Journal of Pediatric Health and Nutrition
Submit your research to JPHN
Journal of Pediatric Health and Nutrition welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams working across pediatric health and nutrition.
Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year.
- Open to
- Clinical, population, basic, translational and methodological work
- Ages covered
- The newborn period through adolescence
- Access
- Open access, CC BY 4.0
What the journal is looking for
Work the journal welcomes
These are areas in which the journal actively seeks submissions. They illustrate the remit rather than bound it; related questions in pediatric health and nutrition are equally welcome.
- Child health and disease
- Physical and mental health, development, and the recognition, diagnosis and management of disease and injury in infants, children and adolescents.
- Nutrition, feeding and growth
- Feeding practice and dietary intake from breastfeeding and complementary feeding onward, nutritional status and growth, and the methods used to assess them.
- Undernutrition and micronutrient deficiency
- Wasting, stunting and deficiency states; therapeutic and supplementary feeding; and nutritional recovery.
- Nutrition in clinical care
- Nutritional assessment, support and intervention in children living with acute or chronic disease.
- Prevention, public health and services
- Determinants of child health and nutrition in households, communities, schools and institutions, and the delivery of pediatric care.
- The newborn and earliest exposures
- Neonatal health and feeding, and the perinatal, maternal and household exposures examined for what they mean for the infant's own health or nutrition.
- Mechanism, method and measurement
- Laboratory, translational and methodological work directed at a pediatric question, including the development, evaluation or validation of instruments used in children.
Before you prepare a manuscript
What makes a submission a fit
The question the journal asks is whether the manuscript addresses a substantive question about pediatric health, development, nutrition or care.
That a study mentions children, involves a food children eat, or takes place in an institution that serves children is not by itself enough. What matters is that a pediatric question is actually under investigation and is answered by the work.
Equally welcome
- Confirmatory studies, replications and well-conducted null results, assessed on the same criteria as work reporting a new finding, a mechanism or a clinical benefit.
- Any study design that answers the question asked.
- Community, school, program and institutional research, read on the same terms as clinical studies.
The full statement of subjects, ages, forms of work and the boundary is on the Aims and Scope page, and the requirements for preparing a manuscript are in the Instructions for Authors.
What follows
What happens to a submission
The same sequence for every manuscript, whoever sends it and whichever route it arrives by.
- Screening. All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- 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.
- Decision. Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- Publication. Accepted articles are published open access under CC BY 4.0, with copyright retained by the authors, and carry a DOI under the publisher's Crossref prefix.
Sending it
Where to submit
Three routes are open to authors of this journal. Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
- Primary route
- ManuscriptZone
- Alternative route
- Manuscript submission form
- Assisted route
- [email protected]
The charge that applies after acceptance is on the Article Processing Charges page.