The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA) is the official journal of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA). IJBNPA is published by BMC (part of Springer Nature) and is regarded as one of their flagship journals. The journal has a strong impact factor (IF), which currently stands at 8.915. IJBNPA is an online, scholarly, multidisciplinary journal publishing high quality research. IJBNPA is devoted to furthering the understanding of the behavioral aspects of diet and physical activity. It is unique for its inclusion of multiple levels of analysis, including populations, groups, and individuals, plus its inclusion of epidemiology, and behavioral, theoretical, and measurement research
areas. For more information on the journal’s aims, scope, and content, please visit the journal website at: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/.

The IJBNPA team currently consists of: Richard Rosenkranz (Editor-in-Chief); Sunday Onagbiye (Journal Manager) Clare Collins, Delfien Van Dyck, Nanna Lien (Deputy Editors), and the current Associate Editors Laura Bellows, Rebecca Byrne, Bronwyn Clark, Shufa Du, Scott Duncan, Zan Gao, Louisa Gordon, Maria Hagströmer, Melanie Hingle, Wendy Huang, Niko Kaciroti, Mark Kelson, Katherine Livingstone, Emily Mailey, Kim Meredith-Jones

Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Dana Lee Olstad, Stephanie Prince Ware, Patricia Risica, Tom Stewart, Lukar Thornton, Zoi Toumpakari, Amy Yaroch, and Qianling Zhou.

We are looking to increase our editorial capacity in a few key areas to maintain high quality and timely handling and decision-making for all manuscript submissions. Hence, we wish to recruit new Associate Editors who can strengthen and complement our team with appropriate expertise in behavioral nutrition, physical activity, and related areas.

Associate Editors at IJBNPA are responsible for selecting qualified reviewers to review the submitted manuscripts, efficiently managing the peer-review process, and making recommendations for decisions. They are also expected to provide procedural and tactical feedback to enhance the journal’s operational efficiency and quality of service.

Suitable Associate Editor candidates should have:

• expertise in implementation science OR qualitative research OR systems science AND experience applying that expertise to behavioral nutrition or physical activity (BNPA)
• substantial experience in publishing research in high-quality journals
• substantial experience in reviewing scientific papers for high-quality journals, including IJBNPA
• some experience as member of an editorial board (preferable)
• a commitment to ISBNPA / IJBNPA
• time to spend at least 2 hours per week working on journal-related tasks Preference will be given to candidates who express a willingness to serve for a period of at least two years. Interested candidates should send a 1-page letter outlining their interest in the role and any relevant experience, along with a brief CV (max 2-pages) to richard.rosenkranz@unlv.edu. The deadline for applications is Wednesday February 15th 2022.
  It is anticipated that new Associate Editors will commence duty in March or April, 2023. For more information, please contact Editor-in-Chief Richard Rosenkranz at richard.rosenkranz@unlv.edu.

The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA) is the official journal of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA). IJBNPA is published by BMC (part of Springer Nature) and is regarded as one of their flagship journals. The journal has a strong impact factor (IF), which currently stands at 6.457. IJBNPA is an online, scholarly, multidisciplinary journal publishing high quality research. IJBNPA is devoted to furthering the understanding of the behavioral aspects of diet and physical activity. It is unique for its inclusion of multiple levels of analysis, including populations, groups, and individuals, plus its inclusion of epidemiology, and behavioral, theoretical, and measurement research
areas. For more information on the journal’s aims, scope, and content, please visit the journal website at: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | Home page (biomedcentral.com).

We are looking to increase our editorial capacity to maintain high quality and timely handling and decision- making for all manuscript submissions. Hence, we wish to recruit new Associate Editors who can strengthen and complement our team with appropriate expertise in behavioral nutrition, physical activity, and related areas.

Associate Editors at IJBNPA are responsible for selecting qualified reviewers to review the submitted manuscripts, efficiently managing the peer-review process, and making recommendations for decisions. They are also expected to provide procedural and tactical feedback to enhance the journal’s operational efficiency and quality of service.

