Vital Signs

Journal Overview

Journal Offices

Editors & Editorial Board

VITAL SIGNS

Circulation: 66,000 (English-language circulation)

Frequency: Monthly

Number of Translated Editions: 6 (Chinese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish)

Circulation of Foreign Language Editions: 25,000

ISSN Numbers
- Print: 0031-4005
- Online: 1098-4275

Impact Factor: 5.012 (2006)*
- PEDIATRICS has the highest impact factor among all journals in the field of pediatrics

Total 2006 Citations: 36,158*
- PEDIATRICS is among the top 2% most-cited scientific and medical journals.
- PEDIATRICS is the most-cited journal in the field of pediatrics.
*2006 Thompson Journal Citation Reports

JOURNAL OVERVIEW

PEDIATRICS is an official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In the inaugural January 1948 issue of PEDIATRICS, the editor, Hugh McCulloch, articulated the journal's vision: "The content of the journal is... intended to encompass the needs of the whole child in his physiologic, mental, emotional, and social structure. The single word, PEDIATRICS, has been chosen to indicate this catholic intent." PEDIATRICS continues this legacy, publishing original research, clinical observations, and special feature articles in the field of pediatrics, as broadly defined. Contributions pertinent to pediatrics are also included from related fields such as nutrition, surgery, dentistry, public health, child health services, human genetics, basic sciences, psychology, psychiatry, education, sociology, and nursing.

PEDIATRICS serves authors and readers of the general medical profession as well as pediatricians. The Executive Board and officers of the American Academy of Pediatrics have delegated to the Editor and Associate Editor the selection of articles appearing in PEDIATRICS. Statements and opinions expressed in such articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics, its Committees, the Editors, or Editorial Board of PEDIATRICS.

PEDIATRICS has been continuously published by the American Academy of Pediatrics since January 1948. PEDIATRICS is indexed by major biomedical and scientific indices, including Medline/PubMed , and ISI (Thompson) .

The Online Edition

The online edition of PEDIATRICS is produced and hosted by Stanford University's HighWire Press. The online edition contains all materials from the print edition, in addition to articles published only online in the Electronic Contents section of the journal. The online version of PEDIATRICS is considered the journal of record. Archives of past issues are available. From reference lists, readers can link to full text or abstracts of hundreds of STM articles and browse subspecialty article collections, register for free e-mail alerts, save articles to a personal electronic file cabinet, download articles to their handheld (Palm or Windows) devices, and perform sophisticated search queries.

PEDIATRICS supports and adheres to the guidelines for responsible publishing outlined in the DC Principles for Free Access to Science. Articles published in the Electronic Pages section of the journal, all policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and specific articles deemed important to the general public are made freely available immediately upon publication. PEDIATRICS is made freely available to institutions and individuals in over 120 developing nations around the world through participation in the World Health Organization's HINARI initiative, the Satellife network, and a country-based access system developed by HighWire Press and installed directly on PEDIATRICS' Web site. All other full-text content is available without a subscription 1 year after date of publication for a rolling 8-year period. After that time, it is under access control in the e-Archive. For example, as of October 2007, content is open from November 1998 to October 2006.

Foreign Language Editions of PEDIATRICS

PEDIATRICS is published in Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Turkish. The publisher of the Chinese edition is Everwell Corp.; the Italian edition is Editrice; . the Spanish edition, Doyma; the Polish edition, Medical Tribune Polska; and the Turkish edition is Tenedoks Medical Publishing. For information about reprinting translated versions of PEDIATRICS' articles in these languages, please contact the appropriate foreign language publisher. All other permission and reprint inquiries should be directed to the American Academy of Pediatrics (please see our reprints and permissions pages for more information).

To learn more about the history and policies of PEDIATRICS, please see our Journalology Collection .

Journal Offices

PEDIATRICS Editorial Office
Jerold F. Lucey, Editor
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Given Building D201
89 Beaumont Avenue
Burlington, Vermont 05405-0068
Tel: 802-656-2505
Fax: 802-656-4844
jerold.lucey{at}uvm.edu

Associate Editor's Office
Ralph Feigin, Associate Editor
Texas Children's Hospital, Suite A190
6621 Fannin Street, 1-3000
Houston, Texas 77030-2399
Tel: 832-824-1166
Fax: 832-825-1167
rfeigin{at}bcm.tmc.edu

Publisher's Office
Kerry O'Rourke, Senior Managing Editor
korourke{at}aap.org