Physiotherapy
Last updated ISSN 0031-9406
Physiotherapy is published by Elsevier BV in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,480.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Physiotherapy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Sports injuries and prevention
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0031-9406, 1873-1465 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,480 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 13,366 |
| Publishing since | 1988 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/physiotherapy |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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