Pediatric Research

Pediatric Research (commonly abbreviated as ''Pediatr. Res.') is a translational research journal in paediatrics published by Springer Nature. It is the joint official journal of the American Pediatric Society, the European Society for Paediatric Research and the Society for Pediatric Research. Founded in January 1967, it recorded a 2025 impact factor of 3.3.Pediatric Research（常用缩写 Pediatr. Res.）是儿科领域的转化研究期刊，由 Springer Nature 出版，是美国儿科学会、欧洲儿科研究会与儿科研究学会的共同机关刊，1967 年 1 月创刊，2025 年影响因子为 3.3。^[1]

Scope

Disciplinary focus: the journal publishes original translational research papers, invited reviews and commentaries on the causes and treatment of childhood disease and on disorders of development, with the research chain running from basic science through to epidemiology and quality improvement. Its readership consists of researchers, clinicians and trainees across the paediatric subspecialties.学科定位：期刊刊发原创转化研究论文、约稿综述与评论，讨论儿童疾病的病因与治疗以及发育障碍，研究链条从基础科学一直延伸到流行病学与质量改进，读者是儿科各亚专科的研究者、临床医生与培养中的儿科医师。
Subject coverage: the areas listed officially include adolescent medicine, allergy, anaesthesia, cardiology and cardiometabolic disorders, critical care, developmental biology, endocrinology, environmental health, epidemiology, fetus and pregnancy, gastroenterology, genetics and epigenetics, haematology, hyperbilirubinaemia, immunology, inborn errors of metabolism, infectious disease, Kawasaki disease, the microbiome, neonatal neurology, neonatology, nephrology, neuroimaging, neurology, nutrition, obesity, oncology, patient safety, pharmacology, precision medicine, public health, pulmonology, quality improvement, regenerative biology, stem cells, substance abuse and toxicology, alongside newer directions such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioethics and palliative care, global health, health equity, and diversity and inclusion.选题范围：官方列出的领域包括青少年医学、过敏、麻醉、心血管与心代谢疾病、重症医学、发育生物学、内分泌、环境健康、流行病学、胎儿与妊娠、胃肠、遗传与表观遗传、血液、胆红素、免疫、罕见代谢病、传染病、川崎病、微生物组、新生儿神经病学、新生儿学、肾脏病、神经影像、神经病学、营养、肥胖、肿瘤、患者安全、药理学、精准医学、公共卫生、肺病、质量改进、再生生物学、干细胞、成瘾与毒理学等，另设人工智能与机器学习、生物伦理与姑息照护、全球健康、健康公平、多样性与包容等较新的方向。
Content types and methods: the journal carries clinical research articles, reviews, commentaries, editorials, special articles, correspondence and short features. Work using model organisms and in vitro techniques relevant to developmental biology and medicine is accepted, as is translational human research.体裁与方法：期刊设有临床研究、综述、评论、社论、专论、通讯与专栏短文等体裁，接受与发育生物学和医学相关的模式生物与体外技术研究，也接受转化性人体研究。
Open access and charges: the journal is not fully open access but hybrid, resting on a subscription base with a paid immediate open-access option for authors. No manuscript submission fee is charged. Standard papers are charged 76 US dollars per page, colour figures cost 711 US dollars for the first figure and 109 US dollars for every additional one, open-access articles are exempt from page charges, and since 2020 members of the three partner societies have their colour charges waived.开放获取与费用：本刊并非完全开放获取，而是以订阅为基础、作者可另行付费选择立即开放的混合模式，不收稿件处理费，常规稿件按每页 76 美元收取版面费，彩色图片另按首图 711 美元、每增一图 109 美元计费，付费开放获取的文章免收版面费，且自 2020 年起三个机关学会的在会会员可免收彩色图片费用。
Copyright and archiving: the International Pediatric Research Foundation does not require authors of original research papers to assign copyright. Authors grant it an exclusive licence to publish in return for the right to reuse their papers in future printed work of their own, and they are encouraged to deposit the accepted manuscript in an institutional repository or on a personal website six months after publication. Archive content becomes freely available one year after it appears.版权与存档：国际儿科研究基金会不要求原创研究论文的作者转让版权，作者授予其独家出版许可，以此换取日后重印自有论文的权利，并获鼓励在发表六个月后把作者稿存入机构知识库或个人主页，过刊内容在发表满一年后转为免费开放。

