Iranian Rehabilitation Journal aims to provide the readers with a variety of topics, including: original articles, hypothesis formation, editorials, literature reviews, case reports, short communications, special reports, letters to the editor, discussions of public policy issues and book reviews, and methodology articles in the fields of rehabilitation and social welfare, including (but not limited to):
Clinical and basic research in various special needs groups
Physical, mental and psychosocial rehabilitation
Epidemiological studies on disabling conditions
Social welfare, Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Mental Health
Vocational and socio-medical aspects of rehabilitation
IRJ also welcomes papers focusing on the genetic basis of common disabling disorders across human populations. Those studies may include (but not limited to):
The genetic basis of common single gene and complex disorders.
Bioinformatics tools to investigate and to model biological phenomena
Novel computational tools and databases
Sequence analysis
Population analysis
Databases and text mining
IRJ welcomes submissions that provide interesting and timely knowledge intersecting between clinical and basic research. We are particularly interested in papers that answer longstanding questions, open new avenues of research, report unexpected findings, or change the way we think about rehabilitation and social welfare.