About the Journal

ISSN 2029-3194

eISSN 2538-8673

Focus and scope. Reabilitacijos mokslai: slauga, kineziterapija, ergoterapija (Eng. Rehabilitation Sciences: Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy) is a twice a year published, peer-reviewed Open Access journal which publishes original papers on the latest empirical and theoretical research conducted either at the national or international level dealing with various aspects of Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Occupational Therapy as well as injury and disease prevention. Particular attention will be provided to those original papers with clinical rebound in the Rehabilitation field.

All papers submitted to the journal should contain original research not previously published (except preliminary reports or conference thesis). The material published in the journal should be new, true to fact and precise.

Languages. The journal publishes articles in Lithuanian and English languages with comprehensive resumes in both languages.

Peer-review. The journal uses double-blind peer review (neither the authors nor the reviewers know the identity of each other) to avoid bias.

Journal policy. The journal provides its policy, which include detailed information about submission, editorial and publishing processes, and guidelines for authors and reviewers. All parties are introduced with their rights and responsibilities to ensure smooth and ethical publishing process.

Fees and Charges. The journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs) and submission charges. 

Open Access policy. The journal is an open access journal. All content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission of the publisher or the author. Articles published in the journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published paper’s title, journal citation, and DOI.

Copyright. The authors agree to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) agreement under which the paper in the Journal is licensed, and grants Lithuanian Sports University permission to publish the unpublished and original manuscript and all associated supplemental material. An author keeps all copyright rights.

Indexed in Central and Eastern European Academic Source (EBSCO), CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCO), DOAJ, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus (ICV 2023: 83.64), Scopus (2023 CiteScore 0,1; SNIP 0,055).

History. The journal Reabilitacijos mokslai: slauga, kineziterapija, ergoterapija (Eng. Rehabilitation Sciences: Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy) ISSN 2029-3194, eISSN 2538-8673 has been published since 2009 (the former title – Kineziterapija (Eng. Physiotherapy) ISSN 1392-8414, published since 1999). From 2015 to 2023, the journal was published in collaboration with Klaipėda University (KU).