International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences

•International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences (IJDSHS) is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary scientific journal. It aims to showcase a wide range of scientific publications in the field of sports sciences from all over the world and provide an open view of the results of research and an opportunity to deepen knowledge in the field of sports and health sciences for the disabled. The editor invites you to publish articles on all aspects of theory, research and practice in the fields of sports, special needs individuals and health sciences free of charge in this journal.

International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences (IJDSHS) is an international scientific peer-reviewed journal, published Biannually in electronic format.
• The articles in this journal are published OPEN ACCESS (OA) exclusively in English
• Detailed information on preparation of the manuscript is described in the Instruction for Authors
• Number of issues: 2 issues per year (June and December)
• Ethical Committee Approval in Research: "ETHICAL COMMITTEE APPROVAL” must have been obtained for all disciplines, this approval must be specified and documented in the article.
• "iThenticate" document is mandatory for article submission (Maximum15%).
• International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences is now index in SCOPUS as of January 2022

Editor-in-Chief : Assoc Prof. Nevzat DEMİRCİ
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijdshs

International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences (IJDSHS) is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary scientific journal. It aims to showcase a wide range of scientific publications in the field of sports sciences from all over the world and provide an open view of the results of research and an opportunity to deepen knowledge in the field of sports and health sciences for the disabled.

IJDSHS has open access and will publish research and articles in the following areas:

Public Health

Aging and Health

Disability and Health

Sports and Health

Quality in Healthcare

Sports Training in Disabilities

Physical Education and Sports in Disabilities

Individuals with Special Education Needs

Sports And Health Sciences

Physical Activity

Health And Fitness

Physical therapy and rehabilitation

Physical Therapy

Exercise Physiology

Sports for all

Writing Rules

Authors Guidelines

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.

All research articles in this journal will be subject to a rigorous peer review based on double blind equilibrium by at least two expert referees passing through the chief editor's scrutiny. The final publication decision is the responsibility of the chief editors. Find out what happens during peer review and read our publication ethics.

Authors have to submit the "Copyright Agreement" with a signature.

Authors have to upload the "Ethics Committee" document to the system.

"iThenticate and Turnitin" document is mandatory for authors article submission (Maximum15%).

Preparing Your Paper

International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences Journal Writing Rules and sample article template click here to access.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

The following ethical duties and responsibilities are written in the light of the guide and policies made by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). https://publicationethics.org/

Publication Ethics

Release Declaration

The journal is tightly bound to the principles of good publishing practices in the guidelines of the Editorial Committee (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines). Authors in the article application; that their work is in compliance with ethical, legal and scientific rules and that they have not been published before and are not in the evaluation stage to be published elsewhere during the application. Previously published tables, figures and articles must be clearly stated and permission must be obtained from those holding the broadcasting rights. The journal requires that appropriate ethics committee applications are made, that informed consents are received and that they are reported to the article. In medical studies involving human subjects, the Helsinki Declaration is firmly attached to its principles (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/pdf/17c.pdf). Authors are required to report that they are in compliance with institutional or national guidelines for the use and care of laboratory animals.

Responsibilities of Authors

The author is expected to be held accountable for the accuracy of the data and information about the submitted article. A proper and relevant citation should be considered by presenting the original original output of the authors' research, documenting the data and documenting the discussion. A writer should not repeat any research data from himself or herself when making an original manuscript for a primary publication in the magazine. The reported scope of work should be based on the appropriate references of other publications that affect it. Before submitting any article, the authors should check the extent of the journal and, in the case of any inquiries, contact the Editorial Office.

Authors should strictly comply with the authorship criteria. All listed authors have made important contributions to the research presented in the manuscript and must have approved all their claims. Anyone who should be considered as the author of an original research article should contribute to any of the following methods: designing the study, conducting the study or conducting the experiments, taking part in the analysis of the data. It is necessary to include everybody who makes a significant contribution to the completion of their research work. The financial and personal benefits governing the findings or research of the nature, as well as financial support details and resources, should be clearly stated

Responsibilities of Evaluators

Editors are obliged to comply with the policies of "Blind Review and Review Process" stated in the journal's publication policies. Therefore, the editors ensure that each manuscript is reviewed in an unbiased, fair and timely manner.

Privacy Policy: Observers should not share or disclose any information about an assigned manuscript with strangers without permission from the Editor.

