Aims and Scope
JOURNAL e-ISSN: 2282-4324
JOINTS is the Official Journal of the Italian Society of Arthroscopy, Knee, Upper Limb, Sports, Cartilage, and Orthopaedic Technologies (SIAGASCOT).
JOINTS is an international, peer-reviewed journal that aims to become a valid scientific instrument for all professionals involved in joint surgery and sports medicine to improve their skills and update their scientific knowledge.
The journal is supported by a distinguished international Editorial Board in order to ensure the highest standard of scientific quality.
The mission of JOINTS is to promote education, innovation, and communication in the national and international community of orthopedics and other professionals who work in the field.
The journal publishes papers about the latest developments in knee surgery, arthroscopy, sports traumatology, cartilage, orthopedic technology, upper limbs, and related rehabilitation.
All manuscripts submitted to JOINTS undergo a rigorous single-blind peer review process, managed by the Editorial Board and independent expert reviewers. All published materials are fully open access, freely available online immediately upon publication.
The topics covered within the journal include all aspects of joint disorders and related treatments, including epidemiology, clinical and instrumental diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The main topics are:
• Ankle
• Current Concepts
• Elbow
• Guidelines and surveys
• Hip
• Knee
• New Technologies
• Orthobiology
• Osteotomy
• Patellofemoral Joints
• Rehabilitation
• Shoulder
• Sport Medicine
If authors are unsure whether their manuscript falls within the scope of JOINTS, they should contact the Journal by e-mail (submission.joints@verduci.it) for an opinion before submission.
Abstracting and indexing
Publication frequency
Rather than publishing conventional complete online issues at fixed intervals, JOINTS has moved to a continuous publication model, with articles being published on an ongoing basis. Articles are posted online as soon as they have completed the production process in a fully citable form associated with a universal digital object identifier (DOI).
The full text of the published articles is available in HTML and pdf format on the Homepage.
Our Journal uses certified plagiarism checker software (iThenticate® and Grammarly®) to verify the authenticity of articles and detect duplications from each article’s content online against billions of web pages.
Fees for publications and instructions for submission are explained within the Instructions for Authors.