The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD) is a peer-reviewed open access

Open access

Open access refers to unrestricted access via the Internet to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs....

 medical journal

Medical journal

A public health journal is a scientific journal devoted to the field of public health, including epidemiology, biostatistics, and health care . Public health journals, like most scientific journals, are peer-reviewed...

 published by the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service

Rehabilitation Research and Development Service

The Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development's Rehabilitation Research and Development Service funds research to improve or restore function in veterans who have become disabled because of injury or disease...

 of the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development

Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development

The Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development is the research and development agency of the Veterans Health Administration in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs...

. Itcovers research on rehabilitation medicine. It publishes ten issues each year, which can be multi- or single-topic. Recent single-topic issue include traumatic brain injury

Traumatic brain injury

Traumatic brain injury , also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. TBI can be classified based on severity, mechanism , or other features...

, dysphagia

Dysphagia

Dysphagia is the medical term for the symptom of difficulty in swallowing. Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, the term is sometimes used as a condition in its own right. Sufferers are sometimes unaware of their dysphagia....

, cochlear implants, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

JRRD publishes in print and electronic formats. The online version contains the full archive dating back to 1964.

Abstracting and indexing

JRRD is abstracted and indexed by:

According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

 of1.708.

History

• 1964: The Bulletin of Prosthetics Research (BPR), the first in-house Veterans Administration medical journal, published its premier issue and continued for the next 18 years, through 1982.
• 1983: BPR was expanded into JRRD, which has been published continuously since 1983. From the first issue, JRRD's scope of coverage was more inclusive than BPR's, including assistive technology
  Assistive technology
  Assistive technology or adaptive technology is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them...
  
   (wheelchairs, hearing and reading devices, computers as speech aids), spinal cord injury
  Spinal cord injury
  A spinal cord injury refers to any injury to the spinal cord that is caused by trauma instead of disease. Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged, the symptoms can vary widely, from pain to paralysis to incontinence...
  
  , prosthetics and orthotics
  Orthotics
  Orthotics is a specialty within the medical field concerned with the design, manufacture and application of orthoses. An orthosis is an orthopedic device that supports or corrects the function of a limb or the torso...
  
  , postsurgical amputation
  Amputation
  Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...
  
   management, and gait
  Gait
  Gait is the pattern of movement of the limbs of animals, including humans, during locomotion over a solid substrate. Most animals use a variety of gaits, selecting gait based on speed, terrain, the need to maneuver, and energetic efficiency...
  
  restoration.