Exercise, Sport, and Movement

An international open access, peer-reviewed journal

The scope of Exercise, Sport, and Movement (ESM) is broad, encompassing scientific, clinical, public health, community and policy topics in all areas related to sports and exercise medicine, exercise-related physiology, nutrition, metabolism and physical fitness. Manuscripts addressing movement, fitness, exercise, physical activity, health promotion, sport, and prevention and treatment of injury and disease are welcome.

Exercise, Sport, and Movement uses an e-only, continuous publication model and accepts the following article types:

Original Investigations (under all categories: applied, basic, clinical/medicine)
Clinical cases
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Brief reviews
Graphical reviews
Commentaries
Opinions
Letters to the editor
Papers referred from one of the ACSM’s other five journals
Any papers requiring gold open access (Plan S)

Call for Papers

Deadline Extended to Dec. 31, 2025

Sex Differences in Response to Exercise

ESM Student APC Assistance Fund

The ESM editors recognize that the cost of publishing open access (the article processing charge, or APC) is often a burden for authors. To help address this burden, the ESM editors are proud to announce the launch of the ESM Student APC Assistance Fund on July 1, 2025.

Provides APC assistance for student-led papers accepted in ESM

Provides $1000 toward APC for qualifying papers

Can be used in addition to 20% APC discount for ACSM members who are corresponding authors on ESM accepted papers

To qualify, a student must be the first author on the paper

Student status is determined based on ACSM student membership criteria (students do not have to be ACSM members to be eligible)

Only available on the following article types: Original Investigation, Registered Report (stage 1), Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, and Graphical Review

Not available on papers with corresponding authors from low- and middle-income countries (based on Research4Life eligibility criteria) who automatically receive full (100%) and partial (50%) APC waivers, respectively

Only the first 10 qualifying accepted papers each year apply. No additional application is necessary.

Associate Editors-in-Chief

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Deakin University
Victoria, Australia

Associate Editors

Malone University
Canton, Ohio, USA

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama, USA

Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA

Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California, USA

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, USA

Interim Editor-in-Chief

Jennifer Heisz, Ph.D.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Digital Editors

Emily F. Blake, MPH
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Anjali Bedi
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Adrienne Lee
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Paper of the Year

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An international open access, peer-reviewed journal

Sex Differences in Response to Exercise

ESM Student APC Assistance Fund

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editors

Interim Editor-in-Chief

Digital Editors

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