Journal of Child Health Care

Journal of Child Health Care is an international, professionally oriented and interdisciplinary nursing journal concerned with the health and health care of neonates, children and young people together with their families.《儿童健康照护杂志》是一份面向专业读者的跨学科国际护理学期刊，关注范围覆盖新生儿、儿童与青少年及其家庭的健康和照护议题。

It appears four times a year from London under the SAGE Publications imprint, and its catalogue subtitle identifies its readership as professionals working with children in hospital and community settings.该刊由 SAGE Publications 在伦敦以每年 4 期的节奏出版，馆藏目录副题点明其读者是医院与社区中的儿童工作者。

Original empirical studies, theoretical papers and reviews reach the pages from authors in nursing, paediatric medicine, psychology and allied professions, and the editorial aim is application to practice rather than disciplinary credit.护理学与儿科医学以及心理专业人员的原创实证研究和理论文章在此发表，选稿尺度是对实践的可应用性而非学科归属。

Clarivate reported a 2025 journal impact factor of 1.9 with a five-year figure of 2.4, placing the title in the second quartile of both nursing and paediatrics.Clarivate 公布的 2025 年影响因子为 1.9，5 年影响因子为 2.4，在护理学与儿科学两个类目均列第二分区。

Scope

• The declared scope is broad ranging instead of specialty bound, and the journal describes itself as international, professionally oriented, interdisciplinary and peer reviewed.期刊自述的定位是内容宽广而不按专科划线，属性为国际化，面向专业读者，跨学科且经同行评议。
• Health care of neonates and of children with long term conditions occupies the centre of the field, with recent papers on cystic fibrosis, childhood cancer, insulin treated diabetes, sickle cell disease and neurological disability.新生儿照护与儿童慢性病居于版面中心，近年文章涉及囊性纤维化，儿童肿瘤与镰状细胞病，也覆盖糖尿病和神经功能障碍。
• Complex needs form a recurring subject in their own right, examined through family accounts of prolonged admission, home respiratory technology, temporary feeding tubes and tracheostomy education.复杂健康需求本身就是反复出现的议题，编辑部刊出长期住院与居家呼吸支持研究，也收录临时饲管和气管切开照护教育的家庭访谈。
• Well-being and quality of life are treated as measurable objects, including child reported instruments for inpatient experience, sense of belonging and health related quality of life.幸福感与生活质量被当作可测量的对象处理，刊发内容包含住院体验的儿童自评量表，归属感量表以及健康相关生活质量评估。
• Mental health care for young people runs through the table of contents, covering disclosure of illness to parents, crisis admission to acute paediatric wards and the support offered by general practitioners.青少年心理健康内容贯穿目录，涉及子女向父母披露病情、危机状态转入急性儿科病房以及全科医生提供的支持。
• Settings in view extend from acute hospitals and emergency departments to intensive care, primary care, community child health services and clinics serving underserved districts.观察场景从急性医院与急诊科延伸到重症监护，初级保健与社区儿童健康服务，也包括服务薄弱地区的诊所。
• Family centered care is a through line, with studies of parental presence during resuscitation, father involvement, caregiver information needs and the experience of raising two ill siblings.以家庭为中心的照护是一条主线，选题包括抢救时家长是否在侧与父亲参与，也讨论照护者的信息需求，以及同时抚育两名患病子女的经历。
• The professional workforce attracts sustained attention, notably quality of working life for neonatal nurses, moral injury, self forgiveness after clinical error and the policies written by nurse leaders.专业人员队伍受到持续关注，典型选题是新生儿科护士的工作生活质量与道德损伤，也包括临床差错后的自我宽恕，以及护理管理者制定的政策。
• Practice roles distinctive to child health are studied on their own terms, among them hospital play specialists, distraction techniques during routine clinics and emotional safety screening before child life referral.儿童健康领域的特有实践角色被单独考察，刊出过病房游戏治疗师、门诊操作中的分散注意技巧以及游戏治疗转介前的情绪安全筛查研究。
• Culturally safe care for diverse families is a stated concern, with work involving Indigenous Australian households, families of limited English proficiency, displaced communities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and migrant parents in Europe.对多元家庭提供文化安全照护是明列的关切，相关研究涉及澳大利亚原住民家庭，英语能力有限的家庭，巴勒斯坦被占领土的流离家庭与欧洲移民父母。
• Editorials also take up structural questions of child health, including systemic trauma as a public health problem for young people and the health consequences of nuclear armament.社论亦触及儿童健康的结构性议题，刊出过将系统性创伤视为青少年公共卫生问题以及核军备健康后果等评论。
• Study designs published there include quantitative surveys, qualitative interview research, pilot evaluations, scoping reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, with methodological reporting standards themselves a subject of debate.刊载的研究设计涵盖定量调查与质性访谈研究，也包括试验性评估，范围综述以及荟萃分析，方法学报告规范本身还是讨论对象。
• Transition from paediatric to adult services forms another strand, addressed through readiness measurement in spina bifida and adherence support for adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease.从儿科向成人服务过渡是另一条线索，刊发过脊柱裂青少年过渡准备度测量与炎症性肠病少年治疗依从性支持研究。

