Special Issue

Enhancing Health Through
Physical Activity and Sports
Science: Innovations in Applied
Research

Message from the Guest Editors

Physical activity and its role in overall health will always
remain key topics in scientific fields.Wearable
technology, biomechanics and motion capture, genetics
and personalized training, etc., are all becoming
increasingly used in the modern era to monitor physical
activity and health metrics, to understand movement
patterns and how they help with prevention, improve
human performance and support rehabilitation, to
uncover the mechanisms by which exercise affects
cellular health, muscle growth, energy systems and
much more.How applied research informs public health
campaigns aimed at increasing physical activity in
different populations and community sports programs,
school physical education and workplace health
initiatives and how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine
learning are used to predict training outcomes, optimize
physical performance and monitor health status all can
represent benchmarks for those who wish to further
their studies and research in this Special Issue.This
Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive
understanding of how advances and applied research in
sports science improve health.

Guest Editors
Dr. Cristina Ioana Alexe
Department of Physical Education and Sports Performance, “Vasile
Alecsandri” University of Bacău, 600115 Bacău, Romania

Dr. Dan Iulian Alexe
Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy, “Vasile Alecsandri”
University of Bacău, 600115 Bacău, Romania

Deadline for manuscript submissions

20 September 2025

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Sports

an Open Access Journal
by MDPI

Impact Factor 2.2
CiteScore 4.1
Indexed in PubMed

mdpi.com/journal/

sports

About the Journal

Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Sports (ISSN 2075-4663) is a peer-reviewed scientific
journal that publishes original articles, critical reviews,
research notes and short communications in the
interdisciplinary area of sport sciences and public
health. It links several scientific disciplines in an
integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to
sport science and public health. The journal presents
diverse original articles, including systematic and
narrative reviews, cohort and case control studies,
innovative randomized trials, and formative research
using qualitative and quantitative methods with the aim
to provide information for researchers to plan
intervention programs. It addresses diverse public
health, physical activity and exercise science topics.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Eling Douwe De Bruin
1. Institute of Human Movement Sciences and Sport, IBWS ETH, HCP H

25.1, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland

2. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Author Benefits

High Visibility:

indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), PubMed,
PMC, and other databases.

Journal Rank:

JCR - Q2 (Sport Sciences ) / CiteScore - Q2 (Physical
Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation)

Rapid Publication:

manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is
provided to authors approximately 19.1 days after
submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.9
days (median values for papers published in this journal in
the second half of 2024).

