Journal History
The Rheumatology Quarterly is a double-blind, peer-reviewed periodical journal that started to be published in 2022.
Title: The Rheumatology Quarterly
Journal abbreviation: Rheumatol Q
E-ISSN: 2980-1559
Copyright & Open Access Policy
After the publication decision is made and accepted, the Copyright Agreement Form should be attached to the submissions. The form can also be downloaded from the journal's article submission system. The Copyright Agreement Form must be signed by all contributing authors and a scanned version of this wet-signed document must be submitted.
The Rheumatology Quarterly is an open-access publication, and the journal’s publication model is based on Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) Declaration. All published content is available online, free of charge at https://qrheumatol.com.
The journal’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License, which permits third parties to share and adapt the content for non-commercial purposes by giving the appropriate credit to the original work.
The copyright of the published article belongs to its author under CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
The authors agree to transfer the commercial rights to the Galenos Publishing House, if the article is accepted for publication.
Abstracting and Indexing
The Rheumatology Quarterly is indexed in the following databases:
Free-of-Charge Publication
No fee is charged from the authors during the submission, evaluation and publication process. Journal practices, ethical rules, technical information and necessary forms are specified on the journal's web page.
The manuscripts must be submitted via the Journal Agent online article system represented on the journal website.
Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy
Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that ensure the retrieval and distribution of information now available in digital formats to guarantee long-term, perpetual access. The preservation policy includes the following measures:
All of the electronic content (website, manuscript, etc.) is stored in three different sources. Content on a server is online and accessible to readers. A copy of the same content is preserved as a backup on two other sources. Should a server fail, other resources can be brought online, and the website is expected to be available in 24-36 hours.
Our journal's Abstracting/Indexing services store essential information about articles. In addition, some of our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services archive metadata about the article and electronic versions of the articles. In this way, copies of articles are presented to the scientific community through these systems as an alternative to journals.