Competency Principle: You must complete the assessment with a qualified person. The appointed observer with unauthorized competence must feel responsible and may refuse to review because the evaluator is assumed to be an expert on the relevant field.

Constructive Evaluation: Reviewer's comments should assess the positive aspects of the studies, constructively describe their negative aspects and indicate the necessary equipment. An evaluator (Observer) should clearly and adequately explain and support the judgment of the editors and the authors for their interpretation. The reviewer must ensure that he or she is accompanied by a relevant reference to an observation or argument previously reported, and should immediately notify the editor if he / she is aware of the repetitive publication. The interpreter should not use any kind of abusive language when commenting on a article. The evaluation of each article should be made without prejudice and personal attention by the person who has been appointed.

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest: The observer should minimize conflict of interest as much as possible. In such a case, the eye must inform the editor of the conflict of interest. Observers must be sufficiently active to present their review comments in a timely manner, and to respond to questions asked by the editor, if any.

Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

The editor and field editors of International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences should hold the following ethical responsibilities that are based on the guides "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published as open Access by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Editors are obliged to publish corrections or corrections as soon as possible, preserving the integrity of the published article, if necessary. The editor must comply with the policy guidelines provided by the publisher and fulfill its responsibilities in its entirety. Review process: Editors are responsible for monitoring and providing justice, timing, rigor and courtesy of the arbitration review process. Ensure that the content or author information contained in the article is legible. To evaluate all the manuscripts so that they are not covered by the magazine. Promoting corrections, dealing with withdrawal, additional data, etc. To protect the inner integrity of the magazines with themes. Try to publish the best articles and research that attract readers.

Decision Making: It has the right to be in consultation with decision-making, eye-catching or editorial board members.

Impartiality: The editorial and editorial board should evaluate manuscripts in terms of their intellectual content, without putting any prejudice against race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship, or political philosophies of authors.

Confidentiality: The Editor or any Editor board staff should not pass any information about a submitted manuscript, the related author, the reviewers, other editorial advisers, or the outside of the publisher.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

The fact that all manuscripts are reviewed through "Blind Review" has a direct influence on the publication quality. This process ensures confidentiality by objective and independent review. The review process at IJDSHS is carried out on the principle of double blind review. Reviewers do not contact the authors directly, and the reviews and comments are conveyed through the journal management system. In this process, the reviewer views on the evaluation forms and full texts are assigned to the author(s) by the editor. Therefore, the reviewers doing review work for IJDSHS are supposed to bear the following ethical responsibilities:

Reviewers must

• Agree to review only in their subject of expertise.

• Review in an unbiased and confidential manner.

• Inform the editor of the journal if they think that they encounter conflict of interests and decline to review the manuscript during the review process.

• Dispose the manuscripts they have reviewed in accordance with the principle of confidentiality after the review process. Reviewers can use the final versions of the manuscripts they have reviewed only after publication.

• Review the manuscript objectively and only in terms of its content and ensure that nationality, gender, religious and political beliefs, and economic apprehension do not influence the review.

• Review the manuscript in a constructive and kind tone, avoid making personal comments including hostility, slander and insult.

• Review the manuscript they have agreed to review on time and in accordance with the ethical rules stated above.

Open Access Copyright Policy

Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” Open Access (OA) provides unlimited access and reuseability of research publications online for free. Therefore, the open access therefore creates the network for reaching the widest possible audience, sharing the entire papers and building upon them.
International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences (IJDSHS) has signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative and shows its “openness” clearly in a standardized form.
IJDSHS also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of ''Open Access,'' which is defined as: “Its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

Articles published in IJDSHS will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License
Ijeg is licenced by Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You can find information about CC-BY-SA please click https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

Assignment of Publishing Rights
I hereby assign to International Journal of Disabilities Sports & Health Sciences the copyright in the above specified manuscript and any accompanying tables, illustrations, data and any other supplementary information intended for publication.
All the author(s) agree the above paper for publication in the International Journal of Disabilities Sports & Health Sciences (published by https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijdshs ). The above-mentioned paper is the author(s)’ original work and has not been published before, and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
For the avoidance of doubt, this assignment includes the rights to supply the article in electronic and online forms and systems. I confirm that I have read and accept the full terms of the Journal’s article publishing agreement attached to this form including my author warranties, and have reviewed the Journal’s policies on Author Rights, Publishing Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Disclosure.

