Pediatrics (journal)

Monthly medical journal

Academic journal

*Pediatrics*
Publication details

Discipline	Pediatrics
Language	English, Spanish
Edited by	Lewis R. First
History	1948–present
Publisher	American Academy of Pediatrics (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	8.0 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Pediatrics
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	PEDIAU
ISSN	0031-4005 (print) 1098-4275 (web)
LCCN	51002540
OCLC no.	1761995
Links
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Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. In the inaugural January 1948 issue, the journal's first editor-in-chief, Hugh McCulloch, articulated the journal's vision: "The content of the journal is... intended to encompass the needs of the whole child in his physiologic, mental, emotional, and social structure. The single word, Pediatrics, has been chosen to indicate this catholic intent." According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 8.0.^[1]

Editors

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:

1948–1954 Hugh McCulloch
1954–1961 Charles D. May
1962–1974 Clement A. Smith
1974–2009 Jerold F. Lucey
2009–present Lewis First^[2]

References

^ "Pediatrics". 2022 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023 – via Web of Science.
^ "Pediatrics Editorial Board". American Academy of Pediatrics. Retrieved 12 July 2021.