Announcements

• Quality Indicators 2024 - Impact Factor 2024

  2025-06-07

  In the 2024 Scopus CitaScore:
  It ranks in the 94th percentile (Q1) in Social Sciences in Cultural Studies; the 88th percentile (Q1) in Health Professions in Pharmacy; the 80th percentile (Q1) in Social Sciences in Gender Studies; the 71st percentile (Q2) in Medicine in Rehabilitation; the 70th percentile (Q2) in Social Sciences in Education; the 66th percentile (Q2) in Health Professions in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy, and Rehabilitation; and the 64th percentile (Q2) in Medicine in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
  In the 2024 SJR:
  It ranks in Q1 in Cultural Studies; Q2 in Pharmacy and Gender Studies; and Q3 in Education; in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
  SNIP 2024 is 1,125

  https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100468901

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• Opening of the platform

  2025-05-28

  Dear readers, authors, and reviewers:

  The Retos journal platform is back up and running at FECYT. This was the final maintenance performed before migrating to our own platform. It will be available in a few days, once everything is working perfectly.

  To avoid problems accessing it, it is necessary to delete the browsing history or cache, which is important for those users who have difficulty doing so.

  We will notify you of the journal's new address once it is up and running properly and fully configured. We hope to do so this week. It won't be long now. We apologize for any inconvenience.

  Remember that you can always contact us via email: retosfeadef@gmail.com

  Sincerely,
  Retos Editorial Team

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• Notice of temporary service interruption

  2025-05-06

  Temporary Service Interruption Notice

  Dear readers, authors and reviewers,

  Due to scheduled maintenance and service improvements, access to Retos (RECYT) will be suspended for a short period of time.

  During this period, we kindly ask you to refrain from submitting new manuscripts or performing review tasks on the platform, as they will not be processed properly.

  If you wish to submit articles to the journal for review, please send them to retosfeadef@gmail.com while service is restored. You can also send any questions or concerns to this same email address.

  Once the work is completed, the journal will be available again on an upgraded platform.

  We apologise for any inconvenience this temporary interruption may cause and appreciate your understanding.

  Kind regards,
  Retos Editorial Team

   

  Aviso de interrupción temporal del servicio

  Estimadas lectoras y lectores, autoras y autores, revisoras y revisores:

  Con motivo de tareas programadas de mantenimiento y mejora del servicio, el acceso a la revista Retos (RECYT) quedará suspendido por breve espacio de tiempo.

  Durante este periodo, les rogamos que se abstengan de realizar nuevos envíos de trabajos o tareas de revisión en la plataforma, ya que estas no podrán procesarse correctamente.

  Si quieren enviar artículos a la revista para que sean revisados, deberán hacerlo a la dirección de correo: retosfeadef@gmail.com mientras se reestablece el servicio. Igualmente, enviar cualquier consulta o necesidad a este mismo email.

  Una vez completados los trabajos, la revista volverá a estar disponible.

  Lamentamos las molestias que esta interrupción pueda ocasionar y agradecemos de antemano su comprensión.

  Atentamente,
  Equipo Editorial de Retos

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• Favorable re-evaluation by Scopus

  2025-01-23

  Retos has been re-evaluated by Scopus favorably, maintaining its current position in the 78th percentile (Q1) of CiteScore

  It is ranked in the 68th percentile (Q2) in Education; 64th percentile (Q2) in Physiotherapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation; 59th percentile (Q2) in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine; 78th percentile (Q1) in Pharmacy. Likewise, in Scimago Journal Rank it is in Q2 in Education; in Physiotherapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation; in Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.

  https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100468901#tabs=0

  Outcome of the re-evaluation

  Fecha: El miércoles, 18 dic 2024 a las 21:22
  Asunto: The re-evaluation of "Retos (Spain)" for Scopus is complete
  Title: Retos (Spain)

  ISSN / E-ISSN: 1579-1726 / 1988-2041

  Publisher: Federación Española de Docentes de Educación Física - JURUFRA
  
  Dear Francisco Ruiz Juan,

  The title mentioned above has been re-evaluated by the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) to determine whether the title meets the content selection standards of Scopus today. The re-evaluation of this title is now complete and it was decided to continue with the indexing of this title in Scopus and any content that was paused during the re-evaluation will be added to Scopus within 4 weeks.

