期刊名称：BMC PEDIATRICS ISSN： 1471-2431 出版频率： Continuous publication 出版社： BMC, CAMPUS, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, ENGLAND, N1 9XW   出版社网址： http://www.biomedcentral.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpediatr/ 影响因子： 2.125 主题范畴： PEDIATRICS 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal About BMC Pediatrics Aims and scope | Editorial team | Open access | Article-processing charges | Indexing services | Publication and peer review process | Editorial policies | Citing articles in BMC Pediatrics | Why publish your article in BMC Pediatrics? This page includes information about the aims and scope of BMC Pediatrics, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors. Scope BMC Pediatrics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health care in neonates, children and adolescents, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology and epidemiology. It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field. Editorial team Executive Editor Peter O'Donovan Editorial Board Manager Paul Lambert Journal Development Manager Genevieve Horne Senior Managing Editor Diana Marshall Publisher Jo Appleford-Cook Open access All articles published by BMC Pediatrics are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here. Authors of articles published in BMC Pediatrics are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement. For authors who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BioMed Central can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed. Article-processing charges Open access publishing is not without costs. BMC Pediatrics therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1325/$2215/€1600 for each article accepted for publication. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. Generally, if the submitting author's institution is a Member the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page. Indexing services All articles published in BMC Pediatrics are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in BMC Pediatrics include: CABI CAS Cases Database Citebase Current contents DOAJ Embase Global Health Google Scholar Index Copernicus MEDLINE Medscape OAIster PubMed PubMed Central Science Citation Index Expanded SCImago Scirus Scopus SOCOLAR Zetoc The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands). The full text of all research articles published by BioMed Central is also available on SpringerLink. All case reports published in this journal will also be indexed in Cases Database. BMC Pediatrics is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 1.98. Publication and peer review process Publication of research articles by BMC Pediatrics is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field. BMC Pediatrics operates an 'open peer review' policy meaning reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. The pre-publication history including all submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses will be linked to from the published article. Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My BMC Pediatrics, a personalized section of the site. Reprints High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints. Supplements BMC Pediatrics will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. All full length articles (proceedings, reviews or research articles) are indexed by PubMed. PubMed displays the title of the supplement only in the case of meeting abstract collections. For further information, please contact us. Editorial policies All manuscripts submitted to BMC Pediatrics should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies. Appeals and complaints Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should, in the first instance, contact the Executive Editor who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure. Citing articles in BMC Pediatrics Articles in BMC Pediatrics should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number. Article citations follow this format: Authors: Title. BMC Pediatr [year], [volume number]:[article number]. e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. BMC Pediatr 2009, 1:115. refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal. Why publish your article in BMC Pediatrics? High visibility BMC Pediatrics's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results. Speed of publication BMC Pediatrics offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through BMC Pediatrics, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed. Flexibility Online publication in BMC Pediatrics gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles). Promotion and press coverage Articles published in BMC Pediatrics are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on BMC Pediatrics's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage. In addition, articles published in BMC Pediatrics may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in BMC Pediatrics. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here. Copyright Authors of articles published in BMC Pediatrics retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement). For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BioMed Central, please click here. Instructions to Authors BMC Pediatrics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health care in neonates, children and adolescents, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology and epidemiology. It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field. Each article type published by BMC Pediatrics follows a specific format, as detailed in the corresponding instructions for authors; please choose an article type from the list on the left to view the instructions for authors. The instructions for authors includes information about preparing a manuscript for submission to BMC Pediatrics, criteria for publication and the online submission process. Other relevant information about the journal's policies, the refereeing process and so on can be found in 'About this journal'. BMC Pediatrics publishes the following article types: Research articles Case reports Database articles Debates Software articles Study protocols Technical advance articles We use plagiarism detection This journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors and referees are asked to declare any competing interests. Copyright rests with the authors. For more information on copyright of articles, see our publisher's copyright and license policy. checklist contact details manuscript details cover letter author details payment upload done   Submission checklist Thank you for deciding to submit your paper to BMC Pediatrics. Please make sure you have satisfied the points on the following checklist before submitting your manuscript. If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact info@biomedcentral.com. If you are submitting a manuscript to a particular Special Issue, please refer to its specific name in your covering letter. 