About the Journal

The mission of Argentinian Journal of Respiratory & Physical Therapy (AJRPT), as a means for disseminating scientific research on respiratory and physical therapy, is to promote the continuing professional development of respiratory and physical therapists and other health professionals worldwide. AJRPT is an independent, non-profit publication by the "Asociación Civil Científica de Difusión y Promoción de la Kinesiología" (I.G.J. 1968240, File no. 9245026, Regulation no. 722) and supported by the following Physycal Therapy Associations: Asociación Argentina de Kinesiología (AAK), Colegio de Kinesiólogos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (COKIBA), Colegio de Kinesiólogos de La Pampa (COKILPA), Colegio de Kinesiólogos y Fisioterapeutas de Catamarca, Colegio de Kinesiólogos de La Pampa (COKILPA), Colegio de Kinesiólogos, Fisioterapeutas y Terapistas Físicos de Santa Fé, Círculo de Kinesiólogos y Fisioterapeutas de Mendoza (CKFM), Círculo de Kinesiólogos de Neuquén (CKN), Asociación de Kinesiólogos de Tierra del Fuego (AKTDF), Universidad de Flores (UFLO), and Asociación de Kinesiología del Deporte (AKD).

AJRPT is published on a four-month basis in March, July, and November.

Each journal issue presents research articles in the field of respiratory and physical therapy, including clinical trials —basic or applied—, on the evaluation, prevention, and treatment of respiratory and motor disorders.

AJRPT does not charge authors any submission or publication fees and provides open access to all its content. Access to its content is free and open. The average time between receiving a contribution and its publication is between 8 and 10 weeks. The journal accepts contributions in English and Spanish language.

AJRPT is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), Latindex Catalog 2.0, Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CONICET), SciELO (Argentina), LILACS, Redalyc, EBSCO Information Services, DIALNET and REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico).

SOURCE OF INCOME AND ADVERTISING ↑

AJRPT is a scientific journal funded by subscribers to the journal and also by the Asociación Argentina de Kinesiología (AAK), Colegio de Kinesiólogos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (COKIBA), Colegio de Kinesiólogos de La Pampa (COKILPA), Colegio de Kinesiólogos y Fisioterapeutas de Catamarca, Colegio de Kinesiólogos de La Pampa (COKILPA), Colegio de Kinesiólogos, Fisioterapeutas y Terapistas Físicos de Santa Fé, Círculo de Kinesiólogos y Fisioterapeutas de Mendoza (CKFM), Círculo de Kinesiólogos de Neuquén (CKN), Asociación de Kinesiólogos de Tierra del Fuego (AKTDF), Universidad de Flores (UFLO), and Asociación de Kinesiología del Deporte (AKD).
AJRPT accepts advertising on its website and this is also part of the funding necessary for the operation of the journal.

ACCEPTANCE RATE ↑
AJRPT has an acceptance rate of 85%.

EDITORIAL POLICY↑

Open access policy

Free of charge or restrictions	Access to the contents published in AJRPT is open, free of charge or restrictions, in full text, and without any embargo period.
Article processing charges (APC)	AJRPT does not charge for article processing. Peer-review, editing, and distribution costs are borne by the journal.
Copyright policies	The journal does not retain copyright. Authors are permitted to publish their study again and are only required to mention the original source of publication.
Self-archiving policies	All versions of the article (submitted version, accepted version and published version) can be deposited in institutional repositories, blogs, or any other electronic media, without embargo periods. AJRPT encourages self-archiving.
Creative Commons License	This work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It allows you to share and adapt the material provided appropriate credit to the author and source is given and provided your research is distributed under the same license as the original.
OAI-PMH interoperability	AJRPT has the URL https://revista.ajrpt.com/index.php/Main/oai?verb=Identify where it is possible to transmit metadata via OAI-PMH in Dublin Core format. In turn, you can validate the operation of this protocol by placing the address mentioned in the following validator: https://validator.oaipmh.com/

AJRPT adopts an open access policy since it considers that both scientific publications and publicly-funded research should be freely available on the Internet, free of charge or restrictions. As an open-access journal, all its content is freely available without any embargo period.

Authors are solely responsible for the content and opinions stated in their published articles.

AJRPT accepts third-party advertising (advertisers) on its website, which may include posters or banners, badges, and contextual advertising.
Decision-making and editorial content will be kept separate from advertising content, without compromising the implementation of good ethical practices

Digital preservation policy

The journal uses the Open Journal System (OJS), which is compatible with the LOCKSS (Lots of Coples Keep Stuff Safe) system that guarantees the journal permanent and secure archives.
You can consult the journal's LOCKSS publication manifest here. Deposit to it is through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which deposits content using the LOCKSS Program, which offers decentralized and distributed preservation. This allows journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) the ability to be preserved for long-term access.
Additionally, our identifier policy allows all metadata to be backed up in Crossref, as you can see in this link.

Persistent identifier policy

All articles and issues published by AJRPT have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) that guarantees permanent access to the articles, thanks to the registration, tracking and constant monitoring of metadata. Each DOI identifier is generated by Crossref through the OJS (Open Journal Systems) manager. To ensure its functionality, the DOI is always displayed as a complete URL link, both in the presentation of articles and issues of the journal, as well as in the corresponding galleys.

