Physical Therapy in Sport

Physical Therapy in Sport is the official journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports and Exercise Medicine, issued by Elsevier and recognised by the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy and The Sports Massage Association.《Physical Therapy in Sport》是特许运动与运动医学物理治疗师协会的机关刊，由 Elsevier 出版，并获国际运动物理治疗联合会与运动按摩协会认可。

It began in 2000 and carries work on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of injury, together with the wider ground of sports medicine and rehabilitation, in six volumes a year.该刊创刊于 2000 年，登载损伤的诊断、治疗与预防方面的研究，也收运动医学与运动康复的更广议题，每年出六卷。

The 2025 impact factor is 2.3 and CiteScore 4.4, and the Journal Citation Reports put it 46th of 175 titles in rehabilitation.2025 年的影响因子为 2.3，CiteScore 为 4.4，期刊引证报告把它在康复类 175 种刊中排在第 46 位。

Scope

• Its masthead names one owning association and three partner bodies, with ACPSM holding the title while IFSPT and The Sports Massage Association endorse it and SONAFE in Brazil is listed as an affiliated society.刊头列出一个主办学会与三家伙伴机构，ACPSM 持有这份刊，IFSPT 与运动按摩协会为其背书，巴西的 SONAFE 则作为建立联系的学会列出。

• The stated purpose is to give the professions that work in sports and exercise medicine, and in rehabilitation, a forum for research and for material drawn straight from clinical practice.宗旨页写明的用途，是给运动与运动医学以及康复领域的从业者一个论坛，既放研究，也放直接从临床实践里得来的材料。

• Injury sits at the centre. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention are named in that order, which runs from the clinic appointment back to the training week that caused the problem.损伤处在中心。诊断、治疗与预防按这个次序写出，从门诊那一次就诊一直追溯回出问题的那个训练周。

• Around that core the remit opens onto sports medicine and sports rehabilitation at large, so load management, exercise prescription and return-to-play papers share a volume with clinical trials.围绕这个核心，范围也向运动医学与运动康复的一般议题敞开，负荷管理、运动处方与重返赛场的稿子能和临床试验排在同一卷。

• Usefulness is the test the aims page sets. A paper should be readable by a clinician in post and change something in the next clinic, instead of adding a line to a literature list.宗旨页设的标准是有用。一篇稿子要让在岗的临床人员读得懂，并且能改动下一次门诊里的做法，而不是在文献清单上多加一行。

• Continuing professional development falls inside that brief, which is why review material and teaching pieces count as core content and not as filler between trials.继续职业发展也归在这份差事里，综述材料与偏教学的稿件因此算核心内容，不当作试验论文之间的填充。

• Original research is capped at roughly 4,000 words, a ceiling that keeps an article inside one sitting and leaves the detail to be argued in the methods rather than rehearsed at length.原创研究一般不超过 4000 词，这个上限让一篇文章能一次读完，细节留给方法一节交代，不必铺陈。

• Reviews carry the same 4,000-word ceiling whether the authors are summarising a treatment or pooling trials into a systematic review.综述的上限同样是 4000 词，作者无论是梳理某种疗法，还是把试验合并成系统综述，都按这把尺子。

• Case studies have a standing slot. In a field where one unusual presentation can teach more than a small trial, a single well-documented patient is publishable on its own.病例研究有常设的位置。在本行里，一个不常见的病例所能教的东西有时多过一项小样本试验，记录扎实的单个病人因此足以成篇。

• Masterclasses form the didactic strand. Most are commissioned by the editors, and a proposal that arrives uninvited has to be discussed with the editorial office before any writing begins.「masterclass」是偏示范与说理的一类。多数由编辑约稿，未经邀请的选题要先与编辑部谈过，谈妥再动笔。

• An agreed masterclass goes in under the Feature Article category, the route the guide gives to work the editors have already asked about.谈定的「masterclass」按 Feature Article 一类投递，指南给编辑已经过问的稿子留的就是这条路。

