The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is an independent, internationally oriented monthly journal of paediatrics and adolescent medicine published by Elsevier as part of The Lancet group, launched in September 2017, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 13.4《柳叶刀·儿童与青少年健康》（The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health）是（Elsevier）旗下（The Lancet）系列于 2017 年 9 月创刊的独立月刊，聚焦儿科学与青少年医学，秉持国际视野，2025 年影响因子为 13.4。

Scope

• The journal has an international perspective and a strong clinical focus, presenting influential and innovative practice-changing original research该刊兼具国际视野与临床导向，发表具有影响力与创新性、能改变实践的原创研究。
• It also publishes authoritative reviews and insightful opinion pieces to promote the health of the whole child, from the fetal period through to young adulthood亦刊载权威综述与富有见地的评论文章，促进从胎儿期到青年期的儿童整体健康。^[1]
• It is dedicated to publishing original research that advocates change in, or illuminates, clinical practice or child health致力于发表能够倡导临床实践或儿童健康变革、或对其有所启发的原创研究。
• Its disciplines include general paediatrics, adolescent medicine and child development学科范围包括普通儿科学、青少年医学与儿童发育。^[2]
• It covers all paediatric subspecialties, including allergy and immunology, cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, fetal and neonatal medicine, and gastroenterology涵盖全部儿科亚专科，包括变态反应与免疫学、心脏病学、危重症医学、内分泌学、胎儿与新生儿医学以及胃肠病学。
• Further subspecialties include haematology, hepatology and nutrition, infectious diseases, neurology, oncology, psychiatry, respiratory medicine and surgery进一步涵盖血液学、肝病与营养、感染性疾病、神经病学、肿瘤学、精神病学、呼吸医学与外科。
• The journal also publishes Lancet Commissions, Health Policy papers and Series that shape global child health agendas该刊还发表（Lancet Commissions）、卫生政策论文与专题系列，影响全球儿童健康议程。

History

• The journal was launched in September 2017 as a new title in The Lancet family and marked its third anniversary in 2020该刊于 2017 年 9 月作为（The Lancet）家族的新成员创刊，2020 年迎来三周年。
• It appears monthly and is published by Elsevier under The Lancet imprint该刊按月出版，由（Elsevier）以（The Lancet）品牌发行。
• It is indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus被（MEDLINE）、（PubMed）、（SCI）与（Scopus）收录。
• Other abstracting services include Embase, Current Contents, Essential Science Indicators, APA PsycInfo, Chemical Abstracts and Crossref其他收录服务包括（Embase）、（Current Contents）、（Essential Science Indicators）、（APA PsycInfo）、（Chemical Abstracts）与（Crossref）。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 37.746 in 2022 to 15.5 in 2024 and 13.4 in 2025影响因子由 2022 年的 37.746 变为 2024 年的 15.5 与 2025 年的 13.4。
• It ranks second among 190 paediatrics journals in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports and first among 351 paediatrics and child health journals by CiteScore在 2025 年（Journal Citation Reports）190 种儿科期刊中位列第二，以（CiteScore）计在 351 种儿科与围产医学期刊中位列第一。
• Its CiteScore of 27.1 also ranks third among 380 developmental and educational psychology journals其（CiteScore）27.1 在 380 种发育与教育心理学期刊中位列第三。

Editors

• Jane Godsland is listed as Editor-in-Chief in the publisher's 2025 journal profile and led the title from its launch出版方 2025 年刊物资料列出主编为（Jane Godsland），她自创刊起即领导该刊。
• Esther Lau became Editor-in-Chief in 2022, having joined the journal as Deputy Editor in 2020（Esther Lau）于 2020 年以副主编身份加入该刊，并于 2022 年出任主编。
• Ali Landman is acting Editor-in-Chief, joining the journal after nearly ten years as an editor at The Lancet Oncology（Ali Landman）现任代理主编，此前在（The Lancet Oncology）担任编辑近十年。
• Josefine Gibson serves as Deputy Editor of the journal（Josefine Gibson）担任该刊副主编。
• The journal's editors host a monthly podcast, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in conversation with, discussing authors' latest research该刊编辑主持月度播客（The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in conversation with），与作者探讨最新研究。