Suitable Associate Editor candidates should have:

• expertise in behavioral nutrition or physical activity (BNPA) may include health behaviors that are closely related to BNPA
• substantial experience in publishing research in high-quality journals
• substantial experience in reviewing scientific papers for high-quality journals and preferably for IJBNPA
• some experience as member of an editorial board (preferable)
• a commitment to ISBNPA / IJBNPA
• time to spend at least 2 hours per week working on journal-related tasks

Preference will be given to candidates who express a willingness to serve for a period of at least two years. Interested candidates should send a 1-page letter outlining their interest in the role and any relevant experience, along with a brief CV (max 2-pages) to ricardo@ksu.edu.

The deadline for applications is Friday July 15th 2022.
It is anticipated that new Associate Editors will commence duty in August or September, 2022.

For more information, please contact Editor-in-Chief Richard Rosenkranz at ricardo@ksu.edu.

We are pleased to inform you of the IJBNPA awards.

Firstly, we present the names of the Outstanding Reviewer Contributions 2021.

And the most cited papers in each category.

ISBNPA is proud to help our colleagues at SBRN, the University of Prince Edward Island, and the CHEO Research Institute in the dissemination efforts of these important recommendations.

Please read the full press release below and also the two papers, published in IJBNPA, with the recommendations and evidence supporting them.

Global recommendations released to reduce sedentary time at school

OTTAWA, Canada

An international report with recommendations designed to counteract school-related sedentary behaviour in children and youth, exacerbated by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, has been released by the Sedentary Behaviour Research Network (SBRN), in partnership with the University of Prince Edward Island and the CHEO Research Institute.

The report, International School-Related Sedentary Behaviour Recommendations for Children and Youth, is a world first and aspires to inform and guide students, educators, school administrators, policymakers, parent and guardians, caregivers, physicians, and other healthcare providers in the promotion of student health and wellness.

“High levels of sedentary behaviour, especially screen time, are associated with negative health and academic outcomes for school-aged children and youth,” said Dr. Travis Saunders, lead author of the new recommendations and Associate Professor of Applied Human Sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island. “Given that the school day is largely sedentary and with screen time taking on an increasingly important role for many students since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, these new evidence-based recommendations are timely and provide globally applicable guidance for managing sedentary behaviours performed during the school day or as homework.”

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began two years ago, children and youth across Canada and around the world have spent unprecedented time sedentary in front of digital screens for school and recreation purposes. Sedentary behaviours are activities done while awake that involve low-energy expenditure while sitting or lying down. The World Health Organization and many countries, including Canada, have developed guidelines for minimizing the health impacts of sedentary behaviour; however, these recommendations focus on overall sedentary behaviour and recreational screen time. To date, there have not been any evidence-based recommendations specifically related to sedentary behaviours performed during the school day or as homework.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, most children were not meeting public health guidelines for sedentary behaviours and recreational screen time, noted Dr. Saunders.

SBRN convened an international panel of experts to prepare draft recommendations and consulted 148 stakeholders from 23 countries to produce the final recommendations that are listed below. Full details of the recommendation development process were published today in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-022-01259-3). The recommendations have already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Inuktitut, Nepalese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, and Vietnamese, all of which are available on the SBRN website.

SBRN Recommendations:

A healthy school-day includes:

• Breaking up periods of extended sedentary behaviour with both scheduled and unscheduled movement breaks
  • at least once every 30 minutes for ages 5–11 years
  • at least once every hour for ages 12–18 years
  • consider a variety of intensities and durations (e.g., standing, stretching breaks, moving to another classroom, active lessons, active breaks).
• Incorporating different types of movement (e.g., light activities that require movement of any body parts, and moderate to vigorous activities that require greater physical effort) into homework whenever possible, and limiting sedentary homework to no more than 10 minutes per day, per grade level. For example, in Canada this means typically no more than 10 minutes per day in grade 1, or 60 minutes per day in grade 6.
• Regardless of the location, school-related screen time should be meaningful, mentally or physically active, and serve a specific pedagogical purpose that enhances learning compared to alternative methods. When school-related screen time is warranted,
  • limit time on devices, especially for students 5–11 years of age;
  • take a device break at least once every 30 minutes;
  • discourage media-multitasking in the classroom and while doing homework;
  • avoid screen-based homework within an hour of bedtime.
• Replacing sedentary learning activities with movement-based learning activities (including standing) and replacing screen-based learning activities with non-screen-based learning activities (e.g., outdoor lessons) can further support students’ health and wellbeing.