• Book reviews run as a short standing section, and they are where the journal's teaching voice comes through most plainly.书评是常设的短栏，这份刊的教学口吻在这一栏里露得最清楚。

• Conference reports appear occasionally and on no fixed schedule, so the section is read as a record of what a meeting argued rather than as a standing beat.会议报告不定期出现，没有固定档期，读者把它当作一次会议争论过什么的记录，不当作常设版面。

• The readership is wider than one profession. Sports physicians, physiotherapists and rehabilitation scientists appear in the same pages, and the prose is kept plain enough for all of them.读者不止一个行当。运动医学医师、物理治疗师与康复研究者出现在同一批页面上，行文也刻意写得让这几类人都读得下去。

History

• The opening issue is dated February 2000 and is volume 1, number 1. Churchill Livingstone of Edinburgh and New York was the imprint, and the DOIs from that period begin with 10.1054.创刊号标的是 2000 年 2 月，为第 1 卷第 1 期。出版方记为爱丁堡与纽约的 Churchill Livingstone，那一时期的 DOI 以 10.1054 开头。

• Elsevier publishes it today, while the library record still carries the founding imprint, so a citation from 2000 and one from 2026 look as though they come from different houses.如今由 Elsevier 出版，图书馆记录里仍留着创刊时的出版方，2000 年与 2026 年的引文因此看上去像出自两家。

• Volume numbering follows a pattern of its own. Six volumes appear each year, each volume holds a single issue, no issue number is printed, and articles carry numbers instead of page ranges.卷号的排法自成一套。每年出六卷，每卷一期刊，不印期号，文章给编号而不给起止页。

• Those six volumes land in January, March, May, July, September and November. That makes 2024 volumes 65 to 70, 2025 volumes 71 to 76 and 2026 volumes 77 to 82.六卷分别落在 1 月与 3 月，5 月与 7 月，9 月与 11 月。2024 年因此是第 65 至 70 卷，2025 年是第 71 至 76 卷，2026 年是第 77 至 82 卷。

• A single volume holds between 13 and 25 papers, a thin bundle by monthly standards, and the whole contents list fits on one screen.一卷收 13 至 25 篇，按月刊的尺度算薄，整份目录一屏能看完。

• Output has travelled a long way since 2019, when Crossref counted 157 items. The next two years rose to 177 and then 200, and 2022 brought 138.从 2019 年算起，发稿量走了很远，那一年 Crossref 记 157 条。随后两年升到 177 条与 200 条，2022 年回落到 138 条。

• The recent run reads 115 in 2023, 99 in 2024, 117 in 2025 and 112 across the first ten months of 2026, so the slide of the early decade has flattened.近几年的数字是 2023 年 115 条，2024 年 99 条，2025 年 117 条，2026 年前十个月 112 条，二十年代前期的下滑已经平下来。

• Five impact factors read 2.365, 2.92, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.3 for the years 2021 to 2025, a band narrow enough that the order of the years matters less than the level.2021 至 2025 年的五个影响因子依次为 2.365，2.92，2.2，2.4 与 2.3，区间窄，年度之间的排序不如水平本身要紧。

• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports rank it 46th of 175 in rehabilitation at the 74th percentile, and 59th of 136 in sport sciences, with a JCI of 0.99.2025 年的期刊引证报告把它排在康复类 175 种里的第 46 位，百分位 74，运动科学类 136 种里的第 59 位，JCI 为 0.99。

• That file also counts 4,286 citations, a cited half-life of 6.4 years and an annual output of 104 articles, the profile of a mid-sized clinical title with a steady tail.同一份文件还数到 4,286 次被引，被引半衰期 6.4 年，年发文 104 篇，这是一本中等体量、引文尾巴平稳的临床刊的样子。

• MEDLINE coverage starts at volume 9, number 1, dated February 2008, eight years after the launch issue and the point from which the run can be searched in one place.MEDLINE 的收录从第 9 卷第 1 期起算，那一期是 2008 年 2 月，距创刊号八年，此后整段过刊能在同一处检索。

