Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (commonly abbreviated as Pediatr. Crit. Care Med.) is a peer-reviewed paediatric critical care journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, issued monthly. Founded in 2000, it was the first scientific peer-reviewed publication devoted exclusively to paediatric critical care medicine and critical care neonatology, and it became fully digital in 2025.《儿科重症监护医学》（Pediatric Critical Care Medicine，常用缩写为 Pediatr. Crit. Care Med.）是一份由 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 出版的儿科重症监护同行评审学术期刊，月刊。该刊创刊于 2000 年，是首份专门聚焦儿科重症监护医学与新生儿重症监护的科学同行评审刊物，自 2025 年起转为完全数字化出版。

Scope

The journal's editorial stance takes the whole critical care team as its readership, requiring that a paper be actionable for paediatricians, neonatologists, respiratory therapists, nurses and the other practitioners who jointly care for critically ill and injured children, rather than addressing a single profession alone. The journal also stresses international scope, with board members and contributors drawn from around the world. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的取稿立场是「以整个重症监护团队为读者」，即要求论文须对儿科医师、新生儿科医师、呼吸治疗师、护士等共同参与儿科危重患儿救治的各类从业者具备可操作性，而非仅面向单一专业。刊物同时强调国际视野，编委与作者来自世界各地。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Critical care clinical research: recognition, monitoring and organ support in critically ill children and neonates.重症监护临床研究： 儿童与新生儿危重症的识别、监测与器官支持治疗。
• Trauma and brain injury: intensive management and outcomes in severe paediatric trauma and traumatic brain injury.创伤与脑损伤： 儿童严重创伤与创伤性脑损伤的重症管理与结局。
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and post-arrest care: treatment pathways for paediatric cardiac arrest, targeted temperature management and post-arrest brain protection.心肺复苏与复苏后管理： 儿童心脏骤停的救治流程、目标温度管理与复苏后脑保护。
• Sedation, analgesia and nutrition: goal setting for sedation, analgesic regimens, and nutritional support for critically ill children.镇静、镇痛与营养： 镇静目标设定、镇痛方案与重症患儿的营养支持。
• Implementation science and quality improvement: the application of implementation science methods to quality improvement and the spread of practice in critical care.实施科学与质量改进： 实施科学方法在重症监护质量改进与流程推广中的应用。

The journal is a hybrid title. The subscription route charges authors nothing, while open access carries an article processing charge. The publisher publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for this title, and the library's previous notes of relatively easy acceptance and an average of three to eight weeks had no official basis and have been deleted. The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and carries a 2025 impact factor of 4.9.该刊属混合出版模式：订阅路线不向作者收费，选择开放获取需支付文章处理费。出版方不公布该刊录用比例与审稿时长，库内原记录用率「相对容易」与审稿「平均，3 至 8 周」均无官方依据，已删除。该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，2025 年影响因子 4.9。

