About the Journal
Mission statement
The Revue Francophone de Recherche en Ergothérapie (RFRE) is an international, electronic, freely accessible, French-language scientific journal for people interested in occupational therapy or occupational sciences. It is founded on a desire to share knowledge, pedagogy, creativity and originality. It publishes articles in occupational therapy and occupational sciences, regardless of the research design used.
In the field of French-speaking occupational therapy and occupational sciences, we see ourselves as an independent scientific vehicle whose objectives are to :
- Encourage excellence, innovation and originality in research
- Contribute to the dissemination and promotion of scientific knowledge
- Promote scientific exchange within communities
- Develop and offer a referenced body of research.
RFRE is indexed in CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), EBSCO Essentials, Google Scholar, OTDBASE, Ulrichsweb, JournalTOCs, PKP Index, QOAM, BASE , LiSSa, DOAJ, Open policy finder (Sherpa Romeo), Mir@abel et Isidore de Huma-Num.
The journal publishes editorials, research articles (under the heading ‘Research articles’), critical summaries of scientific publications or events (under the heading ‘Read/Viewed for you’), methodological articles (under the heading ‘Methodologies’), summary articles (under the heading ‘Our work in brief’) and letters to the editor (under the heading ‘Letter to the editor’).
The journal endeavours to comply with current standards of publication ethics (COPE).
Articles are archived using the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) digital preservation system.
Peer review process
Research articles undergo blind peer review. Reviews are anonymous. The final decision on publication is taken by the Editorial Committee. Other types of article are reviewed exclusively by the Editorial Committee.
The RFRE accepts articles on a variety of subjects and using a variety of methodologies, provided that these methodologies are applied rigorously and that the results and conclusions are scientifically sound.
Open access policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research available to the public free of charge facilitates a greater exchange of knowledge on a global scale.
The articles are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence, which means that the document can be freely distributed, copied and shared, in a non-commercial perspective, as long as it is properly attributed to the authors and distributed under the same conditions.
Publication in the Revue Francophone de Recherche en Ergothérapie is free of charge for the authors. Articles are accessible to readers free of charge.
Contributors
- Haute Ecole de Travail Social et de la Santé - HETSL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Union Professionnelle des Ergothérapeutes, Belgium
- Swiss Association of Occupational Therapists, Bern, Switzerland
- University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Delémont, Switzerland
- Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
History of the journal
At the initiative of Sylvie Tetreault, a small group of occupational therapists from various French-speaking countries decided, in the course of 2012-2013, to found the Communauté pour l'Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE).
CARAFE's first aim was to create a French-language journal dedicated to occupational therapy research.
The first edition was published in 2015.
