The Journal of Pediatric Surgery is the official journal of five surgical societies at once. The surgical section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons share one title.《Journal of Pediatric Surgery》同时是五家外科学会的会刊。美国儿科学会外科分会、英国儿科外科医师协会、美国儿科外科医师协会、加拿大儿科外科医师协会与太平洋儿科外科医师协会，共用这一本刊。
The stated purpose is a reference source rather than a news sheet. The journal presents original contributions together with an international abstracts section and other standing departments.宗旨写的是做参考源，不做快报。刊物收原创论文，同时保留一个国际文摘栏与若干常设栏目。
The terms of the remit are clinical and human. Improving the surgical care of infants and children through physiology, pathology and operative technique, and through attention to the emotional and physical needs of the young patient.范围的说法是临床的、关于人的。从生理、病理与手术技术三方面改进婴幼儿与儿童的外科治疗，也照顾年幼病人在情绪与身体上的需要。
The abstracts section is not decoration. Volume 1 in 1966 carried it, running from page 88 to page 114 of the first issue, and most of those entries are one page long.文摘栏不是装饰。1966 年的第 1 卷就带着它，在第 1 期从第 88 页排到第 114 页，其中多数条目只有一页。
Original articles are the bulk of what is printed. A hundred recent deposits average 8.5 authors, and the largest carries 42 names.原创论文是印出来的主体。最近一百条存档平均 8.5 位作者，署名最多的一篇有 42 个名字。
Length is not a filter. Volume 1 alone printed papers from page 1 and ran to page 114, and the modern volumes still carry long operative series.篇幅不是筛子。仅第 1 卷就从第 1 页排到第 114 页，如今的各卷照样登长篇手术系列。
Case reports are routed elsewhere by size. Studies with five patients or fewer go to the open access companion title, Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports.病例报告按体量分流。五个病人以下的研究送往开放获取的姊妹刊《Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports》。
A second sister title takes the middle ground. Journal of Pediatric Surgery Open publishes articles and case series with more than five patients, which leaves the parent journal the larger series.还有第二本姊妹刊占中间地带。《Journal of Pediatric Surgery Open》登论文与超过五个病人的病例系列，母刊因此留下的是更大的系列。
Trauma, oncology and neonatal surgery are the three poles the contents circle. Neuroblastoma, Hirschsprung's disease and congenital diaphragmatic hernia have been in the journal since the 1960s and are still there.创伤、肿瘤与新生儿外科是内容绕着转的三极。神经母细胞瘤、先天性巨结肠与先天性膈疝从 1960 年代就在刊里，如今还在。
Outcomes work is a large share. Registry studies and multicentre series appear alongside single-institution reviews, and the citation half-life of 10.9 years is what that mix produces.结局研究占很大一份。登记研究、多中心系列与单中心回顾并排出现，10.9 年的被引半衰期就是这个组合的结果。
The regional societies bring regional papers. British, Canadian and Pacific authors publish in the same pages as American ones, and the abstracts section exists partly to keep the others visible.地区学会带来地区的稿子。英国、加拿大与太平洋地区的作者同美国作者登在同一批页面上，文摘栏部分就是为了让别处的工作被看见。
Nothing is published without a clinical consequence in view. A paper on a new anastomotic technique and a paper on how parents are told about a complication sit in the same volume, because the remit names both.没有一项发表是不带临床后果的。一篇讲新吻合技术的论文，与一篇讲如何向家长告知并发症的论文，登在同一卷，因为范围把两头都写进去了。
Five societies in one journal means five meetings feed it. Papers read at an annual meeting reach print here, and the meeting calendar shapes the volume calendar more than the editorial board does.五家学会一本刊，意味着五个年会往里供稿。在年会上宣读的论文在这里落成纸面，卷期节奏受会议日历的影响比受编委会的影响大。
History
The first volume is dated 1966. The National Library of Medicine begins its coverage at volume 1, issue 3 in June of that year, and the imprint in those years was New York.第 1 卷标的是 1966 年。美国国家医学图书馆的收录从当年 6 月的第 1 卷第 3 期起，那几年的出版地写的是纽约。
It was the first paediatric surgery journal with an international readership, and the field was young enough that a journal could define it.它是第一本拥有国际读者的儿科外科刊物，那个学科当时还年轻，一本刊足以替它划定边界。
The founding editor was C. Everett Koop, who later became Surgeon General of the United States. He took the post at the journal's launch and edited it in the years when paediatric surgery was still establishing itself as a specialty.创刊主编是 C. Everett Koop，此人后来出任美国卫生总监。他在刊物创办时接任，主持的那些年正是儿科外科还在确立自身专科地位的时期。
Chinese accounts of the specialty credit a second name. Steven Gans, the laparoscopic pioneer and first president of the Pacific association, is described as founding the title with Koop's backing and editing it until his death in 1993.中文的学科史里还记着第二个名字。腹腔镜先驱、太平洋学会首任主席 Steven Gans，被写作在 Koop 支持下创办了这本刊，并主持到 1993 年去世。
Monthly publication was not the original rhythm. The library record dates monthly issues from 1986, which means the journal spent its first two decades on a slower cycle.月刊不是一开始的节奏。图书馆记录把月刊起点记在 1986 年，也就是说头二十年这本刊走的是更慢的周期。
Sixty-one volumes had been closed by 2026. Volume 61 covers that year in twelve issues, and volume 62 has already deposited its first issue for 2027.到 2026 年已经出满六十一卷。第 61 卷以十二期覆盖这一年，第 62 卷 2027 年的第 1 期已经存进数据库。
