The European Journal of Physiotherapy had a focus on physiotherapy in lifestyle-related health problems, functioning, activity and participation, behavioural medicine in physiotherapy, disability and health in pain area, as well as physical activity in health promotion and rehabilitation. The journal has an interdisciplinary approach in order to reflect collaboration with practitioners and scholars from different disciplines. The EJPT addresses international researchers in physiotherapy as well as from disciplines such as economics, sociology and psychology.
We have broadened the acceptance of the type of studies to be encouraged for submission now including Original articles either as full-length report or as Short communications reporting preliminary data from original work, Case reports reporting new and important clinical observations or experiences of a novel treatment, all types of Review articles, Focus papers, Debate articles, and Short commentaries for the EJPT relevant topics, as well as Letters to the editor.
We have during the past two years incorporated compulsory registration and use of guidelines for reporting interventions. In order to be published, all clinical trials must have since January 2015 been registered in a public repository at the beginning of the research process (prior to patient enrolment). For a list of registries that meet the requirements, please visit the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). Also, the TIDieR statement for reporting interventions in any evaluative study is going to be incorporated into manuscript processing workflow from January 2017. Submitting authors are encouraged to use the TIDieR checklist to ensure that any interventions described in their manuscript are fully reported. A copy of the checklist is available at: http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/tidier/
Further, we have recently been chosen to be a publishing partner for World Congress in Physiotherapy in Cape Town (WCPT) 2017 http://www.wcpt.org/congress. This implies that EJPT is going to discuss with 30 researchers about their conference abstracts being published in a somewhat lengthened form. The chosen abstracts will be reviewed by our editorial board before publishing.
The last good news for the year 2016 is that the EJPT is now also indexed/abstracted in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). The ESCI is an important lead towards getting an impact factor. The ESCI indexing improved the EPJT’s visibility and is a mark of quality. ESCI is one of the Thomson Reuter’s services.