About Scoliosis

What is Scoliosis?

Scoliosis, the official journal of the Society on Spinal Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT), is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of research on prevention, control, conservative and surgical treatment of scoliosis and other spinal deformities.

Scoliosis aims to provide an integrated and balanced view of diagnostic, research, and treatment procedures to enhance effective collaboration among specialists in this rapidly growing field world-wide.

Content overview

Scoliosis considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
• Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction.

Peer review policies

Papers submitted to the Journal will be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief, who will send out the papers for peer review to three editorial team members. The editorial team as well as the Editorial board should consist of members of the SOSORT, an interdisciplinary society with orthotists, physiotherapists, basic scientists and orthopaedic surgeons, psychologists as well as rehabilitation specialists working in this field.

Edited by Hans-Rudolf Weiss, Scoliosis is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Scoliosis

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central and Scopus.

Articles in Scoliosis should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Scoliosis 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Scoliosis does not have issue numbers either. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Scoliosis using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Scoliosis is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Scoliosis however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Scoliosis's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Institute for Scientific Information to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Scoliosis will be available.

Scoliosis is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.

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