The archive is deep and machine-readable. Crossref holds 37,386 records for the title, from the 1966 issues to the advance papers of the current year.存档又深又能机读。Crossref 为这本刊存着 37,386 条记录，从 1966 年的各期到当年的预发表文章。
Advance publication is now part of the flow. Twenty-four of the hundred most recent deposits have no volume assigned yet, and they will be gathered into a printed issue later.预发表已经进了流程。最近一百条存档里有 24 条还没分卷，日后会被收进某一期。
W. B. Saunders published it for most of its life, and the imprint became part of Elsevier. The editorial address still reads 1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Philadelphia, which is a Saunders address.大半辈子由 W. B. Saunders 出版，这家出版方后来并入 Elsevier。编辑部地址仍写着费城约翰·肯尼迪大道 1600 号，那是 Saunders 的老地址。
MEDLINE covered it from the third issue of the first volume, in full rather than selectively, and Index Medicus carried it as well. Few journals of that age have an unbroken indexing run.MEDLINE 从第 1 卷第 3 期起就全量收录，不是选摘，《医学索引》也收。那个年代的刊物能有一段不断的收录史，并不多。
The ranking is second quartile in both of its categories. In the 2025 file the journal sits at 55 of 190 in pediatrics and 105 of 321 in surgery, with a journal impact factor of 2.3.排名在两个类目里都是第二区。2025 年那份表里，刊物在儿科 190 种中排第 55，在外科 321 种中排第 105，影响因子 2.3。
The five-year figure matches the annual one at 2.3, and the cited half-life is 10.9 years. That combination is the signature of a clinical archive rather than a fast journal.五年值与年值同为 2.3，被引半衰期 10.9 年。这个组合是临床存档型刊物的签名，不是快刊的签名。
Citation volume is very large for the field. The file counts 18,832 citations to 392 articles, and the immediacy index of 0.6 is respectable for a title that lives on long series.以这个领域论，被引体量很大。表里数到 18,832 次引用对 392 篇文章，即年指标 0.6，对一本靠长系列吃饭的刊物来说算体面。
Open access is available but not the norm. The gold share is 13.22 percent, which is what a hybrid title looks like when its authors are mostly surgeons paying from departmental funds.开放获取可选，不是常态。金色占比 13.22%，作者多是拿科室经费出钱的外科医生，混合型刊物的样子就是这样。
The society relationship has a price list. APSA members may subscribe at 85 dollars for print and electronic or 70 dollars for electronic only, and the association no longer collects the money.学会关系有价目表。APSA 会员可订纸本加电子版 85 美元，或只订电子版 70 美元，学会已经不再代收这笔钱。
Subscriptions are not what holds the arrangement together. APSA states that a subscription is not required to remain a member, which makes the journal an affiliation rather than a benefit.撑住这层关系的不是订阅。APSA 明说订阅不是保留会籍的条件，于是这本刊更近于一种归属，而不是一项会员福利。
Editors
Five societies appoint to one masthead. A British, a Canadian and a Pacific readership each want their cases represented, and the editors have to keep the balance without saying so in print.五家学会往同一张名单上派人。英国、加拿大与太平洋三处的读者都想让自己的病例被代表，编辑得维持平衡，又不能在纸上说出来。
The editorial office is in Philadelphia. Correspondence goes to 1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, which is the publisher's building rather than a hospital department.编辑部在费城。通信寄往约翰·肯尼迪大道 1600 号，那是出版方的大楼，不是某个医院的科室。
Submissions run through Elsevier's editorial manager system, and the publisher invoices subscriptions directly. The society owns the editorial line and the publisher owns the machinery.投稿走 Elsevier 的编辑管理系统，订阅费由出版方直接开票。学会掌握编辑方向，出版方掌握机器。
Case routing is an editorial decision made on patient counts. Five or fewer goes to the case reports title, more than five may stay, and the number is applied before review rather than after.病例分流是拿病人数做的编辑决定。五个及以下转去病例报告刊，超过五个可以留下，这个数在评审之前就用上了，不是评审之后。
The abstracts section needs its own readers. A one-page summary of a Japanese or European paper has no methods to check, and someone has to judge whether the finding is worth carrying to an English readership.文摘栏要自己的读者。一页的日本或欧洲论文摘要没有方法可查，得有人判断这条发现在英语读者那里值不值得转。
Trauma and oncology papers carry weight beyond their citation counts. A paper on a rare tumour will be cited little and read closely, and the editors know which of the two they are choosing.创伤与肿瘤论文的分量超出引用数。一篇罕见肿瘤的论文引用不会多，却会被细读，编辑清楚自己在两种之间选哪一种。
Multicentre series need referees from more than one country. A registry paper with forty authors cannot be checked by a single institution's view, and the board is chosen with that in mind.多中心系列要不止一个国家的审稿人。四十位作者的登记研究，靠一家的视角查不实，编委会挑人时想着这一层。
The journal has outlived its founding editor by three decades and kept the shape he gave it. Long series, an abstracts section and meeting papers remain the three things it publishes.创办人走了三十多年，刊物还在，形状仍是他给的那个。长系列、文摘栏与会议论文，仍是它登的三样东西。
Nobody is paid for the editorial work. The editors are practising paediatric surgeons, the reviews happen at night, and the calibre of the journal rests on that unpaid hour.编辑的活儿没有报酬。编辑都是仍在执业的儿科外科医生，审稿发生在夜里，刊物的水准立在这些不给钱的钟点上。
A five-society title has five constituencies to answer to. When a paper divides the British and the American practice, the editor cannot settle it by seniority, because there is no senior society.五家学会的刊物要向五个圈子交代。一篇稿子让英国与美国两边的做法对立时，编辑没法按资历定夺，因为没有哪家学会更资深。