EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Editors must evaluate manuscripts according to:

• Scholarly merit
• Relevance
• Originality
• Methodological quality
• Ethical compliance
• Contribution to coaching and sports sciences

Editorial decisions must not be influenced by nationality, institutional affiliation, ethnicity, religion, gender, personal relationships, financial considerations, or other irrelevant characteristics.

Editors must:

• Preserve confidentiality
• Declare conflicts of interest
• Assign qualified reviewers
• Evaluate reviewer reports critically
• Investigate credible ethical concerns
• Avoid coercive citation
• Protect editorial independence
• Take appropriate post-publication action

REVIEWER RESPONSIBILITIES

CONFIDENTIALITY

Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential.

OBJECTIVITY

Reviews must focus on scholarly content rather than authors personally.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Reviewers must decline assignments where impartiality may be compromised.

CONSTRUCTIVE REVIEW

Comments should be clear, specific, evidence-based, and useful.

CITATION ETHICS

Reviewers must not demand unnecessary citations to their own work.

MISUSE OF INFORMATION

Unpublished information obtained through peer review must not be used for personal or professional advantage.

PROMPTNESS

Reviewers unable to complete a review should promptly inform the editor.

GENERATIVE AI

Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscript content into third-party AI systems where confidentiality may be compromised.