History

• Founding (2000): the journal was founded in 2000 as the first scientific peer-reviewed publication devoted exclusively to paediatric critical care medicine and critical care neonatology. The founding title is the current one, with no predecessor.创刊（2000年）： 本刊创刊于 2000 年，是首份专门聚焦儿科重症监护医学与重症新生儿监护的科学同行评审刊物；创刊刊名即为现名，无前身刊。^[1]
• Society affiliation: the journal is the official title of five societies jointly, namely the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, the Pediatric Intensive Care Society UK, the Latin American Society of Pediatric Intensive Care and the Japanese Society of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care, a multi-society arrangement unusual among paediatric specialty journals.学会归属： 本刊为五个学会的共同官方刊物，包括美国重症医学会、世界儿科重症与监护学会联合会、英国儿科重症学会、拉丁美洲儿科重症学会与日本儿科重症与监护学会；这一多学会共同主办的格局在儿科专科刊物中少见。^[1]
• Current editor: Robert C. Tasker serves as editor, a paediatric intensivist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, his editorship consistent across the publisher's records and the society's annual report. The library's previously missing editor field has been filled in from the official page.现任主编： 罗伯特·塔斯克（Robert C. Tasker）任主编，为波士顿儿童医院与哈佛医学院儿科重症医师；其主编身份在出版方与学会年报中一致。库内原缺编辑字段，已按官方页补入。^[1]
• Full digitisation (2025): from volume 26 in 2025 the journal became fully digital and no longer issues a print edition. Its sections were adjusted at the same time, with the former Editor's Choices folded into Feature Articles and the former Special Articles renamed Conference Report and Expert Panel.完全数字化（2025年）： 该刊自 2025 年第 26 卷起转为完全数字化出版，不再发行印刷版；同期栏目作出调整，原「编辑之选」并入特色文章，原「专题文章」改为「会议报告与专家小组」。^[2]
• Metric trend: the 2025 impact factor of 4.9 ranks twelfth in critical care medicine and ninth in paediatrics, its CiteScore consistent with that standing in the field.指标走势： 影响因子自 2025 年的 4.9，在重症医学类排名第十二位、儿科学类排名第九位；引用分数与其在该领域的排名相符。^[1]
• Multilingual dissemination: the journal runs translated sections of selected articles in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish, allowing advances in the field to reach paediatric and neonatal intensive care practitioners worldwide.多语种传播： 该刊另设中文、法文、意大利文、日文、葡萄牙文与西班牙文的精选论文译文栏目，使领域进展得以向全球儿科与新生儿重症从业者传播。^[1]

Editors

The journal operates under a single editor appointed jointly by the five sponsoring societies, with manuscripts submitted through the publisher's own submission system. The publisher publishes no editorial process detail beyond the journal's positioning, and the composition of the editorial office is taken from the masthead.本刊实行主编负责制，主编由五个主办学会共同任命并主持编辑部；稿件经出版方自有的投稿系统投递。官方不公布除期刊定位之外的编辑流程细节，编辑部构成以刊头署名为准。

• Robert C. Tasker (current editor): a paediatric intensivist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, a member of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, his editorship consistent across the publisher's records and the society's annual report.罗伯特·塔斯克（现任主编）： 波士顿儿童医院与哈佛医学院儿科重症医师，英国皇家内科医师学会与英国皇家儿科医学院会员；其主编身份在出版方与学会年报中一致。^[1]
• Section adjustments (2025): on becoming fully digital the journal dropped its Editor's Choices section, with all Feature Articles now counting as the editor's choices, and renamed its former Special Articles as Conference Report and Expert Panel, reflecting the shift from print sections to digital ones.栏目调整（2025年）： 转完全数字化之际，该刊取消「编辑之选」栏目，改为全部特色文章即主编选择；原「专题文章」更名为「会议报告与专家小组」，反映其从印刷栏目向数字化栏目的转型。^[2]
• Readership: the journal describes itself as written for the entire critical care team, including paediatricians, neonatologists, respiratory therapists, nurses and others dealing with critically ill or injured paediatric patients, a composition that obliges its content to be actionable across professions.读者定位： 刊物自述面向整个重症监护团队，包括儿科医师、新生儿科医师、呼吸治疗师、护士以及其他救治危重与受伤儿科患者的人员，这一构成决定了其内容须兼顾各类从业者的可操作性。^[1]
• Acceptance and speed: the publisher publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for this title. The library's previous notes of relatively easy acceptance and an average of three to eight weeks had no official basis and have been deleted.录用与时效： 出版方不公布该刊录用率与审稿时长；库内原记录用率「相对容易」与审稿「平均，3 至 8 周」均无官方依据，已删除。^[1]
• Standing in the field: the first specialty journal in paediatric critical care and critical care neonatology, its clinical research is cited directly in relevant guidelines, and together with the other critical care titles in the field it forms the publication base of paediatric critical care.学科地位： 该刊是儿科重症监护与重症新生儿监护方向的首份专科刊物，其临床研究常被相关指南直接引用，与该领域其他重症医学刊物共同构成儿科重症监护的发表底座。^[1]