The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal focused on developmental diversities, publishing around 20 articles annually. The journal emphasizes a quick and fair review process, with a rejection rate of about 40%, and allows authors to retain copyright under a Creative Commons license. Future goals include attracting more authors, enhancing visibility, and achieving indexing in major databases.

1. Journal of Health and Rehabilitation
Sciences -
10 months achievements
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trajkovski
Editor-in-Chief
Maribor, 26.05.2023 1

2. First two issues
https://jhrs.almamater.si
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3. Main scope (1)
 Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a
multidisciplinary, scholarly, peer reviewed, international,
electronic journal edited by the Alma Mater Europaea-ECM
from Slovenia and Macedonian Scientific Society for Autism
as co-publisher.
 The aim of the journal is to share and disseminate
knowledge between all disciplines that work in the field of
developmental diversities.
 All articles will be critically reviewed by at least two unknown
reviewers within 2 months, but longer delays are sometimes
unavoidable.
 All manuscripts must comply with Authors Instructions.
 There should be around 20 articles published per year. 3

4. Main scope (2)
• JHRS allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and
permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the
articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based
repository.
• The subject matter is broad and includes, but is not
restricted to, findings from health, psychological, biological,
educational, genetic, medical, psychiatric, and sociological
studies, ethical, philosophical, and legal contributions that
increase knowledge on the prevention and treatment of
disability, and/or inform public policy and practice.
• eISSN 2820-5480
• Established August 1st 2022, Biannually, with tendency 3
times per year 4

5. Type of papers in JHRS
The following articles will be considered for publication:
 original and review articles,
 short report,
 letters to the editor,
 clinical experiences, survey of cases,
 doctoral dissertations,
 master of arts,
 editorials,
 rapid communications
 book reviews.
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6. Review Process
• Editor plus at least 2 Reviewers;
• Review process is double blinded;
• Receipt to first decision is < 1 month;
• Typical lag time from acceptance to publication is 1 to 3
months
• Unbiased, independent, critical assessment is an intrinsic
part of all scholarly work, including scientific investigation.
• Peer reviewers are experts in their field and thus are an
important extension of the scientific process. 6

7. Indexing and Abstracting
• AccessON
• Bielefeld Academic Search
Engine
• COBISS.SI
• CORE
• Crossref
• Dimensions
• EBSCO
• Geneva Foundation for
Medical Education and
Research
• Google Scholar
• Harvard Libraries -
University of California
Libraries
• HINARI
• JISC
• LENS
• OpenAIRE
• OUCI
• ROAD
• Semantic Scholar
• Worldcat
• ZENODO
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JHRS in Kobson

