About the journal

 The Journal of "Applied Studies in Sport and Health Sciences" is affiliated to Islamic Azad University, Qom branch. The first issue of this journal was published in the spring of 2022.

Open Access statement: The Journal of Applied Studies in Sport and Health Sciences is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. All content of the Journal is published with open access under the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Noncommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes

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Reference Style: APA

The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism: All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. Manuscripts submitted to the journal of Applied Studies in Sport and Health Sciences will be screened for plagiarism using similarity check and plagiarism detection tools. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to check the similarity before submitting their manuscript to the journal. Editors check the plagiarism detection of manuscripts in the journal  the Grammerly detection software (www.grammerly.com), and iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) for English abstracts and use Iranian plagiarism detection software such as IranDOC (https://tik.irandoc.ac.ir) and Samimonoor (www.samimnoor.ir) for the Persian text.

The journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Whenever it is determined that the manuscript has not complied with the plagiarism rules, it will be REJECTED (before acceptance for publication), and if it was published, it will be RETRACTED for plagiarism issues

COPE: The journal of Applied Studies in Sport and Health Sciences follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential cases of misconduct.

Copyright: Authors  retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), 

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

 Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access

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