Open Access
This is an open access journal: all articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The APC for this journal is USD 980, excluding taxes. For all papers submitted before the 31st of December 2025, the APC will be waived making it free to submit to the journal.
Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.
User Rights
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license(s):
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
For non-commercial purposes, let others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.
Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses an agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to Chengdu Sport University and China Sport Science Society, but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.
Publishing Schedule
This journal is published four times per year (quarterly).
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Dr. Junzhi Sun
Email: smhs@cdsu.edu.cn
Phone: +86-28-85065590
Address: No.2 Tiyuan Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, 610041