  For your information, the reason for making this decision is:

  Sample papers are by a mix of international authors - though some have a relatively large number of authors per published paper. Paper quality and cited references are generally good. The journal's commissioned report has clearly outlined the problem of group submission and citation patterns by authors from Indonesia. The journal's website has now indicated a clear statement on how to reduce unwarranted oversubmission and self-citations in potential papers: https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/retos/Ajustes. We are am reasonably comfortable with this quick editorial action. The decision is to continue indexing for now and recheck this title in the near future.

  …

  Yours sincerely,

  The Scopus Team

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• Q2 en SRJ

  2024-10-30

  Retos has been included in Q2 in SRJ.

  The magazine Retos is in the second quartile of Scopus in: Education (perceptile 68, position 494 of 1543; Q2); Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (59rd percentile, position 131 out of 321, Q3); Physiotherapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (64th percentile, 88th position out of 247; Q2) and in the first quartile in Pharmacy (78th percentile, position 10 out of 45; Q1).

  https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100468901#tabs=0

  

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• Sixth Challenges in Google Scholar's Most Cited Publications 2024

  2024-10-25

  Challenges is among the most cited publications of Google Scholar 2024, ranking sixth in the h5 index

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• Adjustments to the editorial policy of Retos

  2024-01-25

  Based on the large avalanche of articles that we have been receiving in Retos in recent months, we are forced to make some Editorial Adjustments in order to meet the needs that have been created since it is totally impossible to submit all of them for review and possible publication. Therefore, from February 2024, a pre-selection of the articles that will be submitted for review by the members of the Editorial Team will be carried out based on the following issues that we will now outline. Those articles rejected at this first moment do not mean that they do not meet quality requirements, but rather that we understand that they are not part of the editorial priorities at this time. Currently, we have raised the rejection rate in the last three months to almost 75%. The effect of the application of these policies should be reflected in early 2025, once the works that are in the process of review have been published. These priorities are:

