**About the Editor**

#### **Filipe Manuel Clemente**

Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente has been a university professor since the 2012/2013 academic year and is currently an assistant professor at Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer de Melgac¸o (IPVC, Portugal). Filipe holds a Ph.D. in Sports Sciences –Sports Training from the University of Coimbra; his dissertation entitled "Towards a new approach to match analysis: understanding football players'synchronization using tactical metrics"involved observation and match analysis in soccer

As scientific merit, Filipe has had 264 articles published and/or accepted by journals indexed with an impact factor (JCR), as well as over 105 scientific articles that have been peer-reviewed indexed in other indexes. In addition to scientific publications in journals and congresses, he is also the author of six international books and seven national books in the areas of sports training and football. He has also edited various special editions subordinate to sports training in football in journals with an impact factor and/or indexed in SCImago. Additionally, he is a frequent reviewer for impact factor journals in quartiles 1 and 2 of the JCR.

Although he started producing research in 2011, he was included in the restricted list of the world's most-cited researchers in the world (where only eight other Portuguese researchers in sports sciences appear), which was published in the journal Plos Biology in 2020. In 2021, the list was updated, with Filipe Manuel Clemente being again included in the top 2% of the world researchers, in which was positioned in the second place in six Portugueses included in the area of sports sciences. Filipe M. Clemente's SCOPUS h-index is 24 (with a total of 2605 citations), and his Google h-index is 35 (5305 citations). In a list promoted by independent website Expert Escape, he was ranked 40th of 14,875 researchers of football (soccer) in 2020 and in 19th of 15949 in 2021.
