Editorial Note: Journal of Physiotherapy and Physical Rehabilitation

Kamil Wegrecki^*
*Correspondence: Kamil Wegrecki, School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Sydney , Australia,, Australia, Email:

Editorial Note

Journal of Physiotherapy and Physical Rehabilitation (JPPR) has successfully completed 4 years of successful Journey and is all set for the running year. It provides quarterly publication of articles in all the areas related to Addiction Rehabilitation, Alternative medicine, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Clinical Reflexology, Exercise, Hemipelvectomy, Multiple Sclerosis, Musculoskeletal Pain, and Myofascial Pain including all current researches. We are highly glad to mention that during the year 2019, all issues (4 issues) of Volume 4 were published online within the given time frame and print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online. Journal impact factor of 2019 was approximately calculated by dividing the number of articles published in 2017 and 2018 with the number of times they are cited in the Google Scholar citation database. The current NLM ID is 101695557. During the calendar year 2019, JPPR received so many papers including the original research, short communication, reviews, short commentaries, image articles etc out of which some articles (50%) were rejected in the preliminary screening due to plagiarism or being out of the format. These articles aim at describing new insights and advancements in rapid developments. During 2019 articles were subjected to the peer-review process and almost all were accepted. Several research scholars from around the globe reviewed article and have participated in the peer review process.

Moreover, we will be releasing special issue for the year 2020 to publish the most exciting research in reference to the Physiotherapy and Physical Rehabilitation which will include the latest trending ongoing research especially based on the COVID-19 that the world is facing right now and will keep promoting the researches based on the Physiotherapy and Physical Rehabilitation. Once accepted and done with the peer review process, it will be published. After that, it will be freely available online for reading, downloading and printing. The special issue aims at exploring topics related to the preventive measures towards COVID-19 and related topics. We are one of the most renowned publishers with most of its journals indexed in the esteemed databases like Google Scholar, Scopus and listed in the PubMed. According to the statistics, it shows that open Access publishing is generating 1.4 million articles annually; the esteemed rate of this annual growth of open access model is around 3% to 3.5% every year. The increasing trust of academicians is rising consistently at the rate of 3% each year. The journal uses most wide platforms for social media and Market advertising which includes Twitter, Linked In and Google as requisite activity to reach the goal like Awareness, consideration, development, conversions, also regarding invitations for the new articles and contacting authors which is pretty straightforward. Journals also promote a specific hashtags to drive awareness.

I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Doctor Kamil Wegrecki during the final editing of the articles published and the support rendered by the editorial assistant and in bringing out the issues on time. I would like to express my gratitude to all the authors, reviewers and publishers all over the world, the advisory and the editorial board of JPPR, secretariat for their support in bringing out yet another volume of JPPR and look forward to their unrelenting support to bring out the Volume 4 of JPPR in scheduled time. The major contribution is dedicated to all the research scholars who have been working dedicatedly to uplift the scientific community and upgrade the level of the research standards by each passing day.