Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation

Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation is the bimonthly, open-access journal of the Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation, launched in 2005 and published under its present title since 2013. It spans basic, clinical and behavioural research on exercise as a rehabilitation modality, from muscle and metabolic physiology to neuropsychiatric care. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, placing it in the second quartile of the Rehabilitation category.《运动康复杂志》是一份以运动康复为主题的国际期刊，创刊于 2005 年，2013 年起使用现名，读者遍及运动科学、康复医学与体育教育等领域。刊物覆盖运动作为康复手段的基础研究、临床研究与行为研究，选题从肌肉与代谢生理延伸到神经精神疾病照护。编辑方针强调以科学证据检验运动干预的效果，并为临床与管理实践提供可复用的方案。

Scope

• Exercise rehabilitation is treated as a field in its own right, with treatment targets and methods that differ from those of conventional rehabilitation medicine in several disease groups.刊物把运动康复视为独立领域，认为其在若干疾病群体中的干预目标与方法同传统康复医学存在差别。
• A central premise is that supervised exercise can address conditions of modern society, including metabolic disorders, at low cost and with few adverse effects compared with drug-based care.其核心判断是，在专业监督下进行的运动能够应对现代社会的多种病症，其中代谢类疾病的收益尤其明显，且相较药物治疗费用更低、不良反应更少。
• Neurological and psychiatric conditions form a second cluster, covering depression, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia, where exercise is studied as an adjunct or independent intervention.神经与精神类疾病构成第二个重点，涉及抑郁与孤独症，也涉及注意力缺陷多动障碍和精神分裂症，运动在其中被当作辅助手段或独立干预加以研究。
• The journal also argues that exercise programmes can substitute for parts of conventional care in economically disadvantaged regions, a claim it invites authors to test empirically rather than assert.刊物还提出，在经济欠发达地区，运动方案可以替代部分常规医疗，并鼓励作者以实证数据检验这一判断，避免停留在主张层面。
• Papers should identify the effects of exercise rehabilitation on specific diseases and clarify the mechanisms through which those effects are produced, rather than report outcomes alone.论文需要说明运动康复对具体疾病的作用，并阐明这些作用经由何种机制产生，仅报告结局指标不足以满足要求。
• The basic research section welcomes cellular, molecular and physiological work on muscle plasticity, atrophy, apoptosis, inflammation and energy metabolism under exercise loading.基础研究栏目欢迎从细胞、分子与生理层面研究运动负荷下的肌肉可塑性，也接收围绕肌萎缩与细胞凋亡的实验工作，并关注炎症反应和能量代谢。
• Clinical research covers trials, cohort studies and case series that test exercise prescriptions in patients with musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, neurological or metabolic diagnoses.临床研究栏目刊登临床试验、队列研究与病例系列，检验运动处方在骨骼肌肉与心血管疾病患者中的效果，也覆盖神经与代谢疾病人群。
• Exercise rehabilitation pedagogy examines how practitioners are trained, how programmes are designed for different ages and abilities, and how instruction is delivered in schools and clinics.运动康复教学法方向考察从业者的培养方式，也关注面向不同年龄与能力人群的课程设计，以及学校与诊所中的教学实施。
• The education section addresses curricula, certification and continuing training for exercise specialists, physiotherapists and allied health staff who deliver rehabilitation programmes.教育栏目讨论课程体系、资格认证与继续培训，对象包括运动指导师与物理治疗师，也包括相关健康专业人员。
• Psychological research considers motivation, adherence, self-efficacy, body image and mental health outcomes that shape whether an exercise regimen is sustained over months or years.心理学方向研究动机与依从性，也考察自我效能和身体意象，并关注决定运动计划能否长期坚持的心理健康结局。
• Welfare studies look at access, equity, insurance coverage and community provision, asking who receives exercise rehabilitation and which groups are left outside formal programmes.福利方向关注可及性与公平性，也讨论保险覆盖和社区供给，追问哪些人能够获得运动康复，哪些群体被排除在正式项目之外。
• Research articles, review articles and commissioned contributions are accepted, and the editorial board also invites papers that map emerging areas or settle contested measurement questions.刊物接收研究论文与综述，也刊登编委会约稿，并主动邀请能够梳理新兴方向或厘清测量争议的文章。
• Submission implies that the work is original, ethically conducted and not under consideration elsewhere, and accepted papers transfer copyright to the society.投稿即表示研究为原创、符合伦理规范且未在他处审理，录用后版权归学会所有。
• The intended readership includes exercise scientists, rehabilitation physicians, physiotherapists, sports coaches and policy makers who need evidence on which programmes work and for whom.目标读者包括运动科学家与康复医师，也包括物理治疗师和体育教练，以及关注项目评估的政策制定者。

