About the Journal

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Aims and scope

Archives of Physiotherapy  is the official journal of the Italian Society of Physiotherapy (Società Italiana di Fisioterapia, SIF).

Archives of Physiotherapy (AoP) is a Diamond open access journal disseminating research covering all aspects of physiotherapy. Featured topics include clinical trials across various disability domains (musculoskeletal, neurological, cardio-pulmonary), diagnostic studies,  measurement-focused research, observational studies, prognostic investigations, qualitative studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and case reports.In addition to research articles, the AoP board also invites expert and eminent authors to contribute to the Masterclass series

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Archives of Physiotherapy  adopts a double anonymized peer-review process, which means that reviewer identity is not made visible to author, author identity is not made visible to reviewer, reviewer and author identity is visible to Editor in Chief and Associate and Section Editors.Full details on the peer review process and editorial policies can be found here.

AoP publishes new articles as soon as they receive final approval from the authors and are assigned page numbers (online first, as customary now for scientific journals) and then collected in an issue, to guarantee rapid publication times and a timely content availability for its indexing databases. Authors retain the copyright of their article published in Archives of Physiotherapy are free to reproduce and disseminate their work. Full details can be found here.

Articles published by AoP are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Full information on the open access policy can be found here.

All of this journal content is archived in Portico, which provides permanent archiving for electronic scholarly journals.