Journal of Perinatology

Journal of Perinatology is the official journal of the Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an official publication of the National Perinatal Association, published by Springer Nature.《Journal of Perinatology》是美国儿科学会新生儿与围产医学分会的机关刊，也是美国国家围产协会的正式出版物，由 Springer Nature 出版。

Its purpose is to give the perinatal and neonatal care team original information that improves maternal, fetal and newborn outcomes, rather than to report on pregnancy for its own sake.刊物的目的是给围产与新生儿医护团队提供能改善母体、胎儿与新生儿结局的原创信息，而不是为写妊娠而写妊娠。

The 2025 impact factor is 2.3, the five-year figure 2.6, and the title ranks 55th of 190 in pediatrics with 9,534 citations behind it.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年值 2.6，在儿科类 190 种刊里排第 55 位，名下累计被引 9,534 次。

Scope

• The remit runs from the womb to the nursery. Preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, preeclampsia and the management of labour all appear where they bear on the newborn.范围从子宫一直延伸到新生儿病房。早产、胎儿生长受限、子痫前期、产程处理，凡与新生儿相关的都在其中。

• Neonatal medicine is the centre of gravity: respiratory distress and bronchopulmonary dysplasia, necrotising enterocolitis, late-onset sepsis, hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and feeding in the very small.新生儿医学是重心，呼吸窘迫与支气管肺发育不良、坏死性小肠结肠炎、晚发型败血症、缺氧缺血性脑病，以及超小早产儿的喂养。

• Purely obstetric or gynaecological papers that carry little neonatal relevance are turned away, a filter that keeps the journal from becoming a general obstetrics title.与新生儿关系不大的纯产科或妇科稿子会被退掉，这道筛子防止刊物变成一本普通产科刊。

• Quality improvement is treated as research rather than administration. Projects are reported against the SQUIRE framework and are expected to state what changed and by how much.质量改进在这里算研究，不算行政工作。项目须按 SQUIRE 框架报告，并写明改了哪一环、改动了多少。

• Clinical research articles carry a structured abstract of no more than 150 words, a body of 25 pages including tables and figures, five of those, and 50 references.临床研究论文附不超过 150 词的结构化摘要，正文连同图表与参考文献不超过 25 页，图表 5 个，参考文献 50 条。

• Review articles reach 4,500 words and 100 references and are normally commissioned, which is the journal's way of controlling what it summarises.综述可到 4,500 词、100 条参考文献，通常由编辑部约稿，刊物借此把控所综述的内容。

• Perspectives allow 2,500 words with an unstructured abstract and two tables or figures, a format for arguing a position on how care is organised.观点文章 2,500 词，附非结构化摘要，图表 2 个，用于就诊疗组织方式立论。

• Brief communications stop at 750 words with a single table or figure and five references, and correspondence at 500 words, with six months in which to write it.简报上限 750 词，图表 1 个、参考文献 5 条，通讯上限 500 词，且须在半年内写出。
• Comments and editorials are normally commissioned at 1,000 words with one table and ten references, and they are the slot where policy and professional argument live.评论与社论通常约稿，1,000 词、1 张表、10 条参考文献，政策与行业之争就落在这一栏。
• Professional, political, administrative and educational aspects of the specialty are named in the aims, so a piece on staffing ratios or training requirements is inside the remit.宗旨点名收录本学科的专业、政治、行政与教育层面，人员配比或培训要求的稿子因此算在范围之内。
• Legal and ethical questions have a standing place, which in this field means decisions about resuscitation at the limit of viability and the consent that surrounds them.法律与伦理问题长期占位，落到本领域的题目上，就是存活极限处的复苏决定，以及围绕它的知情同意。
• Neonatal technology and product development are named as a subject, so device reports and bench-to-cotside work are read as part of the specialty rather than as commerce.新生儿技术与产品开发被列为选题，器械报告与从实验台走到暖箱旁的研究因此算学科的一部分，不算生意。
• The audience is written out in full: neonatologists, perinatologists, paediatricians, obstetricians, surgeons, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and social workers.读者名单写得完整，新生儿科与围产科医师、儿科医师、产科医师、外科医师、护士、呼吸治疗师、药师、社会工作者都在列。
• Dieticians, speech and hearing specialists, radiologists and pathologists complete the list, a roster that explains why a feeding paper and an imaging paper can share an issue.营养师、言语与听力专家、放射科与病理科医师补全名单，这份名册也解释了为什么一篇喂养研究与一篇影像研究能同期刊出。
• Journal Club is run jointly with the AAP section and EBNEO, and a trainee writes the piece with a mentor, at 1,500 words with one table or figure and 15 references.期刊俱乐部与美国儿科学会分会及 EBNEO 合办，由学员在导师带领下撰写，1,500 词、1 个图表、15 条参考文献。

History

• The first volume is dated 1984, printed in Philadelphia by W.B. Saunders, and the California Perinatal Association was the body it answered to in those years.第 1 卷署 1984 年，由 W.B. Saunders 在费城印行，那几年它挂靠的机构是加州围产协会（California Perinatal Association）。
• California's association did not keep the title. By 2001 the imprint had moved to New York under Nature Publishing Group, which is the line that leads to Springer Nature today.加州那家协会并没有留住这本刊。到 2001 年，出版地记录已转到纽约，出版方是 Nature Publishing Group，这条线一直通到今天的 Springer Nature。
• Monthly publication dates from 2004. Before that the journal appeared less often, and the change is recorded in the library file rather than in the journal's own pages.月刊自 2004 年起。此前出刊频率更低，这一变化记在图书馆档案里，刊物自己的页面不载。
• Twelve issues make a volume, and volume 45 covers 2025 while volume 46 covers 2026. A supplement was added to volume 43 and volume 44 skipped a fourth issue.一卷 12 期，第 45 卷对应 2025 年，第 46 卷对应 2026 年。第 43 卷另出过一期增刊，第 44 卷则缺了第 4 期。
• MEDLINE and PubMed begin at volume 7, number 1, in 1987, three years after the founding volume, and Index Medicus covered it in the same period.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 从 1987 年的第 7 卷第 1 期开始，比创刊卷晚三年，Index Medicus 在同一时期收录。
• Five impact factors read 2.521, 3.225, 2.4, 2.4 and 2.3. The drop came in 2023, and the two filings after it have held level.五个影响因子依次是 2.521、3.225、2.4、2.4、2.3。下滑出现在 2023 年，此后两次统计持平。
• The 2025 file puts it at the 71.3rd percentile of pediatrics, with a JCI of 0.94, 222 articles in the year and a cited half-life of 7.4 years.2025 年的表把它放在儿科类的 71.3 百分位，JCI 0.94，当年 222 篇文章，被引半衰期 7.4 年。
• A second category listing exists alongside the first: the journal is also ranked in obstetrics and gynaecology, 60th of 143, because so much of what it prints sits on that boundary.除主类目之外还有第二个类目，刊物同时在妇产科类排第 60 位（共 143 种），因为它登的许多内容正落在这条界线上。
• Gold open access covers 24.94 percent of the file, close to a quarter, and the article processing charge is 3,190 pounds, 5,090 dollars or 4,090 euros.金色开放获取占全部文章的 24.94%，接近四分之一，文章处理费为 3,190 英镑、5,090 美元或 4,090 欧元。
• Throughput is quick by specialist standards. The median time to a first editorial decision is five days, and acceptance comes at 132 days.按专科刊的标准，流程算快。到首次编辑决定的中位时间 5 天，到录用 132 天。
• The journal was read 1,606,106 times in 2025 through the platform's downloads, and its output drew 1,825 mentions in the Altmetric record.2025 年经平台下载的全文有 1,606,106 次，所刊内容在 Altmetric 记录里被提及 1,825 次。
• Indexing reaches further than the usual core. BIOBASE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, MEDLARS and Scopus all cover it, plus a paediatrics index kept by title.收录范围超出常见的核心库，BIOBASE、EMBASE、CINAHL、Cambridge Scientific Abstracts、MEDLARS 与 Scopus 都收，另有一部按刊名累积的儿科学索引。

Editors

• Patrick G. Gallagher holds the editor-in-chief post, moving to it in 2019 from Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University, where his work sits in neonatal medicine.主编是 Patrick G. Gallagher，2019 年从全国儿童医院与俄亥俄州立大学转到这个位置，他的研究立在新生儿医学里。
• Tonse N.K. Raju has been deputy editor since 2020, and he is a neonatal paediatrician whose work sits on the same clinical ground as the journal.Tonse N.K. Raju 自 2020 年起任副主编，他本人是新生儿科医师，研究就落在这本刊所在的临床地面上。
• Six associate editors cover the ground, Laura Goetzl, Francis Mimouni, Stephen Pearlman, Rita Ryan, Renate Savich and Sarah N. Taylor, each attached to a part of the remit.六位副编辑分管各片，Laura Goetzl、Francis Mimouni、Stephen Pearlman、Rita Ryan、Renate Savich 与 Sarah N. Taylor 各认一块。
• Long tenures give the masthead a memory: Pearlman has held the quality improvement desk since 2014, Ryan since 2019, and Goetzl and Savich arrived in 2022.任期本身给刊头留下一份记忆，Pearlman 从 2014 年起守质量改进一栏，Ryan 自 2019 年，Goetzl 与 Savich 则是在 2022 年加入。
• Two editors emeriti stay on the masthead, Edward E. Lawson and Gilbert I. Martin, so the line of succession is visible to anyone who looks.两位名誉编辑仍留在刊头，Edward E. Lawson 与 Gilbert I. Martin，谁看都一眼能读出这条传承线。
• A board of about 42 members sits underneath, drawn from children's hospitals and university divisions across the United States and a number of other countries.其下是约 42 人的编委会，成员来自美国各地及其他若干国家的儿童医院与大学科室。
• A manuscript is checked by the editorial office first and then triaged by an editor. Work judged out of remit is declined at that stage without review.稿件先在编辑部过一道形式检查，再由编辑分诊。判定不属于范围的稿子在这一步直接退回，不送外审。
• Referees are given 14 days, and the journal states that it seeks at least one independent reviewer, often two or more, depending on the paper.审稿人有 14 天期限，刊方写明每稿至少请一位独立审稿人，视稿件情况常常是两位以上。
• Referee identity is not disclosed to authors unless the referee agrees to it, which makes the default a single-blind arrangement with an opening for the other way.除审稿人本人同意，其身份不向作者透露，因此默认是单盲，同时留了一扇朝另一方向开的门。
• Decisions come as accept, accept in principle, or minor and major revision, and a revised paper is given a six-month window before the file closes.决定分为接受、原则接受、小修与大修，修回稿有六个月期限，过了期限稿件就关闭。
• Journal Club has two named contacts, Viral Jain and Matthew Rysavy, and every piece carries a trainee as first author with a mentor behind the work.期刊俱乐部有两位指定联系人，Viral Jain 与 Matthew Rysavy，每篇都由学员任第一作者，背后有导师把关。