Dear Readers,

As usual it gives us enormous pleasure to introduce the first issue of this year's volume of Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (MJSSM). We will standardly review the reached achievements in the previous year and bring you some personal insight into the reasons why MJSSM is such a great journal and you should cooperate with us.

We have to strengthen that our journal continues facing the great success. Even though our Journal has entered two strongest index databases (Web of Science and Scopus), one of these databases (Web of Science) continues recognizing the development of our journal that is proved by reaching a new Clarivate metric: Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) that is a measure of the average Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of citable items (articles & reviews) published by a journal over a recent three year period (2019: 0.48; 2020: 0.67). On the other hand, Scopus database also continues recognizing the development of our journal too (CiteScore 2020: 3.00, SJR 2020: 0.320; SNIP 2020: 0.633), while the ongoing tracker is promising a bit worse CiteScore calculation in 2021 (CiteScoreTracker 2021: 2.50; updated on 07 February, 2022) which is scheduled for spring 2022. Although, we are still preparing our journal to be evaluated again by Web of Science to reach a long-lasting and eager impact factor and inclusion in SCIE (Science Citation Index Expended) and SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) databases, it won’t be necessary as we just received information from Clarivate that all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection™, including those in ESCI and AHCI, are now in the JCR - bringing journals in all 254 categories to the JCR for the first time, which is the best success of Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine so far. Nevertheless, we must keep in mind that this success has not only been achieved by the management of the journal, our editors, reviewers and authors, as well as readers, have contributed equally. So, we want to thank all the participants in the rapid development of our journal again and again, and to invite all those who have not participated before, to join us in the future, to continue in the same rhythm to the same direction.

We would also like to discuss in the introduction speech about the journal statistics. The acceptance rate was a bit smaller, it was decreased for one more per cents from last preview. Currently, it is on 6% for original research submitted in period 2020-2021 and expected to keep decreasing for the upcoming period as we have more and more submissions every day. On the other hand, the time from submission to first decision is a little bit decreased (36 days), while the time from submission to publication is a bit increased (66 days).

From year to year, volume to volume and issue to issue, it is enormously important to repeat that our journal will continue working on growing academic publication in the fields of sports science and medicine; all clinical aspects of exercise, health, and sport; exercise physiology and biophysical investigation of sports performance; sport biomechanics; sports nutrition; rehabilitation, physiotherapy; sports psychology; sport pedagogy, sport history, sport philosophy, sport sociology, sport management; and all aspects of scientific support of the sports coaches from the natural, social and humanistic side, in various formats: original papers, review papers, editorials, short reports, peer review - fair review, as well as invited papers and award papers, as well as promote all other academic activities of Montenegrin Sports Academy and Faculty for Sport and Physical Education at University of Montenegro, such as publishing of academic books, conference proceedings, brochures etc.

As we usually do at the end of the introduction speech, we thank our authors one more time, who have chosen precisely our Journal to publish their manuscripts, and we would like to invite them to continue our cooperation to our mutual satisfaction. Thank you all of you for reading us and we hope you will find this issue of MJSSM informative enough.

Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Dusko Bjelica, PhD
Prof. Damir Sekulic, PhD

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