• Two ISSNs are in use. The print number is 1466-853X and the online number 1873-1600, and the second is the one to quote for a paper read on ScienceDirect.两个 ISSN 并行。印刷版是 1466-853X，在线版是 1873-1600，在 ScienceDirect 上读到的文章按后者著录。

• Open access has been offered on a hybrid basis for years. Authors may pay to free a paper, the gold share reached 39.26 percent in the 2025 file, and the subscription route costs an author nothing.混合式的开放获取已经做了多年。作者可以付费把一篇论文开放，2025 年文件里的金色占比达到 39.26%，走订阅路径的作者不付费。

Editors

• Lee Herrington of the University of Salford holds the editor's chair, and the masthead lists him alone in that role rather than as half of a pair.主编一职由 University of Salford 的 Lee Herrington 担任，刊头只列他一人，没有设联席主编。

• Four associate editors divide the spread, David Bazett-Jones at High Point University, Ronaldo Briani at São Paulo State University, Lisa Custer at Towson University and Bradley Neal at the University of Essex.四位副编辑分开把关，他们是 High Point University 的 David Bazett-Jones，São Paulo State University 的 Ronaldo Briani，Towson University 的 Lisa Custer，以及 University of Essex 的 Bradley Neal。

• Two editorial advisors sit above the routine queue, Paula Beckenkamp in Sydney and Sergio Montero Navarro in Moncada, Spain.两位编辑顾问在常规队列之上，一位是悉尼的 Paula Beckenkamp，一位是西班牙 Moncada 的 Sergio Montero Navarro。

• Bart Dingenen in Diepenbeek handles social media, a post that speaks to how readers now come across a paper.社交媒体的活儿由 Diepenbeek 的 Bart Dingenen 负责，这个岗位说明读者如今是怎么撞见一篇论文的。

• Six people form the editorial committee, Jill Cook in Burwood, Stuart Elwell in West Bromwich, Keith George in Liverpool, Nicola Phillips in Cardiff, Timothy Sell in Pittsburgh and Lynn Snyder-Mackler in Newark.编辑委员会由六人组成，分别是 Burwood 的 Jill Cook，West Bromwich 的 Stuart Elwell，Liverpool 的 Keith George，Cardiff 的 Nicola Phillips，Pittsburgh 的 Timothy Sell 与 Newark 的 Lynn Snyder-Mackler。

• Thirteen members make up the international advisory board, drawn from Perth, Winnipeg, Coleraine, Amsterdam, Springfield, Manchester, Tel Aviv, Morgantown, two in Auckland, Johannesburg, Singapore and Doha.国际顾问委员会有 13 人，来自 Perth，Winnipeg，Coleraine，Amsterdam，Springfield，Manchester，Tel Aviv，Morgantown，Auckland 两地，以及 Johannesburg，Singapore 与 Doha。

• The board page counts 35 people from 14 countries and territories, eight of them in the United Kingdom, eight in the United States and six in Australia.编委会页面数出 35 人，来自 14 个国家与地区，其中英国 8 人，美国 8 人，澳大利亚 6 人。

• Review is double anonymized. Author and reviewer do not see each other's names, and after an editorial screen most manuscripts go to at least two reviewers who work independently.评审是双向匿名的。作者与审稿人互相看不到姓名，编辑初筛之后，多数稿子会交到至少两位审稿人手上独立评估。

• An editor with a stake in a manuscript steps aside, and the appeal rule is tight, since a submission gets one appeal and no second one.与稿件有利益牵连的编辑会回避，申诉的口子也收得紧，每篇投稿只受理一次申诉。

• Publishing is hybrid. Choosing open access costs 3,370 US dollars before tax, and an author who stays on the subscription route pays nothing to publish.出版走混合模式。选择开放获取的作者要付 3,370 美元，税额另计，留在订阅路径上的作者不缴纳发表费用。

• Speed is quoted as medians. Three days to a first decision, 81 days to a decision after review, 101 days to acceptance, and two days from acceptance to going online.速度按中位数报。首次决定 3 天，评审后决定 81 天，录用 101 天，录用后 2 天在线。