SCIENCE OF GYMNASTICS JOURNAL
Vol. 6 Issue 3 2014
EDITORIAL
Dear friends,
Some of our wishes come through, we got Scopus evaluation, and for the first evaluated year of 2013 we have following results:
Title	SNIP 2013	IPP 2013	SJR 2013
Science of Gymnastics Journal	0.092	0.05	0.205
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The Impact per Publication (IPP) measures the ratio of citations per article published in the journal. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. Scopus ranked us into 4th quartile of journals, even better results we received from SJR SCImago where we had for 2013 20 articles published and 10 cites and we are pplaced into 3rd quartile.
Science of Gymnastics Journal		
Indicator	2006-2013	Value
SJR	> * ♦ ♦ ♦ *	0.21
Cites per doc * * Total cites * *	» • ♦ ♦ ♦ t' » • • • •	0.5 10
	www.scimagojr.com	
Such results would not be accomplish without our authors and reviewers who made good articles. Of course, our thanks go also to those who cited our articles and we hope there will be more of them in the future if we will be also included into Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge IF.
For the third issue in 2014, our fellow researchers prepared six articles from the fields of judging, physical education, biomechanics and history. With renoved professor Anton Gajdoš (Slovakia) author of many gymnastics books and articles we agreed he will have short historical notes about best gymnasts. He has quite big archive and it is worth to publish.
The first article is about judging artistry in women artistic gymnastics and is written from Slovenian authors Maja Bučar Pajek, Marjeta Kovač, Jernej Pajek and Bojan Leskošek, article was prepared with Neli Kim (FIG, WTC president) support and some of ideas were already implemented into new Code of Points.
The second article deals with gymnastics safety within physical education classes. Tunisia team Sarra Hammoudi Nassib, Bessem Mkaouer, Sabri Nassib, Sameh Menzli, Hela Znazen, Sabra Hammoudi Riahi and Ahmed Njeh; notes it is not important just active support of pupil, but as well are important apparatus management and class management.
The third article was prepared by María Alejandra Ávalos Ramos, María Ángeles Martínez Ruiz and Gladys Merma Molina from Spain. Their research analyses the limitations of gymnastics
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SCIENCE OF GYMNASTICS JOURNAL
Vol. 6 Issue 3 2014
teaching in Secondary Schools and it would be important when designing the curriculum, to know the practice of teachers which could contribute to the implementation of new models of professional development and training.
The fourth article is from Slovenia by Miha Marinšek and Uroš Slana. They developed and standardized software for Android smart phones to analyse equilibrium during training seasons, which can be used in different gymnastics sports where equilibrium oscilations matters.
The fifth article is from Greek Theofanis Siatras, he examined the acute effect of synergist and antagonist muscles static stretching (SS) on the body segmental angles. As we are using stretching in everyday practice it is worth to read article if we want to be better coaches.
The last article is from Jože Podpečnik, who works at Slovene National Museum and he prepared interesting historical article about Sokol uniforms. It is worth to note, not many federations take care about their dresses from the past. But this artefacts are important for new generations to learn from our experience.
Just to remind you, if you quote the Journal: its abbreviation in the Web of Knowledge is SCI GYMNASTICS J. I wish you pleasant reading and a lot of inspiration for new research projects and articles,
Ivan Čuk Editor-in-Chief
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