BMC Pediatrics is a fully open access journal covering health care in neonates, children and adolescents, and also the molecular genetics, pathophysiology and epidemiology that sit behind it. The aims page writes those four things in one sentence.《BMC Pediatrics》是全开放获取刊，覆盖新生儿、儿童与青少年的医疗照护，也收其背后的分子遗传学、病理生理学与流行病学。宗旨页把这四样写在同一句话里。
The age window is explicit. Research from birth to 21 years of age belongs here, which puts adolescent medicine inside the remit and not in a separate publication.年龄边界写得很明白。从出生到 21 岁的研究都归这里，青春期医学因此被圈在范围内，没有另立门户。
Seven areas are named on the aims page. Behaviour and development, general pediatric medicine and surgery, genetic and congenital disorders, global and public health, infection, neonatology, and the cluster around nutrition and endocrinology.宗旨页点了七个方向。行为与发育是一块，普通儿科与儿科外科是一块，遗传与先天性疾病是一块，全球与公共卫生是一块，感染是一块，新生儿科是一块，营养与内分泌合成一块。
Each of the seven comes with examples rather than a definition. Autism and cerebral palsy under development, Kawasaki disease and congenital heart disease under genetics, diarrhoeal disease under infection. The list is there to show the width.七块都配了例子，没给定义。自闭症与脑瘫放在发育一栏，川崎病与先天性心脏病放在遗传一栏，腹泻性疾病放在感染一栏。列出来是为了显示宽度。
The editorial policy is sound science rather than significance. The aims page states that decisions are not made on the interest of a study or its likely impact, and that validity, suitable methods and community standards are the criteria.编辑方针是站得住比重要更要紧。宗旨页写明，决定不看病题是否有趣、不看它可能有多大影响，看的是研究是否成立、方法是否合适、是否守本行的通行标准。
That policy has a consequence for authors. A well-run negative trial and a well-run replication both have a place here, and a paper cannot be turned away for being unsurprising.这条方针有后果。做得扎实的阴性试验、做得扎实的重复研究，在这里都有位置，稿子不能因为结论平淡被退。
There are no page ranges. Articles carry numbers instead, and the journal page labels them as such, so the most recent item in the current volume is listed as Article 1071 rather than with a first and last page.这里没有起止页码。文章用编号，期刊页面就写作 Article 1071 这样的形式，当卷最新的一篇只给编号，不给首末页。
Output is large and still growing. Crossref holds 8,764 records, with 520 in 2019, 862 in 2024 and 1,435 in 2026, so the journal has nearly tripled its annual volume in seven years.产出的体量很大，还在长。Crossref 存着 8,764 条记录，2019 年 520 条，2024 年 862 条，2026 年 1,435 条，七年里年发量接近三倍。
Case reports are a substantial share rather than a residue. There were 82 in 2025 and 116 in 2026, a volume that would be a specialist case-report journal's own annual output.病例报告在这里是重要的一块，不是残余。2025 年 82 篇，2026 年 116 篇，这个量够一本专门登病例报告的刊用一年。
Reviews run about a hundred a year. Systematic reviews and scoping reviews sit beside narrative ones, and the 2026 count of 104 is slightly below the 116 of the previous year.综述一年百篇上下。系统综述、范围综述与叙述性综述并排登，2026 年是 104 篇，比上一年的 116 篇略少。
Study protocols and guidelines are handled as separate article types. There were 19 protocols in 2025 and 16 in 2026, and guidelines rose from 2 to 6 over the same pair of years.研究方案与指南按独立文类处理。2025 年收了 19 份方案，2026 年 16 份，指南则从 2 份升到 6 份。
Corrections are frequent and visible. Eighteen appeared in 2025 and six in 2026, and the 2026 file also carries one retraction, which is the honest signature of a journal that publishes a thousand papers a year.更正频繁且公开。2025 年 18 条，2026 年 6 条，2026 年还有一条撤稿，一年发上千篇的刊物，这个痕迹是诚实的。
Speed is advertised in days, not months. The board page gives a median of 24 days from submission to first decision, and the registry puts the full path to publication at 21 weeks.速度按天数报，不按月报。编委会页面写投稿到首次决定的中位数是 24 天，登记里的全程发表周期是 21 周。
The article processing charge is 2,390 pounds, 3,190 dollars or 2,690 euros, depending on the currency of the invoice. A country-tiered pricing pilot applies to authors in lower-income economies and takes precedence over the older waiver list.版面费按发票币种记，英镑 2,390、美元 3,190、欧元 2,690。面向低收入经济体的分层定价试点正在跑，效力压过旧的豁免名单。
Authors pick between CC BY-NC-ND and CC BY. The no-derivatives option keeps a commercial reuser from repackaging a paper, and the fees page sets out what each licence allows without recommending one.作者在 CC BY-NC-ND 与 CC BY 之间选。禁演绎那一项挡的是商业再包装，收费页把两种许可各自允许什么写明，不去推荐哪一种。
Review is open. The reports are published alongside the article, with the names of the reviewers, which is a different editorial job from anonymous review and is recorded as such in the open access registry.评审是公开的。审稿意见连同审稿人姓名一起随文章刊出，这与匿名评审是两套编辑活儿，开放获取目录也是这么记的。
The indexing list is unusually long for a specialty title. Science Citation Index Expanded, MEDLINE and PubMed Central are the load-bearing entries, and Scopus, Embase, CAB Abstracts and Chemical Abstracts sit beside them.专科刊里，它的收录名单长得少见。撑着门面的是 SCIE、MEDLINE 与 PubMed Central，旁边排着 Scopus、Embase、CAB Abstracts 与化学文摘。
Three collections are open for submissions in late 2026. Pediatric acute trauma and injury prevention closes on 24 June 2027, allergy in pediatrics on 28 May 2027, and pediatric hearing disorders on 14 May 2027.2026 年下半年有三个专题在征稿。儿童急性创伤与伤害预防到 2027 年 6 月 24 日截止，儿科过敏到 5 月 28 日，儿童听力障碍到 5 月 14 日。
History
The first volume is 2001. The first article in it carries the DOI ending 1-1 and is a systematic review of postnatal steroids in preterm infants by one author, which is what a new open access journal could publish in its opening issue.第 1 卷是 2001 年。卷内第一篇文章的 DOI 以 1-1 结尾，是一位作者写的早产儿产后激素系统综述，一本新办的开放获取刊，创刊号能登的就是这种稿子。
Volume numbering runs from the year. Volume 26 covers 2026, volume 1 covered 2001, and there has never been more than one volume or one issue in a year.卷号跟着年份走。第 26 卷是 2026 年，第 1 卷是 2001 年，从来没有哪一年出过一卷以上，也没有哪一卷分过一期以上。
There is no print edition. The library record carries an electronic ISSN only, the spreadsheet field for the print number is empty, and no page grid exists to fill.没有纸本。图书馆记录只挂电子 ISSN，清单里的纸本号一栏是空的，也就不存在要填满的页格。
The imprint is London. BioMed Central opened there in 2001 as an open access publisher, and the library record has kept that place of publication for the whole run.出版地是伦敦。BioMed Central 2001 年在那里以开放获取出版方的身份开张，图书馆记录的出版地从头到尾没换过。
The journal belongs to a series rather than standing alone. The board page describes BMC Pediatrics as one of the subject-specific BMC titles that share policies across biology and medicine.这本刊属于一个系列，不是单独一本。编委会页面把《BMC Pediatrics》写成 BMC 系列里的一本专科刊，全系列在生物学与医学上共用一套政策。
MEDLINE took it from the first volume. Full indexing from 2001 is rare for an electronic journal of that year, and it means the whole run is searchable in one place.MEDLINE 从第 1 卷就收了。2001 年的电子刊能拿到全量收录的不多，好处是整段过刊都能在一处检索。
It entered the open access registry in the same year it launched. The registry dates the open access start to 2001, marks the title as BOAI-compliant, and lists LOCKSS, PubMed Central and two national libraries as preservation partners.它在创刊当年就进了开放获取目录。目录把开放获取起点记在 2001 年，标为符合 BOAI 声明，保存方列了 LOCKSS、PubMed Central 与两家国家图书馆。
The archive is complete and machine-readable. 8,764 records sit in Crossref, from the 2001 opening issue to the advance papers of 2026.存档完整且能机读。Crossref 里有 8,764 条记录，从 2001 年的创刊号到 2026 年的预发表文章都在。
DOI practice changed inside the same prefix. Early articles read 1471-2431-1-1, later ones read s12887 followed by a year and a serial number, and both forms resolve to the same journal.DOI 的写法在同一个前缀下换过一次。早期的文章是 1471-2431-1-1 这种格式，后来改成 s12887 加年份与流水号，两种写法指向同一本刊。
The hosting platform moved in 2026. A banner on the journal pages announces that BMC journals have moved to Springer Nature Link, which changes the reading address without changing the articles.托管平台在 2026 年搬了家。刊页顶上的横幅写着 BMC 系列已迁到 Springer Nature Link，阅读地址变了，文章本身没变。
The publisher field in Crossref reads Springer with BioMed Central in brackets. That is how the ownership is recorded after BioMed Central became part of Springer Nature.Crossref 的出版方字段写的是 Springer，括号里注明 BioMed Central。BioMed Central 并入 Springer Nature 之后，归属就是这么记的。
The ranking is second quartile in pediatrics, 55th of 190, with an impact factor of 2.3 and a five-year figure of 2.6. The five-year number being higher is what a large clinical archive looks like.排名在儿科是第二区，190 种里第 55。影响因子 2.3，五年值 2.6。五年值更高，是大型临床存档的样子。
Five impact factors read 2.125, 2.567, 2, 2 and 2.3. The journal lost half a point between 2022 and 2023 and has recovered a third of it since.五个影响因子依次是 2.125、2.567、2、2、2.3。2022 到 2023 年掉了半分，此后收回三分之一。
Citation volume is the largest in this group. The file counts 16,296 citations to 1,052 articles, with a cited half-life of 5.3 years, which is short for medicine and typical of a fast, high-volume title.被引体量是这一组里最大的。表里数到 16,296 次引用对 1,052 篇文章，被引半衰期 5.3 年，在医学里算短，符合快发高产的刊型。
All content is gold open access and the file records a gold share of 100 percent. There has never been a subscription route into this journal.内容全为金色开放获取，表里记的金色占比是 100%。这本刊从来就没有订阅这条路。
Editors
The lead editor is Jieying Zhou, listed with a PhD on the board page. A single lead editor over a thousand papers a year only works with section editors underneath.主编是 Jieying Zhou，编委会页面在名字后标了 PhD。一年上千篇稿子压在一位主编身上，底下必须有分栏编辑。
The board is openly recruiting. A notice on the journal page invites applications for editorial board members, which is how an open access title keeps a reviewer pool large enough for its volume.编委会在公开招人。刊页上挂着招募编委的告示，开放获取刊的审稿人池就是这么撑到与发稿量相配的。
Open review means the reports are on the record. A reviewer who writes a careless paragraph signs it, and the editor's letter is published too, so the decision is auditable after the fact.公开评审意味着意见留底。审稿人写下的每段话都署名，编辑的处理信也刊出，决定事后可查。
Sound science takes novelty off the table but not judgement. The desk cannot reject a paper for being dull, so the argument has to be about whether the design answers the question.站得住这一条把新颖性拿掉了，判断力没拿掉。编辑部不能用无趣退稿，争论只能落在设计是否回答了问题上。
Volume changes the shape of the job. With more than a thousand papers a year, triage happens at submission and the full read is reserved for what survives.产稿量改变了活儿的样子。一年上千篇，筛选在投稿环节就做了，通读只留给过了筛的稿子。
Collections are editor-curated and time-boxed. Three are open now with deadlines in May and June 2027, and each has a named subject that the editors have to fill without dropping the general queue.专题由编辑策划，限期收稿。眼下开着三个，截止日都在 2027 年 5 月与 6 月，每个都有明确题目，编辑得在不停常规队列的前提下把它填满。
Case reports have their own acceptance criteria. The board page points authors to a separate set of rules for article types other than research, which is where the standard for a single-patient paper is written down.病例报告另有一套录用标准。编委会页面把研究论文以外的文类指向单独的规则，单个病人的报告该按什么尺子量，写在那里。
Post-publication work is part of the desk. Eighteen corrections in 2025 and a retraction in 2026 mean somebody reads the mail and decides what has to be fixed in public.发表后的活儿也算这张桌子上的。2025 年 18 条更正、2026 年一条撤稿，说明有人在读来信，并在决定哪些错要当众改。
The journal publishes its own numbers. Impact factor, five-year factor, median days to first decision and annual downloads all sit on the board page, so the editorial performance is measured in public.刊物把自己的数字摆出来。影响因子、五年值、首次决定的日中位数、年下载量都写在编委会页面上，编辑绩效是公开计量的。
Submissions come from everywhere. A single issue carries work from Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran, China and Bhutan, and the reviewer pool has to match that spread rather than the editors' own address books.来稿来自各地。同一期里能看到埃塞俄比亚、加纳、伊朗、中国与不丹的稿子，审稿人池得配得上这个分布，不能只靠编辑自己的通讯录。
There is no page budget to defend. Without a print edition the constraint is policy, so length limits are set by article type and enforced in the guidelines rather than by the printer's signature count.没有页数预算要守。没有纸本，约束就成了政策，篇幅上限按文类定，写在投稿须知里，不由印厂的印张数决定。
Fees are tiered by country and priced at acceptance. The editorial decision and the invoice are separate steps, and the pricing pilot is administered on the publishing side rather than by the editors.费用按国家分档，录用时才定价。编辑决定与开票是两步，分层定价的试点在出版一侧执行，不经编辑的手。