Journal of Pediatric Health and Nutrition
About the journal
An open-access, peer-reviewed journal for research on the health, development, and nutrition of children, published by Open Access Pub.
This page explains what the journal is, why it exists, whom it serves, and where editorial responsibility sits. The Aims and Scope page sets out what belongs in it.
- ISSN
- 2691-5014
- DOI prefix
- 10.14302
- Access
- Open access, CC BY 4.0
- Publication history
- Publishing since 2017
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub
Purpose
What the journal is for
The journal covers child health and nutrition as distinct and connected fields, and exists so that work joining them has a place to be read.
Pediatric practice asks two questions of the same child: what is happening, and what that child is being given. In the literature those questions are often separated, with clinical findings published in one venue and nutritional ones in another. This journal takes both as its subject, and it takes seriously the work in which the two cannot be told apart — a deficiency that presents as a clinical sign, a congenital condition whose management is largely a feeding problem, a feeding program whose results are measured in a ward.
The journal is published online only and every article is open access from the day it appears, so a clinician, a nutritionist, a program officer or a parent can read it without a subscription. Authors retain copyright and license their work under CC BY 4.0, which permits reuse and adaptation with attribution.
Readers and authors
Whom the journal serves
The journal is written for the people who care for children and for those who study how children grow, eat, and recover.
- Clinicians
- Pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, family physicians, surgeons and nurses who need findings reported precisely enough to know which children they apply to.
- Nutrition scientists
- Researchers working on feeding practice, dietary intake, nutritional status, micronutrients and nutrition support, in clinical and community settings alike.
- Population and public health
- Epidemiologists, program evaluators and health-services researchers whose subject is the health and nutrition of children in households, schools, institutions and health systems.
- Laboratory and translational scientists
- Investigators whose mechanistic, biomarker or measurement work is directed at a pediatric question.
- Readers outside research
- Because the whole record is open, the journal is also read by clinicians in training, by program staff, and by families looking for the evidence behind a recommendation.
Disciplinary role
Where the journal sits
The journal's place is the ground between pediatric medicine and nutrition science — the work that a strictly clinical journal and a strictly nutritional one each treat as somebody else's subject.
It publishes across the whole of childhood, from the newborn period through adolescence, and from any setting in which children are cared for: the ward, the clinic, the community, the school, the feeding program, institutional care.
What that means in practice
- Clinical, population, basic, translational and methodological research are read against the same criteria.
- A study is assessed on the question it asks and the methods it uses, not on the discipline it comes from.
- Work from settings with limited resources is assessed on the same terms as work from well-resourced ones.
- The subject areas and the boundary are set out in full on the Aims and Scope page.
Governance
Where editorial responsibility sits
An Editor-in-Chief and an editorial board hold responsibility for what the journal publishes, supported by independent peer reviewers.
The board's fields include pediatric nephrology, pediatric surgery, pediatric nutrition and primary care practice, across five countries. Members are listed, with their affiliations and identifiers, on the Editorial Board page.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions, which are handled independently. The Editorial Policies page states the journal's requirements for ethics, consent, competing interests, data availability and corrections.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Publishing terms
How publication is funded and kept
The terms an author needs before deciding where to submit are published in full on their own pages, and are stated the same way wherever they appear.
- Open access. Every article is free to read from publication, under CC BY 4.0, with copyright retained by the authors.
- Article processing charge. Publication is funded by a charge that applies after acceptance. The amount, what it covers, and how to ask the editorial office about fee relief are on the Article Processing Charges page.
- Editorial independence. Editorial and peer-review decisions are independent of payment, membership, editorial roles and any paid service.
- Identifiers and preservation. Articles are published with a DOI under the publisher's Crossref prefix. The Indexing page states which identifier, discovery and preservation arrangements the journal can evidence.
- Author guidance. Manuscript requirements, reporting standards and the submission checklist are in the Instructions for Authors.
- Membership. Membership of the publisher is optional and supports open-access publishing. It confers no advantage in the review or acceptance of a member's own manuscripts; the terms are on the Membership page.
Where to go next
Reading further
Each page below answers one question in full, so nothing important is left on this one in summary form.
- Does my work fit
- Aims and Scope
- Who decides
- Editorial Board
- What has been published
- Archive