Keywords
Athletic Training Scholarship
Abstract
To be of service to others means to help others without expecting anything in return. The ClinAT, or Clinical Practice in Athletic Training journal, is an online, open-access outlet for the dissemination of practice-based research in health care, and a donation of time, effort, and energy to the profession of athletic training. In 2018, when Indiana State University created its first issue of ClinAT, we were a faculty of 3 with 5 PhD students supporting the journal, one of whom was wholly dedicated to the effort. As the higher education landscape has changed, and the roles and responsibilities of our faculty have evolved, so too has the make-up of support for the journal. Different than our counterparts in the profession, who are now charging publication fees or have full-time staff editors, we are a team of dedicated servant leaders, who come to this work, on top of our regular duties and responsibilities. We seek like-minded folks to serve in associate editor and reviewer roles - people who want to provide an inclusive and practitioner-friendly journal where people read the research and use it in practice. We appreciate the other challenges of higher education and health care, including the pressures of retention, tenure and promotion, as well as merit and recognition for scholarly contributions. And we are dedicated to timely review and publication, yet we acknowledge that reviewers and our team battle the challenges of work-life conflict that pervade employment in our society. We rededicate ourselves to publishing works within 12 months of acceptance. We ask the readership and author contributors to be considerate of these principles in our publication scheduling. This issue, we are unveiling our new logo, revised mission and vision statements, and website. Logo: Our new logo highlights the name of the journal, as it is colloquially known. Mission: Clinical Practice in Athletic Training (ClinAT): A Journal of Translational, Outcomes, and Action Research is an online, open-access outlet for the dissemination of practice-based research in health care. The journal provides translational research that studies the result of patient-centered health services, leadership, and education. Vision: We believe in the value of the clinician’s voice in bridging the gap between clinical practice and best available evidence. The vision of ClinAT is to provide an outlet for the practicing healthcare provider to share their story, successes and failures, in terms of patient services and practice advancement. We strive to offer unique manuscript styles and dissemination types, while blending the principles of evidence-based practice and emerging frameworks for clinical practice. Website: Our new website will be housed through DigitalCommons, similar to other peer journals in athletic training. This migration to a new platform provides a better reader experience along with more tools and tracking readership metrics for authors. We will be sunsetting our old website starting in March. However, all of our backlogged articles and issues have been transferred over to the new system and are already accessible. We will continue to migrate DOIs to the new weblinks, but the DOI addresses will not change. Additionally, we have made improvements to the submission and review process for both authors and reviewers. You can access the new website at the link below. If you have a previous DigitalCommons login, it will be the same for the new ClinAT website. https://scholars.indianastate.edu/clinat/
Recommended Citation
Eberman, Lindsey and Rivera, Matthew J.
(2025)
"ClinAT: In Service to Athletic Training Scholarship,"
Clinical Practice in Athletic Training: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/clinat/vol8/iss1/1
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