History

• The journal was founded in 1997, and the National Library of Medicine record begins its coverage at volume one number one, dated spring of that year.该刊创刊于 1997 年，美国国家医学图书馆书目记录的收录起点为第 1 卷第 1 期，标注时间是当年春季。
• Publication began under a professional body, with Greycoat Publishing in London issuing the title for the Association of British Paediatric Nurses, the organisation of nurses working with sick children in Britain.创办即挂靠专业团体，伦敦的 Greycoat Publishing 替英国儿科护士协会（Association of British Paediatric Nurses）出版该刊，该协会由英国病儿护理人员组成。
• That society arrangement is still listed as the historic imprint, while the current record names SAGE Publications in London from 2002 onward, so the publisher has been unchanged since then.学会委出的旧记录作为历史出版项保留，现行记录则写明 2002 年起由伦敦的 SAGE Publications 出版，出版方此后未再变更。
• Volume numbering runs one volume per year, and Crossref deposits for 2024 to 2026 show issue numbers one to four inside each volume, matching the quarterly pattern in the library record.卷号按每年一卷推进，Crossref 在 2024 至 2026 年的登记显示每卷内含第 1 至 4 期，与书目记录的季刊形制相符。
• The catalogue title carries the explanatory subtitle for professionals working with children in the hospital and community, and MEDLINE indexes the title under the abbreviation J Child Health Care.目录题名带有面向医院与社区儿童工作者的说明性副题，MEDLINE 以 J Child Health Care 作为检索简称收录。
• Both MEDLINE and PubMed have listed the journal from its first issue with full indexing treatment rather than selected citations, so each published paper enters public abstracting.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 均自首期起收录该刊并采取全量标引而非选择性摘录，因此每期全部论文都进入公共检索。
• A third database, the International Nursing Index, covered the title only from spring 1997 to spring 2000, ending at volume four number one.第三个数据库 International Nursing Index 对该刊的覆盖止于第 4 卷第 1 期，区间为 1997 年春至 2000 年春。
• Clarivate lists the title in two citation editions at once, with nursing carried by both the science edition and the social science edition and paediatrics by the science edition alone.Clarivate 同时把该刊列入两个引文版别，护理学由科学版与社会科学版共同收录，儿科学只在科学版之内。
• Reported impact factors moved from 1.896 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2023, then 1.6 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025, with a 2025 Journal Citation Indicator of 0.66 at the 55.5 percentile.公布的影响因子从 2022 年的 1.896 回落到 2023 年的 1.3，随后升至 2024 年的 1.6 与 2025 年的 1.9，2025 年 Journal Citation Indicator 为 0.66，百分位 55.5。
• Output remains small, with 28 citable research items counted in the 2025 edition year against 1658 cumulative citations and a cited half life of 6.6 years.体量保持较小，2025 年版别年度计有 28 篇可引研究论文，累计被引 1658 次，被引半衰期 6.6 年。
• Crossref registers 98 current and 1228 backfile records under the print ISSN, and deposit peaks fell in 2013, 2018 and 2022 among the years tabulated.Crossref 以纸质 ISSN 登记 98 条当期记录与 1228 条过刊记录，登记量在近些年的高峰落在 2013 年，2018 年与 2022 年。
• The journal stayed subscription based rather than converted to full open access, while 47.29 percent of its 2025 output was made free to read, and it is not listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.该刊未转为完全开放获取而保持订阅制，2025 年产出中 47.29% 以金色开放获取形式免费可读，且未进入开放获取期刊目录。

