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Saturday, December 20, 2025

The latest issue (Vol.4, No.2, 2025) has been published

Dear Colleagues and Readers,

We are pleased to announce that Volume 4, Issue 2 of the Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) has been published online today, December 20, 2025. This issue comprises a total of seven peer-reviewed articles. The forthcoming issue, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2026), is scheduled for publication by June 30, 2026.
 
Access to JHRS

The current issue and all published articles are available online via the journal platform. Readers, researchers, and students may access full-text PDF, HTML and XML versions of all articles without restriction. Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is an open-access, international, peer-reviewed, and non-profit journal, ensuring free and unlimited access to its scholarly content.
Citation of Articles and Use of DOI

When citing articles published in JHRS, authors are strongly encouraged to include the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) alongside standard bibliographic information. The DOI represents an international standard for persistent identification of digital content and ensures long-term accessibility, even if the article’s web location changes. Accordingly, the DOI should be used preferentially over direct URLs when referencing JHRS articles.
Online Features for Authors

By registering on the JHRS online submission system
(https://jhrs.almamater.si/index.php/jhrs/user/register), authors gain continuous access to information related to manuscript submission, review processes, and publication updates. We encourage authors and readers to disseminate JHRS publications within their academic networks and through social media platforms, thereby enhancing the visibility and impact of published research.

We warmly invite you to explore the content of Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and to consider JHRS as a venue for disseminating your scholarly work.

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for Volume 5, Issue 1 is open until January 31, 2026.
Suggested thematic areas include:
  • Rehabilitation Research
  • Health Research
  • Special Education Research
  • Psychological Research
  • Neuropsychological Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Disability Research
  • Medical Aspects of Disability
  • Social Aspects of Disability
  • Master’s and Doctoral (PhD) Theses in the Field
  • Book Reviews relevant to the scope of the journal
If you have any questions or you face problems with paper submission, please feel free to contact us: editorjhrs@almamater.si. We look forward to your valuable contributions and continued engagement with JHRS.

With kind regards,
Editorial Team
Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences



Tuesday, June 10, 2025

JHRS has been indexed in Scopus

 Dear Authors, Reviewers, and Editorial Board Members,

It is with great pleasure that I inform you that the Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences has been officially indexed in Scopus as of today, June 10, 2025.

What is Scopus?

Scopus is a leading abstract and citation database managed by Elsevier, providing access to peer-reviewed research articles, conference papers, books, and patents across multiple disciplines, including life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences.

Key Features of Scopus:

  • Extensive Coverage: Indexes over 100 million records, including 25.2 million open-access documents.
  • Citation Tracking: Enables researchers to analyze citations, track academic impact, and identify influential studies.
  • Author Profiles: Supports scholars in showcasing their work and connecting with collaborators.
  • Journal Metrics: Uses indicators such as CiteScore, SJR (SCImago Journal Rank), and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) to assess journal quality.
  • Patent Search: Includes patents from major offices such as USPTO, EPO, JPO, WIPO, and UKIPO.

    Scopus is widely used for academic research, institutional benchmarking, and strategic decision-making in scholarly publishing.

    I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to our publisher, Alma Mater Europaea University in Maribor, Slovenia, for their tremendous support in this achievement. A special thanks also goes to our authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and proofreaders, all of whom have contributed immensely over the past two years and ten months. This milestone marks a significant step forward on our pathway to future successes.

    If you are working in health, medical, or rehabilitation sciences, we warmly invite you to submit your article via the following link: Submit Here.

    Thank you for your cooperation and support.

    Best regards,
    JHRS Editor-in-Chief



Wednesday, August 2, 2023

JHRS indexed in ScienceOpen

Dear readers,

With great pleasure I want to inform you that Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is indexed in ScienceOpen.

What is ScienceOpen?

ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. We provide context building services for publishers, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before. Our advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features make ScienceOpen the only research platform you’ll ever need.

In this occasion I would like to thank to the staff of ScienceOpen.com, especially to Nina and Stuart for their efforts and unselfish support to our journal.
Cheers,
JHRS Editor-in-chief



Sunday, July 2, 2023

Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences - promo

Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a multidisciplinary, peer reviewed, scholarly, international, electronic journal edited by the Alma Mater Europaea University - ECM from Slovenia and Macedonian Scientific Society for Autism from Macedonia.
This journal will fill the gap, inspire scientists to exchange knowledge and experience and contribute to the development of science and the profession, due to the increase in scientific connection. With this we will increase the awareness about health care, rehabilitation processes especially for people with disabilities. Our interest is to create a journal at the highest scientific level, which is why we look forward to the cooperation of research and academic institutions in these areas.

It is established on August 1st 2022, biannually journal, with tendency for publishing issues 3 times per year.
The aim of the journal is to share and disseminate knowledge between all disciplines that work in the field of developmental diversities.

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 and other contributions from all the fields of health sciences, rehabilitation sciences, developmental diversities, special education, psychology, social policy, and the related sciences. 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 will be around 20 articles published per year. 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. Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is devoted to the scientific study of health disturbances and rehabilitation. 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.

