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 1st 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 10th): 43
  • 2024 Completed Reviews (As of June 10th): 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.