened from Three to One Month
  • Logo Changes
  • Jitterbug
  • Social Media
  • Smaller Changes
  • Future Plans

   

  • We have recently implemented several review board changes.
    • Twelve editorial board members were rotated off and six new members were added. The six new additions are Drs. Lisa Rubin, Sayvon Foster, Ajhanai Keaton, Liz Taylor, David Pifer, and Charles Macaulay. These changes are allowing a new set of folks to review scholarship at JIS and providing greater coverage of recent topics being submitted to the journal. A few more review board members will be added in 2024. Happy to add these new folks to the journal!
  • Created a pilot program with sport management/administration doctoral programs where advanced stage doctoral students are given an opportunity to be a reviewer.
    • Article reviews are often an under-prepared experience for doctoral students. From talking to doc students and new PhDs, there is a lot of mystery of what is expected from reviewing a journal article and the best approach.
    • Our approach has been reaching out to handful of doctoral granting institutions, collecting names of students who the program believes are more prepared for reviewing and have the time availability to complete them, collecting information on their expertise, and partnering them with experienced board members. Once the student has submitted their review, I provide them feedback on their submission, and I also share the other reviewer’s feedback. So far this has been a successful program that will continue in 2024.
  • Review time windows has been reduced from three months to one month.
    • This change was done for three reasons – (1) this is advantageous for authors, (2) it makes the journal as competitive as possible for authors deciding on a journal outlet, and (3) early reviewer data is showing the great majority of reviewers are completing their reviews in a 30-day window already. We have been slowly integrating this over the past 18 months to good results. I’ll be sharing our review data at the end of the year.
  • Logo changes
    • You’ll notice on the website and our new social media (via Twitter) account that we have created new logos for the journals. It was time to explore new branding for the journal that was functional as a brand on new journal articles (going forward) and social media friendly. There are three new logos: (a) for the website, (b) for social media/thumbnails, and (c) for published articles. These were designed with scoreboard aesthetics, particularly a nod to the old-school bulb scoreboards, creating a connection between our logo and a standard structure within college sport.
  • Jitterbug integration for each article
    • All article webpages now have an application called Jitterbug that is providing month-by-month counting stats for article downloads. This will provide faculty a statistical tool for supporting your research’s impact. Here is an example article webpage, just scroll down and you’ll see the download graphic: https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/14523
  • Social Media
    • Recently created a social media account on Twitter (@JofInterSport)
  • Smaller changes
    • Switched from the page numbers resetting from every issue to every volume.
    • Authors will be asked to submit their references from before submission to after acceptance. You still need to include references with your manuscript, this was a separate action.
  • Future Plans
    • We have a meeting with KU Press soon to start the process to becoming a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This work will take place later this summer and into the fall semester.
    • I’m exploring a manuscript guidelines refresh for authors. I’ll wait until we get feedback from DOAJ on what’s needed on our website before starting this process.
    • As mentioned earlier, I have been digging through some of the KU Press reports to collect year-by-year data on journal statistics, such as submissions, completed reviews, time to acceptance, average review time, etc. I have all the data from 2019 (transition to KU Press) to current, but I’ll wait until 2023 has closed before releasing everything.
    • I’ll look to add an Associate Editor in the fall semester.
    • I’m cautiously exploring a special issue topic for 2025. We’ll want assurances that potential guest editors have a timely topic, assurances of sticking to deadlines, and it fits within our purpose.

   

  I know it’s a long e-mail, so I appreciate those of you who stuck through this update to the end. Again, I really appreciate the leadership of the past editors and support provided by the editorial board members since the journal’s inception. We hope these changes will position the journal for further, great success moving forward.

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• New Issue - Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

  2023-06-26

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  We just published our second issue this year for Journal of Intercollegiate Sport. This is also our first issue since our editorial board changes. Dr. Welty Peachy has transitioned to the Editor Emeriti role and Dr. Huml has become our new Editor-in-Chief. We also are in midst of editorial board changes that will be finalized in the coming months. If you’re interested in being an EB member, especially if you are a faculty member at a teaching/hybrid institution, or a practitioner working within the alt-ac sport community, please e-mail matt.huml@uc.edu.

   

  Support to Classify Intercollegiate Athletics Participation as a High Impact Practice

  Molly Harry

   

  Analyzing the Mediating Effects of Social Capital and Sense of Community Between International Student’s College Sports Team Identification and Acculturation

  Kibaek Kim, Sarah Stokowski, Alison Fridley, & Jinwook Han

   

  Examining Associations of Coping Strategies with Stress, Alcohol, and Substance use among College Athletes: Implications for Improving Athlete Coping

  Brandon A. Knettel, Emily M. Cherenack, Conner Rougier-Chapman, & Courtney Bianchi-Rossi

   

  Athletic Conference Consideration for Adding New Sports Post-COVID

  Sloane Milstein, Julie Lanzillo, & Zack Damon

   

  #USportsSoMale: Gender (In)equity in Canadian Interuniversity Varsity Sport

  Daniel B. Robinson, Charlene Weaving, & Christa Spicer

   

   

  Matt Huml, PhD
  Assistant Professor
  Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intercollegiate Sport
  School of Human Services
  University of Cincinnati
  Cincinnati, OH 45221
  (513)556-1589

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