9. Copyright and licensing
• Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant
to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article,
to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to
distribute it in all forms and media. Articles will be distributed
under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY 4.0) licence.
• Authors can enter the separate, additional contractual
arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the published
paper (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it
in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication
in this journal.
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10. Editorial Board (1)
• Vladimir Trajkovski, MD, PhD – Editor-in-chief (Macedonia)
• Sebastjan Kristovič, PhD – (Slovenia)
• John Wells, PhD – (Ireland)
• Manuel Casanova, MD, PhD – (USA)
• Paola Molteni, PhD – (Italy)
• Kneginja Richter, PhD – (Germany)
• Branislav Brojchin, PhD, – (Serbia)
• Matthew P. Janicki, PhD – (USA)
• Dobrinka Georgieva, PhD – (Bulgaria)
• Matthias Grünke, PhD – (Germany)
• Mohammad Ghaziuddin, MD, PhD – (USA)
• Luis Anunciação, PhD, – (Brazil)
• Jane McCarthy, MD, PhD – (UK)
• Roy Brown, PhD, – (Canada)
• Marvin Natowicz, MD, PhD – (USA)
• Robert F. Orlikoff, PhD – (USA)
• Ana Leko Krhen, PhD – (Croatia)
• Sangeetha Mahesh, PhD (India)
• Gregory J. Spray, PhD – (USA)
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11. Editorial Board (2)
• Trevor Parmenter, PhD – (Australia)
• Mehmet Tevfik Dorak, MD, PhD – (UK)
• Joanna Kossewska, PhD – (Poland)
• Monica Reichenberg, PhD – (Sweden)
• Haris Memisevic, PhD – (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Rea Fulgosi Masnjak, Ph.D – (Croatia)
• Dmitry Butko, MD, PhD – (Russia)
• Yasir Ahmed Syed, PhD – (UK)
• Nancy Jokinen, MSW, PhD – (Canada)
• Blake D. Hansen, PhD, BCBA – (USA)
• Ingrida Baranauskienė – (Lithuania)
• Ljubinka Damjanovska Krstikj, MD, PhD – (Macedonia)
• Ruth Moyse, PhD – (UK)
• Nidhi Verma, PhD – (India)
• Marwa Saleh, MD. PhD – (Egypt)
• Judit Gombás, PhD – (Hungary)
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12. Rejection rate
About 40%
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13. Why to Publish in JHRS? (1)
 Editorial board has great experience in publishing;
 Rapid publication;
 Rapid availability of your document world-wide;
 Studies show, that Open-Access papers are cited more than
printed articles;
 Fast and professional peer review. JHRS is run by a team of
experienced editors who have previously worked in
publishing. The professional editors work closely with
academic editors and peer reviewers to provide authors with
an efficient, fair, and constructive review process;
 Quick review: The review decision will be made within two
months from the date of submission.
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14. Why to Publish in JHRS? (2)
• Indexing of your document which can be easily found in library
catalogs, OAI archives and search engines on the net.
• Not for profit journal;
• Liberality in terms of language: The journal will not reject a paper
merely based on the language. The authors will be guided to
improve the manuscript in such case.
• We have no page charges or submission fees, and you have free
use of color figures.
• Our mission is to advance excellence in the social sciences and
humanities, and our status as a scholarly publisher allows us to
focus on making that a reality. We re-invest all surplus back into
the global scientific community, providing ongoing support for
authors, researchers, and educators in every field of health and
rehabilitation sciences, psychology, and related disciplines. 14

15. Open Access Policy
• Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences applies
the Creative Commons Attribution License to works we
publish, because we believe that there should be no
financial barriers to access to information that can benefit
medical practice.
• We also believe that authors should retain copyright to the
article they have worked so hard to produce. This Creative
Commons license means that anyone is able to freely copy,
download, reprint, reuse, distribute, display or perform the
work we publish.
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16. ORCID
• JHRS asks that all authors submitting a paper register an
account with Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID).
• ORCID identifiers for all authors and co-authors should be
added to the author data upon submission and will be
published alongside the submitted paper, should it be
accepted.
• ORCID registration provides a unique and persistent digital
identifier for the account that enables accurate attribution
and improves the discoverability of published papers,
ensuring that the correct author receives the correct credit
for their work. 16

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18. Page visits
18.05.2023
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FAIR assessment
https://www.f-uji.net

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How to submit article (1)

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How to submit article (2)

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JHRS on Google Scholar

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JHRS on Facebook

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JHRS on Twitter

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JHRS Blog

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JHRS on LinkedIn

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JHRS on Instagram

28. Conclusions
• Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a
multidisciplinary peer reviewed, international, electronic
journal.
• JHRS allows free access оpen access to its contents and
permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the
articles on any OAI-compliant institutional/subject-based
repository.
• We are using diamond open access model.
• JHRS is measuring the journal statistics because it is a very
good way to advertising the journal.
• Preparing open access scholarly journal in small countries
is a very difficult job and time consuming. 28

29. Next steps
• To educate and encourage young researchers to publish in
JHRS.
• To attract qualitative international authors to publish in
JHRS.
• To increase the visibility of the journal for the international
scientific public.
• To recruit more authors from Slovenia.
• Better advertisement of JHRS.
• To try to publish 3 issues per year.
• Indexing in DOAJ, SCOPUS, etc.
• Increasing the citation of papers. 29

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31. Aknowledgments
• Blagoja Janevski, Uroš Kugl, MSc. (IT admininstration)
• Andrea Ivanovska, JHRS editorial assistant
• Angela Winstanley and Angela Capper (proofreading)
• Editorial board members
• All authors
• All reviewers 31

32. Contact Editor
+389-2-3116-520 (234)
+389-2-3118-143
editorjhrs@almamater.si
https://jhrs.almamater.si
Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
@journaljhrs
https://www.linkedin.com/Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
@journaljhrs
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