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Journal of Pediatric Health and Nutrition
- ISSN 2691-5014
- DOI prefix 10.14302
- Open access, CC BY 4.0
- Publishing since 2017
About the journal
The Journal of Pediatric Health and Nutrition is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for clinicians, nutrition scientists, and public-health researchers working on the health, development, and nutrition of children, from the newborn period through adolescence.
The journal treats pediatric care, nutrition, and population and public health as connected responsibilities within child and adolescent health. Each is concerned with how children grow, develop, and stay well, and the journal reads work from all three against one scholarly standard.
- Aims and Scope The subject areas, ages, and approaches the journal covers.
- Editorial Board The editors responsible for the journal.
Purpose and scholarly role
The journal brings research on child health and research on child nutrition into one place of publication, including the work that joins the two.
Many questions in pediatrics sit where the two fields meet. The journal's record includes vitamin B12 deficiency reported through its clinical presentation, the nutritional status of infants with single-ventricle physiology, and serum vitamin D among children in institutional care, published alongside studies grounded in either field alone.
Clinical, population, basic, translational, and methodological research is considered when the research question has a substantive connection to pediatric health, development, nutrition, or care. Every article is open access from publication under CC BY 4.0, with copyright retained by the authors, and the full published record is available in the Archive.
Who the journal serves
The journal is written for the researchers and practitioners who study the health and nutrition of children and who apply that evidence in clinical care and in public-health practice.
- CliniciansPediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, family physicians, surgeons, and nurses who need findings reported precisely enough to know which children they apply to.
- Nutrition scientistsResearchers working on feeding practice, dietary intake, nutritional status, micronutrients, and nutrition support, in clinical and community settings alike.
- Population and public-health researchersEpidemiologists, program evaluators, and health-services researchers who study the health and nutrition of children in households, schools, institutions, and health systems.
- Laboratory and translational scientistsInvestigators whose mechanistic, biomarker, or measurement work is directed at a pediatric question.
Open access makes the complete record available to clinicians in training, program staff, and families seeking the evidence behind a recommendation.
Editorial responsibility
The Editor-in-Chief and the editorial board are responsible for what the journal publishes. The board's five members, based in five countries, bring expertise in pediatric nephrology, pediatric surgery, pediatric nutrition, and primary care practice; each is listed with affiliation and profile on the Editorial Board page.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions, which are handled independently, and editorial and peer-review decisions are independent of payment, membership, editorial roles, and any paid service. The Editorial Policies set out the journal's requirements for ethics, consent, competing interests, data availability, and corrections, and the Indexing page describes its identifier, discovery, and preservation arrangements.
Decision criteria
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Where the details are set out
Each of these pages states one part of the journal's standards and terms in full.
- Aims and Scope Subject areas, ages covered, and the approaches the journal assesses.
- Editorial Board The editors responsible for the journal, with affiliations and profiles.
- Editorial Policies Peer review, research ethics, consent, data availability, and corrections.
- Instructions for Authors Manuscript preparation, reporting standards, and the submission checklist.
- Article Processing Charges The publication charge, which applies after acceptance.
- Membership Optional publisher membership: the tiers, what each includes, and how to join.
- Submit Manuscript The submission routes and what to prepare before submitting.