Journal of Applied Health Studies in Sport Physiology (JAHSSP) as a bilaterally anonymous peer-reviewed scientific journal, is an Open access semiannual publication of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University.

This journal has started its activity based on a regulation No. 15/05/1393 issued by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, with publishing its first issue (Autumn & Winter 2014) in the Fall of 2014, in both printed and electronic formats. It renamed from “Journal of Applied Studies of Sport and Health” to “Applied Health Studies in Sport Physiology” since 2015 based on a regulation No. 73406 issued by National Central Media System, and publishes only electronic version full text papers in Persian.

Since 1403 (Iranian calendar) -2025, JAHSSP is indexed by the Ministry of Science Research and Technology (MSRT) as a

 Grade A scientific journal and according to the latest assessment of the Islamic World Science Citation (ISC) database (2023), has obtained an impact factor of 0.298 and a ranking of Q1.

This Journal has also a Cooperation Agreement  with the Iranian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology since 2022 February 9.

Long-Term Preservation, Archiving in:  Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), Scientific Information Database (SID), Google Scholar, Noormagz, National Library and Archeives of IR. IRAN,  ...  

All of the journal articles are free to access. There are no author charges prior to publication, and no charge for readers to download articles and this journal allows reuse and remixing of its content, in accordance with CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

and allows authors to retain the copyrights without restrictions.

This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws

Given the need to protect the writings of the country's esteemed researchers and avoid research violations, and in accordance with the law "Preventing and Combating Fraud in the Preparation of Scientific Works" and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology's emphasis on research ethics, it is now mandatory to upload the article's plagiarism certificate obtained from the plagiarism system at the time of submitting the article. Moreover,it is mandatory to upload the Conflict of interest and Publishing Agreement forms with submitting manuscripts prepared in this Template.

**: According to the approval of the Publishing Council of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, extended abstract (limited to 1000 words) is mandatory for papers after initial acceptance. please see Guide for Authors for detailed information.

***: According to the regulations of the Journal Review Commission, scientific research journals approved by that Commission cannot allocate more than ten percent of published articles in a year to articles by the same author. Therefore, it is stipulated that each author be allowed to have a maximum of two articles in review and ready to be published in the journal. Also each year only one paper could be published in the journal by the same author.

****: According to the guidelines of Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), Department of Citation Analysis, no more than 25% of affiliation of articles published in a year could be by the publisher and also no more than 10% of articles published in a year should be authored by editorial board members, editor in chief and managing editor.