About Italian Journal of Pediatrics

What is Italian Journal of Pediatrics?

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, the official journal of the Italian Society for Pediatrics, is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that includes all aspects of pediatric medicine. The journal also covers health service and public health research that addresses primary care issues.

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, which commenced in 1975 as Rivista Italiana di Pediatria, provides a high-quality forum for pediatricians and other healthcare professionals to report and discuss up-to-the-minute research and expert reviews in the field of pediatric medicine. The journal will continue to develop the range of articles published to enable this invaluable resource to stay at the forefront of the field.

Content overview

Italian Journal of Pediatrics considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. These are usually written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board.
• Debate articles: these articles should present an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. They can report on all aspects of the subject including sociological and ethical aspects.
• Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. All case report articles should indicate that informed consent to publish the information was granted from the patients or their guardians. Italian Journal of Pediatrics will only consider high quality and innovative case reports.
• Letter to the Editor: can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers.

Peer review policy

Italian Journal of Pediatrics operates a closed peer review system. Manuscripts submitted to the journal will be screened for general suitability before being reviewed by at least two experts selected by the Editor-in-Chief, with the aim of reaching a decision as soon as possible. Reviewers will be required to declare any competing interests.

Edited by Sergio Bernasconi, Italian Journal of Pediatrics is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in Italian Journal of Pediatrics

All articles are listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and are covered by PubMed Central, CAS and Scopus.

Articles in Italian Journal of Pediatrics should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Ital J Pediatr 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Italian Journal of Pediatrics does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Italian Journal of Pediatrics using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Italian Journal of Pediatrics is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is open access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Italian Journal of Pediatrics however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

Italian Journal of Pediatrics's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

Italian Journal of Pediatrics is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.