Colby B. Jubenville

MURFREESBORO, Tenn.—Colby B. Jubenville, publisher and co-founder of the Journal of Sport Administration & Supervision, has announced the journal’s first call for papers.

“We are pleased to open the submission process for authors to send their research for consideration and review,” Jubenville said.

“This day has been many months in development, but when authors see the outlet we’ve created for their work, we believe they will agree with us when we say that JSAS is an outlet exactly like no other journal.”

Jubenville, an associate professor of sport management and graduate program coordinator at Middle Tennessee State University, pointed to several distinct features that combine to uniquely distinguish JSAS, some of which have been added only in recent days.

Phenomenology
Focusing research toward a more precise study of distinct phenomena, ideas, and events

Development of the Scholarly Sport Practitioner
Channeling pragmatic information that encourages sport management practitioners to champion ethics and pioneer innovation

Development of Social Responsibility in Sport Organizations & Stakeholders
Publishing research that will enable sport organizations and stakeholders to better understand and function in their roles within sport

Open-Access
Disseminating research knowledge in a format that is readily and globally accessible to scholars, practitioners, students, media, and the public.

Other unique and distinct features of JSAS include:

Reviews by both academicians and practitioners
Manuscripts will typically be reviewed by two academicians, who will review the scholarly versions of the manuscripts, and one practitioner, who will review management whitepaper versions of the manuscripts.

Author copyright ownership
Authors whose works are published in JSAS will retain the copyrights to their own work.

Aggressive indexing & media relations
JSAS will disseminate the knowledge contained in its articles beyond the journal through aggressive indexing/listing/profiling of JSAS in relevant databases and publications, as well as through active media relations initiatives.

Online Journal System
JSAS offers authors a streamlined online submission and review process that allows for easy manuscript submission and tracking in eight steps.

Digital Object Identifiers
A Digital Object Identifier is a persistent, authoritative, and unique identifier that a publisher assigns to each article. Because of its persistence, DOIs will enable publishers to link to the article referenced, and the link will not break over time, greatly aiding the scholarly research process.

Jubenville said that while none of these ideas or features were new, their combination under one journal roof would become JSAS’s exclusive signature.

“We’ve developed the idea for the journal for quite a while, and during that time, we were able to pull some of the best features from several of them and make JSAS a very progressive academic publication outlet,” Jubenville said.

When asked about the scope of articles to be published by the journal, Jubenville noted that the founders of JSAS elected to keep its scope fairly broad to allow it to cover essentially all areas of sport management science.

“Instead of trying to focus JSAS topically in an attempt to generate the perception of higher research quality, we elected to establish our journal’s quality through high-quality peer reviewing from a high-quality editorial board,” Jubenville said.

According to Jubenville, JSAS welcomes for review papers that examine topics that primarily center upon some aspect of the administration and supervision of amateur, elite, semiprofessional, and professional sports, including (but not limited to) administration/organizational behavior, marketing, law, economics/finance, history, sociology, ethics, coaching, institutional interaction, secondary (high school) interaction, professional sport interaction, intra-departmental interaction, and media.

Jubenville noted that manuscripts focusing upon process improvement would be considered particularly important to the journal’s mission.

For further details about JSAS and to access the Call For Papers and Requirements for Manuscripts, visit http://www.jsasonline.org, or contact journal editor Benjamin Goss at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .