Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by SAGE in association with the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association, and it concerns the engineering and practical use of rehabilitation and assistive technologies.《康复与辅助技术工程杂志》是 SAGE 与美国矫形与假肢协会合作出版的同行评议开放获取期刊，关注康复与辅助技术的工程实现与实际应用。

The 2025 journal citation report gives the title an impact factor of 2.2 and a five-year figure of 3.0, in the third quartile of biomedical engineering within the emerging sources citation index.2025 年版期刊引证报告给出的影响因子为 2.2，五年影响因子为 3.0，该刊在新兴来源引文索引的生物医学工程类目居第三区。

Scope

• The journal is interdisciplinary by design, and it sets the engineering of a device beside the clinical question that the device is meant to answer.该刊按跨学科来经营，把器件的工程实现同该器件所回应的临床问题放在一起。

• Rehabilitation technology forms one half of its subject, covering the equipment and the therapy that restore function after injury or illness.康复技术构成其题材的一半，涵盖损伤或疾病之后恢复功能的设备与疗法。

• Assistive technology forms the other half, and the journal follows the tools that help a person carry out a daily task they would otherwise struggle with.辅助技术构成另一半，该刊追踪那些帮助人完成本难以自理之日常任务的工具。

• Activities of daily living are a recurring theme, and a study may measure how well a device supports eating, dressing or moving about.日常生活活动是反复出现的主题，研究可以测量某一器件对进食、穿衣或活动的支持程度。

• Orthoses and prostheses belong to the remit, and work on the fitting, the materials and the control of a limb support is taken.矫形器与假肢属于其范围，关于肢体支撑的适配、材料与控制的都在收载之列。

• Wheelchairs and other mobility aids are treated at length, from the frame to the transfer that a user must manage.轮椅与其他助行设备得到充分处理，从车架一直延伸到使用者必须完成的转移动作。

• Powered exoskeletons and rehabilitation robotics are named among the interests, so an actuated device may be studied for the gait it produces.动力外骨骼与康复机器人列于关切之中，可驱动器件因而可以就其所产生的步态接受研究。

• Neurorehabilitation is covered, and the journal takes work that couples a device to the recovery of a person after stroke or injury.神经康复在覆盖之列，该刊收载把器件与卒中或损伤之后人的恢复相耦合的工作。

• Functional electrical stimulation sits inside that theme, and papers study how a controlled stimulus restores movement or sensation.功能性电刺激处在这一主题之内，论文研究受控刺激如何恢复运动或感觉。

• Virtual reality and other training environments appear in the pages, used as a setting in which a therapy can be delivered and measured.虚拟现实与其他训练环境出现在版面中，被用作开展并测量某种疗法的场所。

• Wearable sensing and inertial measurement fall within the remit, and such work underlies the objective tracking of how a person moves.可穿戴传感与惯性测量属于其范围，这类工作为客观追踪人的运动方式提供基础。

• Human factors and safety are treated, since a device that is useful must also be usable and safe for the person it serves.人因与安全得到处理，因为一件有用的器件对它服务的人而言也必须可用且安全。

• Sports engineering appears among the adjacent fields, and para-sport work has been published in the journal.运动工程出现于相邻领域之中，残障运动方面的工作也曾在刊内发表。

• The journal carries work from the laboratory to the clinic, and it values a study that shows whether a device works for the people who need it.该刊刊载自实验室到临床的工作，并看重一项研究能否说明器件对需要它的人确实有效。

• Methodological and clinical studies are both welcome, the journal taking engineering detail and outcome data together.方法学研究与临床研究都受欢迎，该刊把工程细节与结果数据一并收载。

History

• The journal was founded in 2014, and it has appeared under one title and one identifier since, the electronic number 2055-6683 serving for both the print and the online form.该刊创办于 2014 年，此后一直沿用同一题名与同一刊号，电子号 2055-6683 同时用于纸本形态与网络形态。

• It is issued by SAGE from London, and it appears in association with the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association.该刊由 SAGE 在伦敦发行，并与美国矫形与假肢协会合作出版。

• The journal publishes one volume a year and places articles online as they are accepted, so a recent paper can be read well before its volume closes.该刊每年出版一卷，文章录用后即先上线，故近期论文往往在其所属卷尚未收束之前即可读到。

• Since its founding the volume number has run forward without a break, so volume 12 fell in 2026.自创刊以来卷号一路前进而未曾中断，第 12 卷因而对应 2026 年。

