The Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología (RAAOT) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes original basic and clinical research articles, and case reports, about diagnosis, treatment and pathophysiology of musculoskeletal diseases. Manuscripts being considered by another Journal will not be accepted.

Accepted manuscripts will be published in the online version: https://raaot.org.ar 

Since May 2012, RAAOT is also published in English. Complete articles are published in its original language (Spanish) and English.

Since 2021 (RAAOT) is published bimonthly.

Focus and Scope

The mission of the Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología is the scientific update of this specialty and its objective is to be the representative organ of the scientific activity developed in this Association. The Journal includes research articles, review articles, clinical studies, case reports, updates, postgraduate instruction, and editorials.

Peer Review Process

All original papers submitted go through a preliminary review that establishes whether the paper falls within the scope of the journals’ objectives, editorial policies and guidelines.

The Journal of the Argentine Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology (RAAOT, by its Spanish acronym) has adopted the following procedure to prevent the publication of papers that involve unethical practices such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, and segmented publication, among others:

 

1. Authors must state that the submitted manuscript (or any of its part) has not been previously published in any other publication.

 

2. Authors must also state whether they have published other papers which are a product of the same research project. In such event, authors must state similarities and differences for them to be explored by the Editorial Committee, which is responsible for the final decision on whether misconduct occurred (self-plagiarism, duplicate publication or segmented publication) or whether the manuscript may be accepted for review by the appointed Reviewers.

 

3. The RAAOT uses online tools and software to detect cases of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication and segmented publication. The RAAOT uses the software Plagiarism Checker X to check the level of similarity of the articles it receives. Cases of ethics violations should be addressed following the guidelines of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/files/Spanish%20%281%29.pdf

 

Peer review is the standard practice that is thoroughly carried out by the RAAOT. The RAAOT publishes original research papers (which have not been concurrently submitted to another journal), which undergo a double-blind peer review by two or more reviewers, and are related to the diagnosis, treatment and pathophysiology of musculoskeletal diseases and conditions, including basic science and clinical research, as well as case reports.

RAAOT Reviewers are third-parties who are not members of the Editorial Committee or of the Board of Directors of the Argentine Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology.

The RAAOT has an International Scientific Advisory Committee whose members are prominent specialists that collaborate in judging aspects of controversial manuscripts.

Once the potential reviewers have accepted to review a manuscript, a 3-week period is established for them to deliver a report. Upon reception of these reports and based thereon, the Editorial Committee must decide whether to accept the manuscript and provide the authors with the opportunity to revise the manuscript, or to reject it.

Revised manuscripts undergo a new review process by the same reviewers in order to establish if the authors have taken into consideration the suggestions put forward by the reviewers and the Editorial Committee (if applicable) and if they have met the first review requirements. In cases where reviewers disagree in certain aspects, a third reviewer will be appointed to decide. Upon said assessment, the manuscript may be conclusively accepted or rejected. When accepted, the manuscript goes through the final copy-editing and layout editing processes in which the authors will be asked to participate to collaborate with the copy-editing team on any requirements and correcting any potential mistakes.

The Editorial Committee must ensure that the anonymous peer-review process should last no longer than 3 months, whenever possible.

Each year, the RAAOT last annual issue includes the name of the reviewers that accepted to participate in the review processes for the ongoing year.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public, which encourages greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Repositories

LOCKSS Open Journal Systems supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for journal content.

CLOCKSS Open Journal Systems also supports the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for the journal. 

 This Journal is also  included in BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): international multidisciplinary repository of the Bielefeld University Library, Germany.

Copyright

The Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología is an open-access journal, for no fee, i.e. all the journal contents are available for users free of charge.

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, conduct search for, or link the unabridged article-texts as long as they quote the publication, or use them with whichever valid purpose without asking for authorization from neither the journal nor the article-authors. Authors are allowed and encouraged to broadcast their work on the internet (e.g. on social media, on personal web pages) what, needless to say, can promote lively debate and increase the quotation of the published work.

The acceptance of the article by the journal implies that the author/s have not presented it simultaneously to other journals or editorial bodies. The RAAOT is licensed under the Creative-Commons-Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike-4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/; this one allows the share, copy, distribution, alteration, transformation, generation of a derivative work, execution and public communication of the work as long as a) the authorship and the original source of publication (journal, editorial and work URL) are quoted, and b)  the same license conditions are applied. The transference of rights from the author/s to the editors provides the latter with authorization for the work to be filed in the Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología and broadcast through the database that the editor considers appropriate for indexation and social media use so as to increase the visibility of the publication and that of its authors.

The Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología is not accountable for any responsibility for potential conflicts derived from the authorship of the work that it publishes.

Publication Rights

This Journal does not charge the authors publication rights or any other similar charge.

Ethics Code

This Journal adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)  https://publicationethics.org  and the Council of Science Editors (CSE)https://www.councilscienceeditors.org  Code of Conduct, and performs procedures to detect plagiarism, duplication, and any other ethical problem.

The Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología (Orthopedics Argentine association journal), RAAOT, only publishes articles which are original, i.e. written by those who declare authorship, and which are unpublished, i.e. previously published by neither printed nor electronic media.

Therefore, at the time of sending their articles authors declare that they have been previously published neither fully nor partially in any other media.

Authors should also declare whether or not there have been other publications on the same piece of research.

In such cases, they should declare similarities and differences for the Editorial Committee to analyze them and, eventually, the Editorial Committee will determine if there are self-plagiarism, duplication or fragmentation flaws or if, on the contrary, acceptance is possible and advisable for assigned Reviewers to evaluate the work.

The RAAOT uses programs and Internet tools to detect plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplication and fragmentation. The RAAOT uses the software Plagiarism Checker X to check the level of similarity of the articles it receives.

In the case of detecting any of such ethical flaws, procedures to be adopted are those outlined by the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts 

Journal History

The Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología is the official scientific publication of the Asociación Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología in Argentina. It has been published quarterly since 1936 to 2020. Since 2021 (RAAOT) is published bimonthly.