New Issue & Journal Updates – Journal of Intercollegiate Sport
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:
Jim Watkins & Ella Bennett
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
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):
- Future of Intercollegiate Sport
- Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)
- Models for Revenue Sharing
- Student-Athlete Development (including leadership education, holistic development, etc.)
- Experiences at NCAA Division II and III
- Experiences within leagues outside the NCAA (e.g., NAIA, NJCAA)
- 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