Peer review process is unbiased, independent, critical assessment is an intrinsic part of all scholarly work, including scientific investigation. Peer reviewers are experts in their field who are not part of the editorial staff and thus are an important extension of the scientific process. Manuscripts will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Peer reviewers are asked to submit their review within two (2) weeks. All randomized controlled trials will be fast-tracked through the peer-review and editorial process and we will endeavor to publish accepted trials within 2 weeks of final acceptance.

Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is an open access journal. All its content is available free of charge. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, as well as to establish HTML links to them, without having to seek the consent of the author or publisher. The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages. It uses Diamond Open Access model. Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences applies the Creative Commons 4.0 International License to works we publish, because we believe that there should be no financial barriers to access to information that can benefit health and medical practice.
Authors can deposit author’s preprint, author’s postprint (accepted version) and publisher's version (PDF) of their work in an institutional repository, subject-based and general-purpose repository, author's personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.), and/or departmental website prior or during the submission process, at any time after the acceptance of the manuscript and at any time after publication.
Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and links must be made to the article's DOI and the license.


Why to Publish in JHRS?
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.
Please note that all submissions are thoroughly checked for plagiarism. JHRS uses Turnitin software for similarity checks.
Any manuscript that shows obvious signs of plagiarism will be automatically rejected.
In case plagiarism is discovered in a paper that has already been published by the journal, it will be retracted in accordance with the procedure described below under Retraction policy, and authors will be punished to have no another opportunity to submit an manuscript in JHRS.
JHRS is measuring the journal statistics because it is a very good way to advertising the journal. We are using social media to increase the visibility and citation of our articles.

Contact JHRS

Alma Mater Europaea University
Slovenska 17, 2000 Maribor,
Slovenia
Phone: +386-2-2501997; +389-2-3116-520 (234)

Monday, January 23, 2023

How to establish electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country

Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Philosophy, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia

ABSTRACT

Introduction: publishing an electronic, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal in a small country is really hard work. The advancement of electronic journals during recent years has given professionals in academia a powerful new tool to support learning and research.
The purpose of this article is to provide some guidelines about creating electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country through the example of Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Methods: An analysis of relevant literature, sources from the Internet and published literature, personal experience and observations of the author as editor-in-chief in two similar journals previously.
Findings: a new modern academic journal should be open access, peer-reviewed, with international editorial board, having staff who work very dedicatedly. The journal should be set it up on OJS platform, using Creative Commons license for authors and DOI numbers for the articles. Plagiarism detection is a prevention of publication ethics violation. Journal editors should make additional efforts to index journal in lot of scholarly databases and to intend to increase the visibility. Sharing journal content on social media has become an important instrument and platform for editors and researchers as well.
Conclusions: Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed, international, electronic journal. Editorial office expects your submitted articles in the following weeks and months.

Keywords: electornic, scholarly, open access, peer-review, journal, JHRS, small country

Friday, October 28, 2022

How to establish electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country

ABSTRACT

Vladimir Trajkovski
Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Introduction: publishing an electronic, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal in a small country is really hard work. The advancement of electronic journals during recent years has given professionals in academia a powerful new tool to support learning and research.
The purpose of this article is to provide some guidelines about creating electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country through the example of Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Methods: An analysis of relevant literature, sources from the Internet and published literature, personal experience and observations of the author as editor-in-chief in two similar journals previously.
Findings: a new modern academic journal should be open access, peer-reviewed, with international editorial board, having staff who work very dedicatedly. The journal should be set it up on OJS platform, using Creative Commons license for authors and DOI numbers for the articles. Plagiarism detection is a prevention of publication ethics violation. Journal editors should make additional efforts to index journal in lot of scholarly databases and to intend to increase the visibility. Sharing journal content on social media has become an important instrument and platform for editors and researchers as well.
Conclusions: Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed, international, electronic journal. Editorial office expects your submitted articles in the following weeks and months.

Keywords: electornic, scholarly, open access, peer-review, journal, JHRS, small country

Source: https://jhrs.almamater.si/index.php/jhrs/article/view/35

Monday, August 15, 2022

Call for papers Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2022

Respected colleagues,

We want to announce that Alma Mater Europaea University – ECM and Macedonian Scientific Society for Autism launched new journal entitled: Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS). JHRS is a multidisciplinary, peer reviewed, scholarly, international, electronic journal. 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 and other contributions from all the fields of health sciences, rehabilitation sciences, developmental diversities, special education, psychology, social policy, and the related sciences. 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 will be around 20 articles published per year. 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. Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is devoted to the scientific study of health disturbances and rehabilitation. 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.

You are kindly invited to submit an article in our Journal. Please type them in Word format. Please use Times New Roman font with Font size 12. The manuscript can not exceed 30.000 characters with no spaces A4 format including Abstract, Tables, Figures, and References. The margins should be 2 cm from every side, and also paragraph should be 1.5 lines. The style of referencing is from APA.

The dead line for sending the manuscripts is October 31st 2022.

With respect,
JHRS Editor-in-Chief








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