About the Journal
Mission Statement
The Revue Francophone de Recherche en Ergothérapie (RFRE) is the only international, free, electronic and entirely French-speaking research journal in the field. It publishes articles in occupational therapy and occupational sciences.
It is an independent scientific vehicle whose objectives are to:
- Encourage excellence, innovation and originality in French-speaking occupational therapy research
- Contribute to the dissemination and promotion of francophone scientific knowledge in occupational therapy
- Promote scientific exchanges within the francophone communities
- To develop and offer a referenced corpus of francophone research in occupational therapy
The 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, Sherpa Romeo, Mir@abel and Isidore from Huma-Num.
The journal publishes research articles ("Research Articles" section), critical reviews of publications or scientific events ("Read/Viewed for You" section), methodology articles ("Methodologies" section), review articles ("Our Work in Progress" section), short reviews ("Short Review" section) and letters to the editor ("Letter to the Editor" section).
The journal strives 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 publication decision is made by the Editorial Board. Other types of articles are reviewed exclusively by the Editorial Board.
RFRE accepts articles on a variety of topics and using a variety of methodologies, provided that the methodologies are rigorously applied and 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, worldwide.
The articles are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, 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. The articles are freely accessible to the readers.
Sources of support
- Haute Ecole de Travail Social et de la Santé - HETSL, Lausanne, Suisse
- Association des ergothérapeutes, Uccle, Belgique
- Association Suisse des Ergothérapeutes, Berne, Suisse
- Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale, Delémont, Suisse
- Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, Suisse
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
History of the journal
At the initiative of Sylvie Tetreault, a small group of occupational therapists from different French-speaking countries decided, in the course of the years 2012-2013, to found the Communauté pour l'Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE).
CARAFE's first goal was to create a francophone journal dedicated to occupational therapy research.
The first edition was published in 2015.