  1. In theoretical reviews, priority will be given to those from quantitative systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses, as well as scoping reviews (PRISMA, AMSTAR-2, MOOSE, REGEMA). Narrative reviews will not be accepted. For the rest of the reviews, the publisher must be contacted before being sent so that they can authorise or not their submission. Those that do not do so will be automatically rejected.
  2. Articles within the section “Teaching experiences developed and investigated with empirical work” will only be accepted if their applications have been evaluated. Proposals that have NOT been put into practice and do NOT contain results of the implementation will be rejected. Research protocols will not be accepted. Bibliometric analyses are also excluded.
  3. In the section “Articles of a scientific nature: basic and/or applied research works” we will give priority to randomised empirical research and those works that present multivariate analysis. Merely descriptive articles must be of interest and justified, otherwise they will be rejected unless previously authorized by the editor. National surveys may be submitted and published.
  4. We are especially sensitive to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Articles with plagiarism equal to or greater than 15% will be rejected, excluding bibliographical references. Reviewers will use different programs to detect plagiarism throughout the text evaluation process. Authors who infringe this aspect will be sanctioned with five years of not being able to submit articles to the Retos journal. Authors who have used artificial intelligence must indicate which applications and in which processes and sections they have been used. Likewise, all articles published by the author(s) involved will be withdrawn. The journal, for its part, will use the anti-plagiarism program Turnitin just before its final publication. We have currently started a review of all manuscripts published in the journal Retos to detect articles that have a higher percentage of plagiarism than allowed when they were published. We started in November 2024. We will do so month by month in reverse order of publication until at least 2020. We hope to have this work completed before the end of the year 2024. All articles that contain a higher percentage of plagiarism will be retracted for bad practices.
  5. Likewise, we want to emphasize our most emphatic rejection of bad editorial practices from which the Retos journal has totally distanced itself from its beginnings and which it maintains today. We continue to maintain the editorial policy of transparency and quality in the editing process of all articles in such a way that all are blind way, the list of reviewers is public (a total of 5140 until 07/09/2024) and no article is published that does not have the approval and acceptance of all reviewers. Only articles that fit the editorial line of the journal are accepted. We publish the articles once the deadlines, times and established processes are met in a completely precise manner. We care about quality and legitimacy. Our ultimate goal continues to be to promote, preserve and disseminate knowledge, that is how we started and that is how we continue.
  6. The article will be framed within the topics of interest of the journal and of the world scientific society (works with local problems must have a high level of quality to be sent, otherwise they will be rejected without being sent for review).
  7. The article must be a rigorous work that complies with the basic standards of the scientific and academic field of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences.
  8. The article has a concise but informative title in Spanish and English, consisting of no more than two lines (no more than 20 words, although it is recommended that it has between 12 and 15).
  9. The article has a summary, keywords and the rest of the structure of the work. Both the summary and the keywords will be in Spanish and English, correctly translated by a native speaker who certifies and asserts that it is grammatically correct.
  10. Research papers have a structure with the following points: introduction, material and methods, analysis and results, discussion, conclusions and references.
  11. Bibliographic references follow the APA 7th Edition regulations.
  12. All references where possible must have their corresponding DOI, checking at https://crossref.org/
  13. The references are up-to-date and are consistent and sufficient with the topic being worked on. They must not contain ornamental references.
  14. Author self-citations must not exceed 10% of the total references used. Only in cases of genuine need may they be higher, and permission must be requested from the journal editor. Citations to the Retos journal must be taken with care, not using anything more than what is necessary for the work presented to be completely correct. We will monitor these aspects closely and reject articles that make unjustified abuse of self-citations, whatever type they may be.
  15. All works must have the authorization of all the people who have participated in them, and the journal is not responsible for bad practices by authors who exclude people who have worked on said works. If any of this is detected and proven, all authors will be sanctioned with a five-year ban from submitting articles to the Retos journal. Likewise, all articles published by the author(s) involved will be withdrawn.
  16. From 2025, Retos will try, as far as possible, to ensure that in each issue there is no more than one work signed by a first author and another in which he or she appears as a co-author. In any case, in the same year an author may not have published in the journal more than 1.5% of the total articles published by the journal. The list of authors will be published alphabetically in each issue, indicating the number of works that each author has, in order to comply with this requirement and its transparency.
  17. As of 2025, the maximum number of authors per article is limited to 8. If a research requires a greater number of authors, a letter must be sent to the editor of the journal explaining, reasoning and requesting a greater number of authors. This request will be studied by the Editorial Team according to its scope and a decision will be made and notified to the authors.
  18. From 11/01/2024 it will be necessary to send the articles adjusted to the article submission template found at https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/retos/Plantilla

  Updated on 01/11/2024

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• FECYT

  2024-01-07

  Retos, in the classification that FECYT makes of the Quality of Spanish Journals, in the year 2023, occupies the first position in the journals of Psychology and the second position among the journals of Educational Sciences, therefore it is in the first quartile, having a direct and positive impact on ANECA

  https://calidadrevistas.fecyt.es/listado-revistas

  https://calidadrevistas.fecyt.es/revistas-sello-fecyt/retos-nuevas-tendencias-en-educacion-fisica-deporte-y-recreacion

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• ANECA

  2024-01-07

  Retos is in the first quartile of ANECA

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• One number per month

  2024-01-07

  From March 2024 an issue will be published monthly.

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• Índice H

  2018-11-30

  Retos figura entre las cinco revistas científicas españolas con el mayor Índice H en las métricas de Google Scholar, en 2023.

  https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&vq=es

  Retos en PRIMER LUGAR en los índices H en las Ciencias del Deporte.

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• Web of Science de Thomson Reuters - Scopus

  2017-03-27

  "Retos" se encuentra indexada de  la Web of Science de Thomson Reuters.
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