Aims & Scope

Aims

Rare Diseases and Therapeutics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on all aspects of rare diseases and orphan diseases. We welcome preclinical and clinical research, either positive or negative. The journal also considers articles on public health issues in the field of rare diseases. The journal publishes article types including research papers, reviews, communications, etc. We aim to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. 

Scope

This journal covers all topics related to rare diseases, including molecular biology, genetics and genomics, clinical diagnosis, prevention and treatment, epidemiology, public health, and health policy. Rare diseases and orphan diseases across (but not limited to) the following fields are welcome:

• Oncology;
• Genetics;
• Neurology;
• Immunology;
• Infectious Diseases;
• Endocrinology and Metabolism;
• Hematology;
• Organ System-Related Diseases: Digestive Disorders, Cardiovascular Diseases, Renal Disorders, Bone Diseases, Dermatological Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, and Eye Diseases.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in RDT will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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