📚 2025 Year in Review: The International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

As 2025 comes to a close, we want to express our sincere thanks to our global community of authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and institutional partners who have helped make this a landmark year for the International Journal of Strength and Conditioning (IJSC).

In 2025, the IJSC solidified its position as the world’s leading diamond open access journal in the field of strength and conditioning:

📈 402,369 article views across 97 countries

📝 50 peer-reviewed articles published

🌍 Authors from 26 nations

🏛 Supported by 20 leading universities, including: MIT • Yale • Imperial College London • Ohio State • NYU • KU Leuven • University of Bath • Sacred Heart • University of Massachusetts Amherst • and many more

We are especially grateful for the continued support of Jisc (UK) and Lyrasis (USA), who have helped advance our mission of open, accessible research without paywalls or publication charges.

🏆 Most Viewed Article of 2025Wolf et al. – Partial vs Full Range of Motion Resistance Training: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis👉 Read the article (29,511 views)

Other notable articles published this year include:

• Unlocking Basketball Athletic Performance: Countermovement Jump Rebound (CMJ-RE) Normative Reference Values Derived from Force Plate Data Across Seven NCAA Division-I Power Five Men’s College Basketball Teams | International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

• New Perspectives for the Resistance Training of Runners: Flywheel Approach | International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

• Differences in Muscle Activation and Joint Kinematics Between Deadlift Styles When Performed at High-Intensity Training Loads | International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

• Which Metrics Can I Monitor? Test-Retest Reliability of Countermovement Jump and Countermovement Rebound Jump Force-Time Metrics in Youth Soccer Players In-Season | International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

• The Current Knowledge and Future Direction into a New Era of Eccentric Training, A Delphi Study | International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

The IJSC continues to be powered by its mission to serve coaches, scientists, and educators through high-quality, peer-reviewed research that’s free to read and free to publish.

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Thank you once again for being part of this movement to raise standards in S&C science and education.

Here’s to an even stronger 2026 💪

The IUSCA Editorial Team