About This Journal
The Journal of Modern Sport was founded in 2002 and it’s a scientific journal specialized in publishing scientific researches about sports science, for scientific publishing and scientific promotions purposes. It is published in four issues per year, in the following months: March, June, September, December.
The journal is published by the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Women – Baghdad University, and it is certified by the international center for the international standard classification number.
It has its deposit number in the national library and archives in Baghdad: 1309 for 2009.
The journal can also publish a special issue to publish conference researches.
The first proofreading shall be commenced by the editorial committee and electronic quotation shall be performed. The researcher will be informed about any issues during the first week of receiving the research.
The research shall be arbitrated scientifically and secretly by two certified scientific arbitrators. The arbitration process shall take 3 weeks according to the directions of the journal.
Based on the recommendations of the arbitrators, the research shall be approved as it is, approved after revisions, or disapproved. The researcher will be informed of the decision of the editorial committee.
After finishing the arbitration process, publishing fees are requested and are worth 225,000 IQD. Note that the journal is a non-profit journal, and these fees are just to cover the arbitration process, publishing, and translation. Publishing for researchers outside Iraq is free.
Each arbitration procedure shall be conducted electronically, via the Editorial Manager System.
Open Access Policy
Modern Sport is an open journal, therefore there are no fees required for downloading any publication from the journal website by authors, readers, and institutions. The journal applies the license of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. This license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.
