• Joint Diseases and Related Surgery (formerly published as Eklem Hastalıkları ve Cerrahisi) is the official publication of the Turkish Joint Diseases Foundation.
• Joint Diseases and Related Surgery is open access journal. The full text of the articles of the Journal are freely available without embargo since 1990.
• Joint Diseases and Related Surgery is international, double-blind peer-reviewed periodical journal bringing the latest developments in all aspects of joint diseases and related surgey.
• Joint Diseases and Related Surgery is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded/Journal Citation Report, PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, TÜBİTAK, ULAKBİM/TR Dizin, and Turkish Citation Index.
• The Journal is published three times a year (April, August and December).
• The Journal welcomes original clinical and empirical scientific research articles, reviews and case reports (limited number) or clinical pictures (limited number) on joint diseases and related surgery, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, general orthopedics and traumatology written only in English. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal must be original studies to attract readers' interest. Evident contributions to the field, correctness of the results, clear explanation of the methodology enabling to reproduce the results independently are important.
• Statements and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the editors and the publisher.
• Turkish Joint Diseases Foundation has the international copyright of all the material published in the Journal. The Journal’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License  (CC BY-NC  4.0).  

Joint Diseases and Related Surgery aims:

• Raising awareness of the burden of joint diseases & injuries
• Increasing knowledge of the suffering and costs of joint diseases & injuries
• Improving access to cost-effective prevention and treatment
• Increasing research into joint diseases & injuries, prevention and treatment