Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology (formerly RAED Journal), the official organ of Turkish Society for Rheumatology, an open access, scientific, peer-reviewed journal in accordance with independent, unbiased, and double-blinded peer-review principles published quarterly in Turkish or English. The journal is published tri-annually in March, July and November electronically.

The aim of the journal is to publish articles of the highest scientific and clinical value on current topics in medicine for academics and expert physicians working in fields related to rheumatology. The journal publishes original articles, reviews, case reports, and letters to the editor within the field of rheumatology. Also, abstracts or full texts of scientific meetings in rheumatology can be published as supplements of the journal.

Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology is currently indexed in EBSCO, Gale, DOAJ, Türk Medline, Embase, J-Gate and Tübitak Ulakbim TR Index.

The editorial and publication process of the Journal of the Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology are shaped in accordance with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The journal is in conformity with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Author(s) and copyright owner(s) grant access to all users for the articles published in the Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology as free of charge. Articles may be used provided that they are cited.

Open Access Policy is based on rules of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/ By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology does not demand any subscription fee, publication fee or similar payment for access to electronic resources.

Creative Commons

A Creative Commons license is a public copyright license that provides free distribution of copyrighted works or studies. Authors use the CC license to transfer the right to use, share or modify their work to third parties. This journal is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) which permits third parties to to share the material without any modifications for only non-commercial purposes by giving the appropriate credit to the original work.. Written permission from the publisher is required for commercial use of the content.

Advertisement Policy

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Material Disclaimer

Statements or opinions stated in articles published in the journal do not reflect the views of the editors, editorial board and/or publisher; The editors, editorial board and publisher do not accept any responsibility or liability for such materials. All opinions published in the journal belong to the authors.

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