Women’s Special Issue Series: Their Contribution to Rheumato Study

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is part of the MDPI journal initiative to promote and support the contributions of women in research. The aim of the Special Issue is to collect research and review articles that highlight the scientific achievements of women in the field of rheumatology.

For this Special Issue, we welcome all research led by female scientists, where male scientists may offer support for the initiative as co-authors. We welcome submissions from all authors, irrespective of gender.

Thus, the following are offered (as an incomplete list of options) for submission topics:

• The premises inherent to rheumatology.
• The history of rheumatology and its principles.
• The character of diseases affecting bones and joints.
• The character of immunologic/autoimmune diseases.
• The character of the rare and multisystem diseases.
• Pattern recognition aspects of differential diagnosis.
• Patterns of disease as population phenomena.
• Technical aspects of utilizable diagnostic modalities.
• Critical analysis of therapeutic interventions and their pros and cons.
• Technical aspects of utilizable therapeutic modalities.
• Archeological/zoological/paleontological evidence of/correlates with disease.
• Pro and con opinion pieces.
• Statistical methodology and its premises for rheumatologists.

I hope I can inspire your participation in this endeavor and look forward to learning from your perspectives.

Dr. Irene Cecchi
Dr. Karen Schreiber
Dr. Massimo Radin
Guest Editors

Women’s Special Issue Series

This Special Issue is part of Rheumato’s Women’s Special Issue Series, hosted by women editors for women researchers. The Series advocates the advancement of women in science. We invite contributions to the Special Issue whose lead authors identify as women. The submission of articles with all-women authorship is especially encouraged. However, we do welcome articles from all authors, irrespective of gender.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Rheumato is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.