History

• The Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation founded the journal in 2005 as the Journal of the Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation, printed under pISSN 1976-6319.韩国运动康复学会于 2005 年创办该刊，当时刊名为《韩国运动康复学会志》，使用印刷版 ISSN 1976-6319。
• Volumes 1 to 8 appeared under that title between 2005 and 2013, building a record of Korean work on exercise prescription before the journal widened its remit.2005 年至 2013 年间出版的第 1 至第 8 卷沿用旧名，积累了韩国运动处方研究的文献，也为随后扩展选题范围奠定基础。
• From Volume 9, Number 2, in 2013 the title changed to Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation, with pISSN 2288-176X and eISSN 2288-1778 assigned to the new masthead.2013 年出版的第 9 卷第 2 期起，刊名改为《运动康复杂志》，新版封面同时启用印刷版 ISSN 2288-176X 与电子版 ISSN 2288-1778。
• PubMed and PubMed Central began indexing the journal with that same 2013 issue, so the international record of the title starts exactly where the renaming took effect.PubMed 与 PubMed Central 正是从 2013 年这一期开始收录，该刊的国际文献记录与更名时点完全重合。
• Editors revised the instructions for authors on 15 April 2013 to accompany the relaunch, setting reporting and ethics requirements that remain the basis of current practice.配合此次改版，编辑部于 2013 年 4 月 15 日修订投稿须知，确立的报告规范与伦理要求沿用至今。
• The journal entered the Emerging Sources Citation Index and received its first Journal Impact Factor of 1.2 in 2023, followed by 1.6 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025.该刊随后进入 Emerging Sources Citation Index，2023 年获得首个期刊影响因子 1.2，2024 年升至 1.6，2025 年为 1.9。
• In the 2025 release it sits in the second quartile of Rehabilitation at rank 76 of 175, with a five-year impact factor of 2.3 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.74.在 2025 年发布的指标中，该刊位于康复类第二四分位，排名 76/175，五年影响因子为 2.3，期刊引文指标为 0.74。
• Citation volume has grown with visibility, reaching roughly 1,620 citations and about 32 articles a year, with a cited half-life of 7.1 years.随着能见度提高，总被引次数约为 1620 次，年发文量约 32 篇，被引半衰期为 7.1 年。
• All content is open access under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence, and authors retain reuse rights for teaching and non-commercial distribution.全部内容以知识共享署名非商业性使用许可开放获取，作者可为教学与非商业传播保留再利用权利。
• Digital object identifiers carry the prefix 10.12965, and registration through Crossref keeps every article persistently linked from the society platform.数字对象标识符使用 10.12965 前缀，经 Crossref 注册后，每篇文章都获得持久链接。
• Coverage widened beyond PubMed to Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals, and later to the Korea Citation Index and Google Scholar, reflecting the title's dual domestic and international audience.收录范围从 PubMed 扩展到 Scopus 与 DOAJ，随后进入韩国引文索引和 Google Scholar，反映出该刊兼顾国内与国际读者。
• The editorial board was renewed in August 2022, when the current roster of editors and the present editor-in-chief took office, replacing the panel that had served since January 2013.编委会于 2022 年 8 月完成换届，现任主编与编委团队自那时起任职，接替自 2013 年 1 月起工作的上一届班子。
• The society publishes six issues a year and reserves the option of supplementary issues for conference proceedings or thematic collections.学会每年出版 6 期，并为会议论文或专题合集保留增刊空间。
• Editorial work is handled from the Korea University Sejong campus, while the society office in Incheon remains the publisher of record and holds copyright.编辑工作在高丽大学世宗校区完成，学会仁川办公室作为出版方持有版权。