AJRPT also actively participates by depositing references in Crossref through the Cited-By program.

At AJRPT we also use ORCID iD, which will be mandatory from 2023 for author registration. This is a persistent identifier that distinguishes authors from other researchers, facilitates recognition of their contributions and reduces the possibility of error in their registration. This identifier is requested by the authors themselves through the website of ORCID, a global non-profit organization that promotes the transparent exchange of information.

PUBLICATION CRITERIA / INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS ↑

Submissions of original and unpublished manuscripts

What is original research?

A research study is not original if it has not been written by those who are listed as authors. This could constitute plagiarism, a practice firmly rejected by the scientific community, or fall within the category of fraud. Fraudulent articles are those that include fictional data, have evidence of ghost or guest authorship, or have been automatically created by programs used specifically for that end.

In all cases, the term original refers to the bond between the authors and the study they state to be theirs and is therefore closely connected with the authorship criteria.

What is unpublished research?

Unpublished means that your research study has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, including digital publishing (manuscripts published, in full text, in institutional repositories: websites for congresses, conferences, symposia, among others).

Duplications

Based on the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Overlapping Publications, AJRPT will not accept duplicate manuscripts on these two grounds:

Two or more journals may unnecessarily and unknowingly undertake the work of peer review, edit the same manuscript, and publish the same article.
Duplication can result in inadvertent double-counting of data or inappropriate weighting of the results of a single study, which distorts the available evidence.

In case duplication is detected during peer-review or after acceptance, the journal will follow the steps proposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for both instances (duplication detected during peer-review and duplication detected after acceptance).

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Derived Articles

In the case of derived articles from the same research project, they will not be considered as "duplicate publication" as long as the stated objectives are different. In other words, these article must address aspects that were not covered in previous publications derived from the same project.

In situations where there are derivative paper from the same research project that are already published or under review in other journals, it is necessary to mention these articles in the "Declaration of Ethical Aspects and Conflict of Interest," requested at the initial submission stage (Download the template). In this declaration, it is essential to clearly describe the differences between those articles and the article submitted for evaluation.

Plagiarism detection

According to the policy of the journal, manuscripts must be original (drafted by the individuals who are listed as authors) and unpublished (not previously published in printed or digital format). To ensure academic integrity and prevent plagiarism, the journal implements a set of strategies to avoid plagiarism in publications as recommended by the COPE guidelines.

Authors are required to refrain from committing plagiarism, which is defined as the appropriation of texts from other authors without their consent and without properly citing the source, even in cases where explicit permission has been obtained from the original authors. Additionally, authors are expected to avoid the inclusion of substantial parts of their own previously published works in the submitted texts, ensuring that there is no more than a 20% overlap between a previous text and the proposed work.

The plagiarism check process is carried out during peer review. The journal's editors use an anti-plagiarism software tool (iThenticate) to analyze each article. If similarities exceeding 20% are detected, the article undergoes a thorough evaluation. The report generated by iThenticate is reviewed by the editors, who contact the authors to inform them about the percentage of plagiarism if it is deemed unacceptable. After this control process, the editors send a report to the author, which may result in the definitive rejection of the article or, alternatively, provide an opportunity to rewrite the work, properly citing the sources of the identified plagiarized texts. Please refer to the steps proposed by COPE in case a possible plagiarism is detected during the review process in the following link.

PEER-REVIEW PROCESS ↑

The evaluation process is carried out under the protection of confidentiality, for which both the reviewers and the authors are unaware of their respective identities (double blind).

Based on the opinions issued by external reviewers, the articles may be accepted for publication, rejected, or their publication is subject to compliance by the authors with the modifications requested by the reviewers.

The Editorial Committee of the journal will inform the author within a period of 30 days whether the manuscript has been rejected for evaluation by external reviewers.

In case modifications are requested, authors must rework their papers and submit them within the indicated deadline (21 days) to be re-evaluated. Each evaluation will have two double-blind evaluations, using an average time of 30 days.
In case of controversy between the opinions, the editorial committee will resolve the decision based on the arguments given by the evaluators and the possibility of resorting to a third evaluation. Those articles that do not comply with the editorial guidelines of the journal will not be accepted for evaluation.

The average time used for the scientific evaluation of the works is 9 months (7 months reception-acceptance and 2 months acceptance-publication).

For greater clarity, the editorial process of our journal is schematically outlined in the following image:

For any further guidance, the reader should know that AJRPT takes COPE's guidelines as a reference in this regard.

CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICES ↑

AJRPT adheres to the code of conduct and best practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to ensure the quality of the articles published and properly address the needs of both readers and authors.

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PRIVACY STATEMENT ↑

Names, e-mail addresses, and any other personal details submitted to the Argentinian Journal of Respiratory & Physical Therapy will be exclusively used for the purposes stated in this journal and will not be available to external readers or for any other purposes.

JOURNAL SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT↑

Argentinian Journal of Respiratory & Physical Therapy (AJRPT) uses Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.15, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.

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