Preliminary consideration of the submission (up to 2 weeks)
- appointment of an editor;
- checking the manuscript for consistency with the thematic scope of the journal;
- technical check (volume of the manuscript, volume of the abstract, assessment of the submission in terms of the stylistic and bibliographic requirements set forth in the Guidelines for authors);
- determining the relevance, novelty and originality of the paper;
- verifying the presence of a pedagogical experiment, its compliance with the research methods which can be repeated (representativeness of the sample, homogeneity of the sample in terms of age, motor fitness, level of sports fitness, training experience, etc.);
- if the manuscript is a review paper, the use of the PRISMA protocol, which covers systematic reviews and meta-analyses, is checked. Authors are recommended to complete the checklist and the flow diagram and include them in the submission.
- plagiarism check.
If the manuscript received a favorable assessment, it is sent for review, otherwise it is rejected.