Aims & Scope

Aims

Rheumato (ISSN 2674-0621) is a peer-reviewed, international scientific, open access journal, striving to publish high-quality articles in the field of all aspects of rheumatology research and make them freely available to researchers worldwide. It focuses on publishing original research articles, reviews, communications, and case reports, but other article types will also be accepted. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental and/or methodological details must be provided for research articles.

Scope

• The premises inherent to rheumatology
• The history of rheumatology and its principals
• The character of diseases affecting bones and joints
• The character of immunologic/autoimmune diseases
• The character of the rare and multisystem diseases
• Pattern recognition aspects of differential diagnosis
• Patterns of disease as population phenomena
• Technical aspects of utilizable diagnostic modalities
• Critical analysis of therapeutic interventions and their pros and cons
• Technical aspects of utilizable therapeutic modalities
• Archeological/zoological/paleontological evidence of/correlates with disease
• Pro and con opinion pieces
• Statistical methodology and its premises for rheumatologists

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

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Rheumato 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:

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