• The medical library catalogue has listed the title from its first volume of 2014, and it records coverage in PubMed from that first volume onward.医学图书馆目录自其 2014 年第一卷起收录该刊，其记载的 PubMed 收录也自第一卷开始。

• The journal is listed in PubMed Central as well as in the emerging sources citation index, a pairing that suits its clinical subject matter.该刊同时见于 PubMed Central 与新兴来源引文索引，这一组合与它的临床题材相称。

• It was admitted to the emerging sources citation index in due course, and it has since reported an impact factor for three years running.该刊按期被新兴来源引文索引收录，此后已连续三年报出影响因子。

• The impact figure stood at 2.0 in 2023 and 2.0 in 2024 before reaching 2.2 in 2025, with the five-year value well above the yearly one at 3.0.影响因子 2023 年为 2.0，2024 年为 2.0，到 2025 年升至 2.2，五年值显著高于年度值，为 3.0。

• The journal is fully open access, and the gold share of its content stood at 98.73 per cent in 2025.该刊完全开放获取，2025 年其内容的金色开放获取比例为 98.73%。

• Its output is steady rather than large, running to some twenty-seven papers a year across a field that gathers engineering, clinical work and human factors.其产出平稳而不算大，一年约二十七篇论文，横跨汇集了工程、临床工作与人因的领域。

Editors

• The journal is led by an editor-in-chief with a set of associate editors, and the platform lists the editorial team under the journal's own pages.该刊由一位主编连同若干副编辑主持，平台在期刊自有的页面上列出编辑团队。

• The board is interdisciplinary by intention, and it gathers engineers, clinicians and rehabilitation specialists so that a device is judged from both sides.编委会刻意跨学科，汇集工程师、临床医生与康复专家，使一件器件可从两侧得到评判。

• The association with the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association ties the journal to the practitioners who fit and make orthoses and prostheses.与美国矫形与假肢协会的合作把该刊同制作并适配矫形器与假肢的从业者联系起来。

• Papers are peer reviewed, and the guidance follows the publisher's ethics policies and the recommendations of the international committee of medical journal editors.稿件经同行评议，其指南遵循出版方的伦理政策以及国际医学期刊编辑委员会的各项建议。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's online system, and the journal asks for the kind of detail that lets another team rebuild an experiment.稿件经出版方的在线系统提交，该刊要求给出足以让另一团队重建实验的细节。

• Special collections gather work on one theme, and recent calls have looked at inclusive assistive technologies and at telehealth-enabled rehabilitation.专题汇集围绕单一主题的工作，近期征稿关注包容性辅助技术与远程医疗支持的康复。

• The journal asks authors to report both the engineering performance of a device and the clinical outcome it produced, so that the two can be read together.该刊要求作者同时报告器件的工程性能与它所产生的结果，使两者可被一并阅读。

• Because the title is fully open access, an article can be read by a clinician or a maker without a subscription, which the journal treats as part of its purpose.由于该刊完全开放获取，文章无须订阅即可被临床医生或制作者读到，该刊把这一点视为自身用意的一部分。

• Reviewers are drawn from the journal's own community, and the editors encourage a reader who publishes here to serve as a referee in turn.审稿人取自该刊自身的共同体，编辑鼓励在此发表过的读者转而承担审稿之责。

• The journal takes case studies as well as trials, since a single fitting can show what a device does for one person.该刊也收案例研究，与试验并重，因为单次适配即可显示一件器件对一个人起了什么作用。

• Cochlear and sensory aids appear in the pages, extending assistive technology beyond movement into hearing and sight.耳蜗与感官辅助器出现在版面中，把辅助技术从运动延伸到听觉与视觉。

• Cognitive and communication aids are covered, and the journal follows the software that supports a person with memory or speech difficulty.认知与交流辅助在覆盖之列，该刊追踪支持记忆或言语困难者的软件。

• Papers are asked to report the participants and the setting, so that a reader can judge whether a finding will carry to their own clinic.论文被要求报告受试者与实施场景，使读者能判断某项发现能否迁移到自己的门诊。

• The journal gives room to negative or mixed results, since a device that fails a trial teaches as much as one that passes it.该刊为阴性或混合结果留有位置，因为未通过试验的器件与通过者同样给人以教益。

• Papers on the supply and the servicing of a device appear too, since a technology lasts only if it can be maintained in the field.器件供给与维护方面的论文也会出现，因为一项技术只有能在现场被维护才能持久。