Publications

The Fight Medicine Research Institute’s own work is identified by its author, genuine affiliation, contribution, methods, support and review status. Our publications record keeps that work accessible and traceable. The Research Library separately credits the original investigators and publishers of externally authored studies.

Official publication: Fight Medicine Journal

Fight Medicine Journal is the official publication of Fight Medicine Research Institute, which is its founding academic affiliate and sponsor. It is published by Sears Publishing Company, the trading name of Sears, LLC. The journal’s editors decide what it publishes. Work from the Fight Medicine Research Institute receives no preferential treatment there.

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Fight Medicine Research Institute publications

  1. Brain measures after fighters stop competing

    Casey C. Sears. Selected-paper appraisal of Zhuang et al., 2022, Neurology. First published ; version 1.2, .

    Fight Medicine Research Institute contribution: Study-design appraisal, examination of exposure measurement and confounding, and identification of outcomes relevant to long-term fighter follow-up.

  2. Mental-health symptoms in elite kickboxers

    Casey C. Sears. Selected-paper appraisal of Bilgoe et al., 2025, Discover Mental Health. First published ; version 1.2, .

    Fight Medicine Research Institute contribution: Examination of sampling, outcome definitions, and the reported association tests for fighter mental-health research planning.

  3. Combat-sport concussion management

    Casey C. Sears. Selected-paper appraisal of Neidecker et al., 2019, British Journal of Sports Medicine. First published ; version 1.2, .

    Fight Medicine Research Institute contribution: Classification of the evidence type and appraisal of its contribution to developing research questions for standardized post-bout head-trauma assessment.

Output register

The register links each Fight Medicine Research Institute output to its author, research program, method, funding, review status and identifiers. It holds 3 outputs. The 35 records in the Research Library are external and related-party works that the Fight Medicine Research Institute catalogues. They are not Fight Medicine Research Institute outputs and are not in the register.

  1. EA-001 Brain measures after fighters stop competing

    Type
    Selected-paper appraisal. Version 1.2, . First published .
    Author
    Casey C. Sears, Fight Medicine Research Institute, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. ORCID 0009-0000-6344-1143
    Review
    Editorial approval, 9 November 2026. Second qualified review: David Williams, MD, 9 November 2026, approved as written. no changes required. Review record
    Funding
    Funding was received for this work. The funder is not yet named in this record.
    Identifiers
    No DOI. Source appraised: FH-004, which keeps its own DOI.

  2. EA-002 Mental-health symptoms in elite kickboxers

    Type
    Selected-paper appraisal. Version 1.2, . First published .
    Author
    Casey C. Sears, Fight Medicine Research Institute, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. ORCID 0009-0000-6344-1143
    Program
    Not attached to a research program
    Review
    Editorial approval, 9 November 2026. Second qualified review: David Williams, MD, 9 November 2026, approved as written. no changes required. Review record
    Funding
    Funding was received for this work. The funder is not yet named in this record.
    Identifiers
    No DOI. Source appraised: FH-014, which keeps its own DOI.

  3. EA-003 Combat-sport concussion management

    Type
    Selected-paper appraisal. Version 1.2, . First published .
    Author
    Casey C. Sears, Fight Medicine Research Institute, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. ORCID 0009-0000-6344-1143
    Review
    Editorial approval, 9 November 2026. Second qualified review: David Williams, MD, 9 November 2026, approved as written. no changes required. Review record
    Funding
    Funding was received for this work. The funder is not yet named in this record.
    Identifiers
    No DOI. Source appraised: FH-029, which keeps its own DOI.

Method for all three: One published source, appraised under policy P-05. Figures and limitations were checked against the source’s full text. Participants: None. The work used published literature only, with no human participants and no participant data. Studies with participants are entered in the project register, which holds none.

What is listed here

This page lists work the Fight Medicine Research Institute designed, conducted, analysed, funded, commissioned or co-produced. The Research Library is separate: its 33 external studies belong to their own authors and journals, and the Fight Medicine Research Institute’s contribution to each is cataloguing, an original summary, bibliographic verification and citation maintenance.

Two library records are reports by Casey C. Sears, the Fight Medicine Research Institute’s Founder: CSX-003 and CSX-001. Their deposited author affiliation is the Alabama Athletic Commission. They are catalogued as related-party works with a disclosure, and are not Fight Medicine Research Institute outputs.

Affiliation

Work genuinely carried out at the Fight Medicine Research Institute uses this affiliation: Fight Medicine Research Institute, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Authors keep their other legitimate affiliations. Affiliations on existing works are preserved as published.

How Fight Medicine Research Institute research is published

  1. The project, investigator, contributors, protocol and required approvals are recorded.
  2. The research, source verification, analysis and reporting are completed and the supporting records kept.
  3. All four ICMJE authorship criteria are applied. Contributor roles, funding, data availability, AI assistance and disclosures are recorded.
  4. The Fight Medicine Research Institute records its permission to submit. The journal decides on review and publication under its own procedures.
  5. After publication the landing page, DOI deposit, affiliations, dates, licence and notices are verified.
  6. The output is added to this page and linked to its project and the Fight Medicine Research Institute’s contribution.

Fight Medicine Journal is one available venue. It is published by Sears Publishing Company and is a separate body from the Fight Medicine Research Institute. Because Fight Medicine Research Institute people hold positions at the journal, a manuscript from them is covered by the journal’s policy on submissions by editors and the publisher: an independent handling editor, open review, and publication of the reviewer reports and decision letter. The relationships are set out under Disclosed interests.

The rules are in the Operating Charter, O-07 and Publication Integrity and Research Conduct.