World Journal of Pediatrics
The World Journal of Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering clinical practice and research in pediatrics, including pediatric surgery, preventive healthcare, pharmacology, stomatology, and biomedicine, with a particular focus on internal medicine. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine and the editors-in-chief are Zheng-Yan Zhao and Qiang Shu.
History
The journal was established in 2005 and initially published quarterly. It became bimonthly 2017 and monthly in 2022. In 2009, the journal began its cooperation with Springer for online publication.Notable articles
The journal publishes one to two thematic issues annually, focusing on emerging and clinically relevant topics in pediatrics. Special issues have covered areas such as pediatric sleep health, severe acute hepatitis in children, pediatric COVID-19,, autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and obesity and diabetes in children and adolescents. The journal also publishes pediatric clinical guidelines and expert consensus statements. In 2024, it published the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurally Mediated Syncope in Children and Adolescents (revised 2024), which was recognized among the China Top Seven Advances in Pediatrics of 2024 by the Chinese Pediatric Society of the Chinese Medical Association.According to the Web of Science, the 5 most cited articles published during 2021-2025 are:
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 4.5.