Editors

• Mal-Soon Shin, a professor in the Division of Global Sport Studies at Korea University's Sejong campus, has served as editor-in-chief since the August 2022 renewal.主编（Mal-Soon Shin）是高丽大学世宗校区全球体育学研究部的教授，自 2022 年 8 月换届起担任现职。
• Her research on exercise physiology, muscle atrophy and apoptosis shapes the journal's preference for mechanistic studies that connect training load to cellular adaptation.她的研究聚焦运动生理学、肌萎缩与细胞凋亡，这一背景使刊物更看重把训练负荷与细胞适应联系起来的机制研究。
• Yong-Seok Jee of Hanseo University serves as associate editor, with responsibilities spanning physical activity, exercise immunity and robotic rehabilitation, and he handles manuscripts in those areas.副主编（Yong-Seok Jee）来自韩瑞大学，负责身体活动、运动免疫与机器人康复方向，并处理相关稿件。
• Seventeen editors complete the board, six of them based in the United States and three in China, including Hong Kong.编委会另有 17 位编委，其中 6 位在美国，3 位在中国（含香港）。
• The remaining seats are held by one scholar each in Cameroon, Israel, Singapore, Nigeria, Germany, Iran, Japan and Italy, giving the board a deliberately wide geographic spread.其余席位分别由喀麦隆与以色列的学者担任，也有来自新加坡和尼日利亚的成员，欧洲方面包括德国与意大利，亚洲方面还有伊朗和日本。
• Subject coverage mirrors the sections, with editors working on spinal cord injury and stem cells, cervical pain and manual therapy, neural plasticity, circadian biology and vascular physiology.编委的学科分布与栏目对应，既有脊髓损伤与干细胞研究，也有颈椎疼痛与手法治疗，还涉及神经可塑性和昼夜节律生物学。
• Haemi Jee of Namseoul University serves as ethics editor and reviews allegations of misconduct, duplicate publication and undisclosed conflicts before any correction is issued.伦理编辑（Haemi Jee）来自南首尔大学，负责审查学术不端、重复发表与未披露利益冲突的指控，并在作出更正前给出意见。
• Hwan Tae Ahn of Infolumi handles copy-editing and production, standardising terminology and reference formatting across accepted manuscripts.稿件编辑（Hwan Tae Ahn）供职于 Infolumi，负责文字编辑与出版制作，统一录用稿件的术语与参考文献格式。
• Every submission that passes editorial screening is sent to three investigators chosen by the editor, and publication follows a decision by the editorial board.通过初审的稿件会送给三位相关领域研究者评审，人选由编辑确定，最终刊发取决于编委会的决定。
• Reviewers are asked to judge originality, methodological soundness, ethical compliance and clinical or theoretical relevance, and to state a recommendation among acceptance, revision and rejection.评审人需要判断原创性，也评估方法可靠性与伦理合规性，并衡量临床或理论价值，最后在录用、修回与拒稿之间给出建议。
• The board also commissions invited articles, a category intended for authoritative overviews and for positions that clarify contested issues in exercise rehabilitation.编委会还组织约稿，这一类别用于发表权威综述，也用于阐明运动康复领域尚有争议的问题。
• Authors submit through the society's electronic system rather than by email, and correspondence with the editorial office is handled at the Sejong address listed on the journal site.作者通过学会的电子投稿系统提交稿件，不使用电子邮件投稿，与编辑部的联系按刊网公布的世宗办公地址进行。
• Board membership is unpaid and term-based, and the published roster is dated so that readers can identify which editors handled a given volume.编委任职无薪酬且按届管理，刊网会标注名单日期，读者据此可以判断某一卷次由哪些编辑负责。