Focus and Scope
The Revista Internacional de Ciencias Podológicas (ISSN-e 1989-5151) publishes work on chiropody, a science that studies the inflictions and deformities of the feet and lower limbs as well as repercussions on other organs or systems in the human body. The aim of the journal is thereby to research lower limb pathologies and be used as an instrument for scientific-technical updates. The journal is intended for Chiropody professionals as well as specialists in Orthopaedic Surgery, Rheumatology, Dermatology and Radiology who wish to disseminate their research on foot and lower limb pathologies.
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Revista Internacional de Ciencias Podológicas is an open access journal that does not charge authors for article processing (submission, review or editing) or publication.
Interoperability protocols
Revista internacional de Ciencias Podológicas provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that enables interoperability between different platforms and repositories through the exchange of metadata.
Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata formats: Dublin Core Metadata; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807
URL for harvesters: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RICP/oai
Code of Conduct and best practice
Revista Internacional de Ciencias Podológicas abides by the Code of Conduct and Good Practices established by the Complutense University of Madrid for journals published by Ediciones Complutense in the Complutense Scientific Journals Website. The aim of the code is to ensure the scientific quality of publications and the adequate response of the editorial teams to the needs of readers, authors and reviewers. Works that do not comply with these ethical standards will be rejected.
Anti-plagiarism policy
Revista Internacional de Ciencias Podológicas guarantees the originality of all the submitted manuscripts through the use of anti-plagiarism software provided by Ediciones Complutense. This policy ensures the appropriate originality standards as well as the detection of coincidences and similarities between texts sent for publication and those published previously in other sources. In the event of plagiarism, the manuscript will be rejected.
