About
Acceptance Rate:
30%
Time to first decision with review:
35 days*
Time from acceptance to publication:
30 days*
Impact Factor:
2.6
Citescore:
3.9
Total content views:
240,589
Aims and scope
BMJ Paediatrics Open is an open-access journal dedicated to publishing original research, clinical reviews and protocols that deal with any aspect of child health. The provision of child health is multidisciplinary and the journal welcomes papers from all health care professions. Papers dealing with paediatric surgery, paediatric specialties, public health, healthcare provision and qualitative research will all be accepted.
Publication decisions will be made on the scientific validity, ethical soundness and transparency of the research and whether the paper deserves publication, rather than on its apparent interest to any particular readership.
We do not publish studies conducted in animals, case reports or retrospective single centre audits. We do publish pharmacokinetic studies in the paediatric population.
Editorial Board
For information about the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Ownership
BMJ Paediatrics Open is co-owned by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and BMJ.
Journal Information
Publication Model
Open access
Frequency
Continuous
Launch date
2017
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index Expanded, PubMed Central, Medline (Index Medicus), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), DOAJ, Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Open peer review; reviewer and author are known to each other. Reviews are published online
Online ISSN
2399-9772
Journal Statistics 2023
Acceptance rate: 30%
Speed
Time to first decision with review: 35 days (median)
Time to first decision without review: 3 days (median)
Time from acceptance to publication: 30 days (median)
Impact
Impact Factor category: Pediatrics
Impact factor (JCR): 2.6
Impact Factor rank: 48/130
5 year Impact Factor: 2.6
Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 0.82
Eigenfactor Score: 0.00390
Citescore: 3.9
Citescore rank: 86/306
SciMago Journal Rank: 0.845
Reach
Total content views: 240,589
Total Altmetric mentions: 692
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
How we get these metrics
Vision
Learn about the editor’s vision of the journal here.
Contact Information
For all contact information please refer to the contact us page.
For Authors
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Rights and Permissions
Affiliations
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BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting transparent, accurate reporting of research studies. BMJ is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.
CHIFA (Child Healthcare Information For All) is a global child health forum with more than 3,500 members working to improve child health and rights, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. CHIFA is administered by the International Child Health Group of the RCPCH, International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health, and Global Healthcare Information Network.