History

Founding and predecessor: the first volume appeared in January 1967. The title grew out of Annales paediatrici, the organ of the Swiss Society of Paediatrics. From 1967 to 1971 it was published by Karger in Basel, and from 1972 the Baltimore firm Williams and Wilkins took over.创刊与前身：期刊于 1967 年 1 月出第一卷，其前身为瑞士儿科学会的机关刊物 Annales paediatrici，1967 至 1971 年由瑞士巴塞尔的卡尔格出版社刊行，1972 年起改由巴尔的摩的威廉姆斯与威尔金斯公司承接。
Publisher changes: from 1972 to 1999 the journal was issued by Williams and Wilkins of Baltimore, was absorbed around 2000 by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, and then passed into the Wolters Kluwer system.出版方变迁： 1972 至 1999 年由威廉姆斯与威尔金斯公司发行，其后并入利珀科特威廉姆斯与威尔金斯，再归入 沃特斯·克鲁沃（Wolters Kluwer）系统。
Transfer to Nature: the official record of the International ISSN Centre shows the journal passing from Wolters Kluwer to Nature Publishing Group with effect from 1 January 2012. In 2015 Nature Publishing Group merged with the Springer Science and Business Media Group, and the title is now published under the Springer Nature name.转入自然出版集团：国际标准连续出版物号的官方记录显示，出版权于 2012 年 1 月 1 日由 沃特斯·克鲁沃（Wolters Kluwer）正式移交自然出版集团，2015 年自然出版集团与施普林格科学与商业出版集团合并，本刊今日以 Springer Nature 名义出版。
Change in frequency: the first four years came out bimonthly, monthly from 1971 to 2009, and from 2010 the journal returned to six issues a year. Each volume now carries a set of numbered issues together with several supplements.刊期演变：创刊头四年为双月刊，1971 至 2009 年改为月刊，2010 年起回到每年六期的格局，如今每卷分为若干期并另附若干增刊。
Editorial structure: the journal is published for the International Pediatric Research Foundation in Baltimore, and editorial work is shared with the boards of all three partner societies. Beneath the editor-in-chief sit an associate editor-in-chief, section editors, statistical reviewers and a large body of associate editors.编务结构：期刊由设于巴尔的摩的国际儿科研究基金会承办，编辑事务由来自三个机关学会的编委共同参与，主编之下设有副主编、栏目编辑、统计审稿人与大批副编辑等层级。
Streamlined workflow: from 1 February 2024 the journal adopted a streamlined new submission workflow. The editorial office also runs a podcast and a junior social media editor programme, and devotes a themed annual review issue to a different topic each year.流程改革：自 2024 年 2 月 1 日起期刊启用精简后的新投稿流程，编辑部另办播客节目并设立初级社交媒体编辑计划，同时每年以一个专题组织年度综述专号。^[2]

Editors

Editors-in-chief: the journal is led by Cynthia F. Bearer MD, PhD of Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, with Eleanor Molloy MB, PhD of Trinity College Dublin as associate editor-in-chief.主编：现任主编为 Cynthia F. Bearer 医学博士与哲学博士，任职于克利夫兰的彩虹婴儿与儿童医院，副主编为都柏林圣三一学院的 Eleanor Molloy 医学与哲学博士。
Size of the team: alongside the two editors-in-chief the office has a social media editor and a managing editor. Thirty-nine section editors take charge of areas such as neonatology, nephrology, oncology and perinatology, two statistical referees guard the methodology, and more than fifty associate editors drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa handle initial assessment.团队规模：除上述二人外，编辑部另设社交媒体编辑与执行编辑，栏目编辑三十九位分掌新生儿学、肾脏病、肿瘤与围产医学等方向，并配两名统计审稿人把关方法学，另有五十余位来自欧洲、美洲、亚洲与非洲的副编辑承担初审。
Society governance: the council of the International Pediatric Research Foundation is made up of officers of the three partner societies, among them the president of the European Society for Paediatric Research, the treasurer of the American Pediatric Society and of the Society for Pediatric Research, and several further directors. Major editorial policies are therefore set jointly by the three societies.学会治理：国际儿科研究基金会的理事会由三个机关学会的任职者组成，其中包括欧洲儿科研究会的主席、美国儿科学会与儿科研究学会的财务主管以及多位理事，期刊的重大编辑方针因此由三个学会共同决定。
Submission system: manuscripts are lodged through the publisher's online submission and tracking system. Since February 2024 the office has worked to the streamlined workflow and publishes its expectations for each stage of manuscript handling.投稿系统：稿件通过出版方的在线投稿与稿件追踪系统递交，编辑部自 2024 年 2 月起改用精简流程，并对外公布稿件处理各环节的时限要求。
Metrics: the 2025 impact factor is 3.3, the five-year impact factor 3.8 and the CiteScore 7.2. Papers are indexed by Crossref, PubMed, Scopus and the Web of Science core collection, and the journal stands near the top of the first quartile in paediatrics.指标： 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子 3.8，CiteScore 为 7.2，论文被 Crossref、PubMed、Scopus 与 Web of Science 核心合集收录，在儿科学类期刊中稳居第一四分位的前列。^[3]

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