Archieving Policy (LOCKSS)

The LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit.
International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences (IJDSHS) is using the LOCKKS archiving system.
The LOCKSS Program, based on the program used at Stanford University Libraries, provides libraries and publishers with award-winning, low-cost, open source digital preservation tools to preserve and provide access to persistent and authoritative digital content.
The LOCKSS Program (https://www.lockss.org/) is an open-source, library-led digital preservation system built on the principle that “lots of copies keep stuff safe.” The LOCKSS Program develops and supports libraries using an open source peer-to-peer digital preservation software.
The LOCKSS system allows librarians to access to the e-content to which they subscribe, restoring the print purchase model with which librarians are familiar.
The Global LOCKSS Network preserves today's e-journals and e-books for tomorrow's readers. The Global LOCKSS Network is a proven preservation approach that uniquely empowers both libraries and publishers. It enhances a library's value by restoring library collections via a locally installed "LOCKSS box", which is essentially a digital bookshelf. The Global LOCKSS Network enhances a publisher's value by preserving the original published artifact, including branding, historical context, and underlying files. It protects the publisher's interest by driving all reader traffic to their web site. The Global LOCKSS Network is administered and managed by the Stanford University Libraries LOCKSS Program. See the LOCKSS Program website for additional information, http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home.
A detailed explanation of what sets the LOCKSS software apart and how preservation works in the LOCKSS network (e.g. technical infrastructure, security) can be found in the following link: https://www.lockss.org/about/how-it-works/.

Plagiarism Policy

All manuscripts sent to our magazines are now scanned by iThenticate ® (Professional Plagiarism Prevention) programa plagiarism detection software.If an article contains plagiarism or self-plagiarism in more than 15% of the manuscript, it will be returned to the author for appropriate citation and correction.

To avoid plagiarism, the authors confirm that:

1. We understand that it is against the ethics of plagiarism;

2. No material with unauthorized copyright is used in writing;

3. The article is exempt from plagiarism and has not been published before;

4. We will be responsible for the opinions expressed in the I / O and we will be responsible for all disputes arising from our use of any copyrighted material without proper permission.

If the author suspects plagiarism at any stage even after publications, within a week the author will need to get clear about the manuscript. The article will be automatically rejected and removed from the system without a reasonable and timely explanation. Manuscripts sent by the same author will not be accepted.

Publisher's Responsibility

The International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences (IJDSHS) publishes new and up-to-date scientific information by the publisher following a rigorous peer review process as soon as possible. As a publisher, the following policies are taken into account: Supporting the fair and timely peer review process with valuable input and responsible viewers. Make constructive recommendations to improve the overall process and ensure better production support and dissemination of information published in the magazines. For magazines and articles, web development, web management, and social media management ensure the trouble-free operation of staff. The International Journal of Disabilities Sports & Health Sciences (IJDSHS) is seeking to design and initiate innovative ways with the vision of "Open Access", a scientifically valuable research information.

Guidelines for Retracting Stamps

The International Journal of Disabilities Sports & Health Sciences (IJDSHS) is rigorous in providing the integrity of the scientific record of the content of all users. The editor is irrespective of whether a article is to be published within a certain period of time. In making this decision, the Editor is guided by the policies of the editorial board and is limited to the legal requirements in force for copyright infringement and plagiarism. Published articles will remain as current, accurate and unaltered as possible. However, there may be occasional unavoidable circumstances that require article withdrawal or publication from a particular journal after publication.

Retrieval of the Makalen: This is only used for "Article in Publication" which represents the first versions of the accepted articles. The article may be withdrawn at the discretion of the editor, if it constitutes a violation of professional ethics codes, such as any article, multiple declarations, counterfeit documents, plagiarism or falsified use of data or similar events during the printing phase. Retraction of the Makalel: Violation of professional codes of ethics, such as multiple submissions, false authoring claims, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data and similar claims, will result in a retraction of the article. Sometimes, a withdrawal may be considered to correct the mistakes in sending or broadcasting.

Price Policy

IJDSHS is a double peer-reviewed (blind) OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL that publishes professional level research articles and subject reviews exclusively in English. International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences (IJDSHS) does not charge any fee for the submission, evaluation and publication of the articles. Authors do not pay article processing fees or submission fees for the studies they submit to the journal.