“The goal of these recommendations is to help maximize the benefits and minimize the harms of school-related sedentary behaviours,” said Dr. Mark Tremblay, Chair of SBRN, Senior Scientist at the CHEO Research Institute, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. “In 2020, the ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth gave Canadian children and youth a D+ grade for sedentary behaviours, and during the pandemic, the grade has plummeted further. These new recommendations will help schools be part of the solution.”

“We hope these recommendations help principals, teachers, parents, and students to contain unnecessary sedentary behaviour and screen time,” added Melanie Davis, Executive Director of Physical and Health Education Canada and a contributor to the recommendations. “We all need to work together to recalibrate the healthy movement behaviours of children and youth.”

References:

Saunders et al. International School-Related Sedentary Behaviour Recommendations for Children and Youth. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-022-01259-3

Kuzik et al. School-Related Sedentary Behaviours and Indicators of Health and Well-Being Among Children and Youth: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-022-01258-4

Congratulations to Kieran Dowd and co-authors for winning the @IJBNPA Most Cited Paper Award in the REVIEW category.

Congratulations to @DavyVancampfort and co-authors for winning the @IJBNPA Most Cited Paper Award in the OBSERVATIONAL category.

Congratulations to @Harriet_Koorts and co-authors for winning the @IJBNPA Most Cited Paper Award in the METHODOLOGY category.

Congratulations to Jennifer Norman and co-authors for winning the @IJBNPA Most Cited Paper Award in the RCT category.

A very special congrats to @stuart_biddle @DrTomStewart @DrSchipperijn and @gaogaozan for winning the @IJBNPA Outstanding Reviewer Contributions award 2020. We are grateful for all their excellent reviews, performed in such an extraordinary year.

The IJBNPA team consists of Hidde van der Ploeg (Editor-in-Chief), Léonie Uijtdewilligen (Journal Manager), Ester Cerin, Clare Collins and Kirsten Davison (all three Deputy Editors), and the current Associate Editors: Laura Bellows, Bronwyn Clark, Scott Duncan, Benjamin Gardner, Louisa Gordon, Maria Hagströmer, Melanie Hingle, Wendy Huang, Ruth Hunter, Melinda Hutchesson, Niko Kaciroti, Mark Kelson, Nanna Lien, Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Teresia O’Connor, Dana Lee Olstad, Richard Rosenkranz, Delfien Van Dyck, Esther van Sluijs and Katrien Wijndaele.

We are looking to increase our editorial capacity to maintain high quality and timely handling and decision-making for all manuscript submissions. Hence, we wish to recruit new Associate Editors with behavioral nutrition expertise who can strengthen and complement our team.

Associated Editors at IJBNPA are responsible for selecting qualified reviewers to review the submitted manuscripts, efficiently managing the peer-review process and making recommendations for decisions. They are also expected to provide procedural- and tactical-level feedback to enhance the journal’s operational efficiency and quality of service.

Suitable candidates should have:

• expertise in behavioral nutrition
• substantial experience in publishing research in high quality journals;
• substantial experience in reviewing scientific papers for high quality journals and preferablyfor IJBNPA;
• preferably some experience as member of an editorial board;
• a commitment to ISBNPA / IJBNPA;
• time to spend at least 2 hours per week working on journal-related tasks.

Preference will be given to candidates who express a willingness to serve for a period of at least two years. Interested candidates should send a 1-page letter outlining their interest in the role and any relevant experience along with a brief CV (max 2-pages) to ijbnpa@vumc.nl.

• The deadline for applications is Monday April 12th 2021.
  It is anticipated that new Associate Editors will commence duty during the summer of 2021.

For questions or requests for more information, please contact the Journal Manager Dr Léonie Uijtdewilligen at l.uijtdewilligen@vumc.nl or ijbnpa@vumc.nl.IJBNPA