* Sports management is an interdisciplinary knowledge and profession with the foundations of the humanities and social sciences. Therefore, the results of large-scale research, development and prospective programs or development of a field that is carried out in areas such as policymaking, economics and tourism, culture and technology, sustainable development, futures studies, theorizing and social issues of sports.

* Journal of Sport Management and Development (JSMD) encourages collaboration between scholars and practitioners, welcoming submissions of novel fundamental and applied researches, as well as advances in theory. This is a peer-reviewed Persian language journal with English Extended abstract.

* "This journal is accredited under reference number 3/18/528026, dated December 11, 2013, by the Center of Planning and Research Policy of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology with the scientific-research domain.

* The submitted manuscripts will be initially screened by Sinaweb Smart Finder (Homayab) for plagiarism detection and then will be sent for a peerevaluation.

* All intellectual property rights of the work belong to the author; this journal grants authors its intellectual property rights under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED license.

* The Journal of Sports Management and Development, with respect to the rules of ethics in publications, is subject to the rules of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows the executive regulations of the Law on Prevention and Combating Fraud in Scientific Works.

* According to the resolution of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Technology of the University of Guilan, the author(s) are charged 4,000,000 Rials for the publication. Esteemed authors are required to upload copies of their payment receipts upon approval from the reviewers and before the article acceptance.

* All submitted articles must be formatted in the latest template of the journal, found at Instructions for Authors. Otherwise, the journal office is not authorized to accept and articles for publication.

* All sources must be written in English; references must be in APA style and the references at the end of the article must be hyperlinked to the original article.

* According to the journal's new policy, articles written with the participation of international professors will be given priority, and the review and assignment process for these articles will take a maximum of 20 days.

* According to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology's Scientific Journals Commission's guidelines on not allocating more than 10 percent of published articles per year to duplicate authors, articles from individuals who have at least two accepted or under review articles will be rejected.

* According to the regulations of the Islamic World Citation Database (ISC), no more than 25 percent of articles should be published by authors affiliated with the journal's franchise institution in any given year, and no more than 10 percent of articles should be assigned to the editor, managing director, or members of the editorial board in any given year.

* The flow diagram of the stages of peer review and acceptance of the article is described in the article review process section.

This journal has a memorandum of understanding with the Iranian Sports Management Scientific Association.

Owner: University of Guilan

Speed/acceptance

• 3 days avg. from submission to first decision
• 90 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
• 21 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
• 10% acceptance rate

Citation metrics

• 093 (2024)Impact Factor in ISC
• ISC (2024): Q3,Q4
• MSRT (2024): B

Publication rank in the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology: B

Publication rank in ISC: 3rd quartile (Medical and Health Sciences) and 4th (Social Sciences)

• Publication address: Rasht - 10th kilometer of Tehran Road - Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences - P.O. Box 1438
• Email: jsmd@guilan.ac.ir