The Journal of Pediatrics is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 monthly medical journal

Medical journal

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 that covers all aspects of pediatrics

Pediatrics

Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...

. Readership for The Journal of Pediatrics includes pediatricians, researchers, pediatric investigators, and all those who diagnose and treat infants and children. The Journal of Pediatrics was first published in 1932. Although it was originally affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Academy of Pediatrics is the major professional association of pediatricians in the United States. The AAP was founded in 1930 by 35 pediatricians to address pediatric healthcare standards. It currently has 60,000 members in primary care and sub-specialist areas...

, it is currently associated with the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs. It is published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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 in both online and print versions.

Impact and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, The Journal of Pediatrics has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 4.042, ranking it 3rd out of 107 pediatric medical journals. The journal is abstracted and indexed in several online databases, including, Scopus

Scopus

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, PubMed

PubMed

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, and MEDLINE

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.

History

The Journal of Pediatrics was established in 1932 by the American Academy of Pediatrics and was published through a partnership with C. V. Mosby

Mosby (publisher)

Mosby is an American publisher of textbooks and scholarly journals. It is currently an imprint of Elsevier.Formerly independent, C. V. Mosby, Inc. was acquired by Times Mirror in 1967. Harcourt General acquired Mosby from Times Mirror in 1998; Harcourt General was purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2000....

. This partnership ended in 1947 when the academy launched Pediatrics

Pediatrics (journal)

Pediatrics is an official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In the inaugural January 1948 issue, the journal's first editor, Hugh McCulloch, articulated the journal's vision: "The content of the journal is... intended to encompass the needs of the whole child in his...

, citing their desire to have sole responsibility for all aspects of publishing their own society journal. The Journal of Pediatrics remained unaffiliated with any other medical society until 2001, when the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs began publishing a monthly feature in it. Since July 1947, the journal has been governed by its own editorial board

Editorial board

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, which has sole responsibility for creating and maintaining editorial policy. Due to the expanding international scope, an international advisory panel was added to the editorial board in 1999.

Editors in chief

The following persons have been or currently serve as editor in chief

Editor in chief

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:

• Borden S. Veeder and Hugh McCulloch (1932–1947)
• Borden S. Veeder (1947–1959)
• Waldo E. Nelson (1959–1977)
• Joseph M. Garfunkel (1977–1995)
• William F. Balistreri (1996–present)

Article types

The Journal of Pediatrics publishes the following types of articles and editorial content:

• Original Research Articles
• Clinical and Laboratory Observations (Case report
  Case report
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  s)
• Medical Progress (Reviews
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  )
• Grand Rounds
• Commentaries
• Insights
• Letters to the Editors
  Letter to the editor
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• Editorials
• Notes from The Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs
• Current Best Evidence
• 50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics
• Announcements and Upcoming Events

External links

• Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs