JOURNAL e-ISSN: 2282-4324

JOINTS is the Official Journal of SIAGASCOT. It 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, and assisted by an excellent Advisory 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.

The topics covered within JOINTS 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

• Ortobiology

• Osteotomy

• Patellofemoral Joints

• Rehabilitation

• Shoulder

• Sport Medicine

Abstracting and indexing

CNKI

Google Scholar

EBSCO Discovery Service

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 (Grammarly®) to verify the authenticity of articles and detect duplications from each article’s content online against billions of web pages.

Fees of publications and instructions for submission are explained within the Instructions for Authors.

JOINTS considers for publication the following types of articles:

• Original Articles

• Brief Commentaries

• Narrative Reviews

• Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

• Case Reports (of particular entity and interest)

• Editorials

• Letters to the Editor

• Case/Photo Quizzes

•Clinical Trials

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.