Magazine History

"Retos" was founded by the Spanish Federation of Physical Education Teachers (FEADEF) in September 2001, the first issue came to light in January 2002. Since January 1, 2022, JURUFRA has been the publisher of the magazine. It aims to edit original articles related to activity science physical and sports, with their derived professional fields and with the promotion, in general, of the sports-physical culture. More specifically, with the following thematic areas on Physical Education, School Sports and Recreation: initial and permanent training, Physical Education didactics, play, body expression, physical activities in the natural environment, special educational needs, evaluation in Physical Education , children's motor skills, cross-cutting themes, school sports, sports training and physical preparation, leisure and recreation, sports management, physical activity, health and quality of life, gender and physical-sports activity, sports physiology and medicine, biomechanics, ergonomics and psychology of sport .

Starting in March 2024, a monthly issue will be published on the first day of each month, as a result of the great boom it has experienced, but always seeking quality and excellence, setting a short/medium term goal of having at least 75% rejection of articles. To do this, we will try to establish a reference number of articles by volume once we see the evolution. Until now, we publish four issues per year, in the period from January 2021 to July 2024. And from 2002 to 2021, two issues per year. Basic and/or applied research papers, theoretical reviews, dissemination and/or teaching experiences belonging to any of the thematic areas mentioned above are accepted, which are evaluated anonymously by our reviewers before publication. The works will be published mainly in Spanish, although articles written in English, French and Portuguese will also be accepted. Starting with issue 11, titles, abstracts and keywords are included in the original language and in English in all articles, except when the original language is English or Portuguese, in which case the abstract and keywords must be in Spanish.

We hope that the magazine will become a forum from which to present research, new trends and perspectives that will help our associates, and all teachers and inventors in general, to innovate in their work and better develop their educational work. and formative. This is one of our great challenges.
The organisational guidelines and editorial criteria come from the Editorial Team with the advice of the Scientific Committee, made up of professors and experts from different national and international universities and institutions. The concepts and opinions expressed in each work are the exclusive responsibility of the author, without the editorial staff or the publisher necessarily being held responsible or in solidarity.
It is published in print edition (ISSN: 1579-1726) since 2002 and in electronic (Web) edition (ISSN: 1988-2041) implemented in 2007, with full text in PDF. 
Thinking about the future, «Retos» will try to remain a journal open to any approach or orientation that is supported by arguments and the strength of the data, in such a way that they find accommodation for all the authors who are able to convince our reviewers that his manuscripts have the quality to be published.

We understand that a firm commitment to quality is the best way to serve our readers, whose suggestions are always welcome. As a result, we have changed its image and design in February 2010 with the aim of making it faster, easier to consult, as well as correcting all the errors we have detected. With everyone's help, we will make it better every day. «Retos» is open to correcting any error detected in any issue published so far.

«Retos» is included in the following documentation centers: Web of Science, Scopus, DICE (Dissemination and Editorial Quality of Spanish Journals of Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences), IN-RECS (Impact Index of Spanish Social Sciences Journals) , Latindex Catalog, Dialnet, ISOC Database - Social Sciences and Humanities (CINDOC - CSIC), Spanish Collective Catalog of Periodicals ARIADNA, Rebiun, DOAJ, Sport´docs, Ebsco, RESH, e-magazines, Sicapes (WebQualis), Periódico Capes, LivRe, IRESIE, Sherpa / Romeo, MIAR, COPAC, SUDOC, Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI), Google Académico, Recolecta, Ulrich's, Fuente Academica Premier Collection, Redalyc, HINARI journals, Sport Discus, Google scholar, Socol @r, Redalyc, Colciencias / Publindex.