1. Email addresses Do you have a list of the email addresses for all the co-authors of the manuscript? You will need to provide these so that we can inform the co-authors when the manuscript has been received and when it is published. 2. Instructions for Authors and peer review policy Have you read the detailed Instructions for Authors for BMC Pediatrics? You may also like to read BMC Pediatrics's peer review policy. If you are planning to submit a TeX file, please submit your TeX file as the main manuscript file and your bib/bbl file as a dependent file. Please also convert your TeX file into a PDF and submit this PDF as an additional file with the name 'Reference PDF'. This PDF will be used by internal staff as a reference point to check the layout of the article as the author intended. 3. 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Editorial Board Section Editors Shally Awasthi King George's Medical College, India Elena Chiappini University of Florence, Italy David A Paul Christiana Care Health Services, USA Susan E Richardson The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada Paramala Santosh King's College London, UK Deupty Section Editors Robert Locke Christiana Care Health Services, USA Associate Editors Girdhar Agarwal University of Lucknow, India Sofiya Alhassan University of Massachusetts, USA Gad Alpan Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, USA Andrew Argent Division of Pediatric Critical Care and Children's Heart Disease, South Africa Elizabeth Asztalos Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada Inge Axelsson Mid Sweden University, Sweden Consuelo Beck-Sagué Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA Vineet Bhandari Yale Univesity School of Medicine, USA Rahul Bhola University of Louisville, USA Ari Bitnun Hospital for Sick Children, Canada James Boardman Imperial College London, UK Andrea Boggild Toronto General Hospital, Canada Itzhak Brook Georgetown University, USA John Cairney McMaster University, Canada Krista Casazza University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Josefina Castro-Fornieles University of Barcelona, Spain Anil Chacko Queens College, CUNY, USA Rana Chakraborty Emory University School of Medicine, usa Bruce Clark South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom Conrad Cole Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA Annet J Dallmeijer VU University Medical Center, Netherlands Mark De Ste Croix University of Gloucestershire, UK Shaul Dollberg Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel Lizhong Du Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China Craig Erickson School of Medicine Riley Hospital for Children, USA Mark Fishbein Northwestern University, USA Dario Galante University Hospital Foggia, Italy Magdalena C Garcia Granada University, Spain Mario Giuffre University of Palermo, Italy Hannah Glass University of California, USA Beatrice Goilav Children's Hospital at Montefiore, USA Sergio G Golombek Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, USA Valeria Hirschler Durand Hospital, Argentina Cheryl Howe Ohio University, USA Lucky Jain Emory University School of Medicine, USA Frances Jamieson Public Health Ontario, Canada David Jimenez-Pavon University of Granada, Spain Heinz Jungbluth Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, UK Satish Kalhan Case Western Reserve University, USA Yogavijayan Kandasamy The Townsville Hospital, Australia Han C Kemper VU University Medical Center, Netherlands Dr Susan Kirk University of Manchester, UK Joanne Langley Dalhousie University, Canada Valeriane Leroy University of Bordeaux Segale, France Xin Liu Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA Robert Locke Christiana Care Health Services, USA Jamie Lohr Pediatric Cardiology, USA Chessa K Lutter Pan American Health Organization, USA Paola Marchisio University of Milan, Italy Gian Luigi Marseglia Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy David Martinez-Gomez Institute of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN), Spain Antonio Messineo Azienda O.U. Meyer, Italy Seema Mihrshahi University of Queensland, Australia Mark Miller Albany Medical College, USA Julia Morinis The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada Shaun Morris Hospital for Sick Children, Canada Opiyo Newton Kemri, Kenya Antoni Noguera-Julian Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Spain Andreas Nydegger University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland Herbert Anayo Obu University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Nigeria Tinuade Ogunlesi Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria Vincent Onywera Kenyatta University, Kenya Yoon Ooi University of Basel, Switzerland Dasja Pajkrt Emma Children's Hospital Academic Medical Center, Netherlands Kathryn Parkinson Newcastle University, UK Lynda E Polgreen University of Minnesota, USA Shahirose Premji University of Calgary, Canada C Anthony Ryan Cork University Maternity Hospital, Ireland Marina Salvadori University of Western Ontario, Canada Iman Sharif Nemours/A. I. duPont Hospital for Children, USA Sushma Sharma University of California, Berkeley, USA Kevin R Short University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, United States of America Doron Sommer McMaster University, Canada Parmi Suchdev Emory University, USA Alastair Sutcliffe Institute of Child Health, London, UK Marian Tanofsky-Kraff Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA Liu Lin Thio Washington University, USA Eva Thomas B.C. Children’s Hospital, Canada Susan Torrey New York University School of Medicine, USA Dat Tran The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada Nestor Vain School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Giovanni Vento Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Italy Esko Wiltshire University of Otago Wellington, New Zealand Xiao Zhang The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Editorial Advisors A David Edwards Imperial College London, UK Charles Hoff University of Utah, United States of America Terry P Klassen University of Alberta, Canada H P Sachdev Maulana Azad Medical College, India Gerd Schmalisch Humboldt University, Germany William L Stone East Tennessee State Univeristy, USA Haluk Topaloglu Hacettepe Children's Hospital, Turkey Henri A Verhaaren University of Ghent, Belgium David J Walsh Saint Louis University, USA