Movement Matters is affiliated with the field of kinesiology and more specifically, its subdiscipline of the socio-cultural studies of physical activity. Published articles are expected to cover such topical areas as coaching, dance, exercise, leisure, and sport. Within these areas there is broad scope to submit articles on, for example, the coach-athlete relationship, dance research creation, dance/exercise/sport participation and/or performance, learning and teaching dance/exercise/sport, physical skill learning, exercise sociology, issues on body-image and physical activity, socio-cultural research on injuries and medical care in physical activity, identity politics and physical activity.
The main editor will receive all submissions and then share them with the co-editor based on the topical areas of their expertise. Each one will then solicit one external reviewer for each submission. Each submission will also be reviewed by the editor/co-editor not assigned to lead the review process. This enables two reviews of each submission plus an editor to oversee the process. The reviewers will be solicited primarily among the BMC research group members and they will be given a clear rubric to assist them with the review process. Once a decision on a paper has been made, the editor will contact the author(s) and explain any ‘next steps.’.
Under the terms of the Creative Commons license, authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in Movement Matters as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.
This journal is archived with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Preservation Network and Scholars Portal Journals. These programs offer a decentralized and distributed preservation, perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.
Movement Matters is a diamond open access journal that provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the greater global exchange of knowledge.
Authors will never be charged to submit or publish a manuscript through Movement Matters, and all articles will be made available under a Creative Commons license, as indicated in the Copyright and Licensing section in the Submission guidelines.
About Movement Matters
Located within the field of kinesiology and more specifically, in its subdiscipline of the socio-cultural studies of physical activity, papers published in Movement Matters offer insights into the complex forces that shape and inform the moving body in contemporary society.
Movement Matters | ISSN 2564-1611
Editors: Pirkko Markula & Jim Denison
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