Editors

• The nursing journal directory records Bernie Carter as editor of the title, a children's nurse turned academic at the University of Central Lancashire who wrote the short opening commentaries of earlier volumes护理期刊编辑名录登记的该刊主编是 Bernie Carter，他由儿童护士转为高校教师，任职于中央兰开夏大学（University of Central Lancashire），早年各期的开篇短评多出自其手。
• Ethical questions are often set by that opening commentary, the lead piece of volume 29 in 2025 coming from Kim Atkins with Leesa Wisby, who argued that self forgiveness restores professional integrity after clinical error.伦理议题常由开篇短评定调，第 29 卷 2025 年的首篇短评出自 Kim Atkins 与 Leesa Wisby 之手，主张自我宽恕可在临床差错后修复职业诚信。^[1]
• Editorial correspondence is handled from the publisher's London offices at 1 Olivers Yard on City Road, the address carried on every current issue imprint.编辑部通信由出版方位于伦敦 City Road 的 1 Olivers Yard 办公点处理，该地址印在现行各期的版权页上。
• Manuscripts enter through the ScholarOne submission site kept under the journal abbreviation rather than through an editor's personal inbox, and author instructions are posted with the publisher's journal pages.稿件经 ScholarOne 在线系统投递而不走编辑私人邮箱，作者指南挂在出版方的期刊页面之下。
• Papers are written and published in English, in keeping with a London base whose readership is drawn from English speaking paediatric practice around the world.论文以英语撰写与出版，这与其伦敦出版地的定位一致，读者来自全球英语世界的儿科实践群体。
• External peer review is the gate for research submissions, and the criterion stated in the aims is application across a variety of disciplines rather than methodological fashion.研究类稿件须过外部同行评议，选稿标准写在办刊宗旨里，即对多种学科均具应用价值，而非追逐方法时髦。
• Reviews are commissioned as well as submitted, and the evidence syntheses appearing in recent volumes are largely scoping reviews and systematic reviews written by multidisciplinary teams.综述类稿件既接受约稿也接受投稿，近年刊出的证据综合以范围综述和系统综述为主，作者多为跨专业团队。
• Qualitative interview work carries a visible share of each issue, much of it built on phenomenological analysis of what parents and bedside nurses report during acute admission.质性访谈研究在每期版面中占显眼份额，其中不少建立在对父母与床边护士急性住院经历的现象学分析之上。
• Editorial voice is exercised in short commentaries that press for better reporting, one such piece asking authors to state study design and population inside titles and abstracts编辑立场通过短评表达，2026 年刊出的一篇呼吁作者在题名与摘要中写明研究设计与研究人群。^[2]
• Citable content in the 2025 tabulation covers 35 entries, seven more than the research articles counted, the surplus taken up by editorials and commentary pieces.2025 年统计的可引内容共 35 项，比研究论文多出 7 篇，差额由社论与评论文章占据。
• Contributors reach the journal from high income and middle income health systems alike, with studies from Australia, South Africa, South Korea and the Palestinian territories sharing pages with British and continental European work.投稿者来自高收入与中等收入卫生体系，澳大利亚、南非与韩国以及巴勒斯坦地区的研究和英国及欧洲大陆的成果同期刊出。
• The title keeps a professionally useful rather than citation driven character, issuing editorials on trauma, nuclear risk and clinical honesty alongside instrument validation and service evaluation papers.期刊保持面向实践而非追逐引用的性格，社论谈创伤，核风险与临床诚信，同期也刊发量表效度验证与服务评估论文。