BMJ Paediatrics Open

is an open access journal from BMJ and RCPCH, publishing research on the health and wellbeing of neonates, infants, children and young people.

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BMJ Paediatrics Open is an open access journal dedicated to publishing original research, study protocols and clinical reviews that deal with any aspect of child health. The provision of child health is multidisciplinary and international. The journal welcomes papers from all health care professions from anywhere in the world. Papers dealing with paediatric specialties, paediatric surgery, public health, or healthcare provision will all be considered.

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. BMJ Paediatrics Open adheres to the highest possible industry standards concerning publication ethics. To read the journal's detailed guidelines please see our policies.

BMJ Paediatrics Open is an official journal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and is indexed by Web of Science, MEDLINE, Pubmed Central, Scopus, Embase, DOAJ and Google Scholar. RCPCH members benefit from a 25% discount on the article processing charge (APC) when submitting to the journal.

BMJ Paediatrics Open is the open access companion journal to Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Call for Papers! BMJ Paediatrics Open invites submissions on Preventing and Mitigating the Impact of the Climate Crisis on Child Health. Find more details on the topic collection here.

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BMJ Paediatrics Open accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including protocols, review articles and original research.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for the journal.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Recent Articles

Community paediatrics:

Impact of climate change on child outcomes: an evidence gap map review

15 October 2024

Protocol:

Comparing qualitative and quantitative echocardiographic markers to assess cardiac contractility in newborn infants: protocol for a prospective cohort study

15 October 2024

Neonatology:

Evaluation of efficacy of oral calcium phosphate as an adjunct to standard-of-care regular phototherapy in cases of neonatal jaundice: a hospital-based double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

12 October 2024

Neonatology:

10 October 2024

Review:

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) consensus recommendations for opioid-minimising pharmacological neonatal pain management

9 October 2024

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Diagnosis and management of asthma in children

18 October 2023

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Gaza, armed conflict and child health

13 February 2024

General paediatrics:

Role of nebulised magnesium sulfate in treating acute asthma in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

23 May 2024

Protocol:

Normal saline for children with bronchiolitis: study protocol for a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial

17 January 2024

Screening:

Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in children born after vacuum-assisted delivery compared with second-stage caesarean delivery and spontaneous vaginal delivery: a cohort study

17 October 2023

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Analysis of tweets discussing the risk of Mpox among children and young people in school (May–October 2022): a retrospective observational study
31 January 2024

Neonatal health care costs of very preterm babies in England: a retrospective analysis of a national birth cohort
2 May 2023

Tick-tock: now is the time for regulating social media for child protection
20 July 2023

Are we overlooking alcohol use by younger children?
8 March 2022

Physical health complications in children and young people with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): a systematic review and meta-analysis
8 July 2024

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BMJ Paediatrics Open - Our Full Story

12 March 2024

Listen to Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Paediatrics Open, Shanti Raman, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice she has for authors thinking about submitting to the journal, what the journal has to offer to readers and what the journal has planned for 2024.

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