Pediatric Research

Pediatric Research publishes original translational research papers, invited reviews, and commentaries on the etiologies and treatment of diseases of children and disorders of development, extending from basic science to epidemiology and quality improvement.

Topic Areas
Adolescent Medicine, Allergy, Anesthesia, Behavior, Cardiology, Cardiometabolic Disorders, Critical Care, Development, Developmental Biology, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Fetus & Pregnancy, Gastroenterology, General Pediatrics, Genetics & Epigenetics, Health Services Research, Hematology, Hyperbilirubinemia, Immunology, Infectious Disease, Neonatal Neurology, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neuroimaging, Neurology, Nutrition, Obesity, Oncology, Patient Safety, Pharmacology, Precision Medicine, Public Health, Pulmonology, Quality Improvement, Regenerative Biology, Rheumatology, Stem Cells, Substance Abuse, Transplantation, Toxicology.

Publish in Pediatric Research
Information on accepted article types, publishing original research, general manuscript publication, disclosures/conflicts of interest, style guidelines, acknowledgments, author contributions, references, figures, tables, supplementary material and much more can be accessed here. Manuscripts should be submitted via ScholarOne.

• Current announcements: Pediatric Research Summer Annual Review Issue 2026 & Society Member Discount

  Summer Annual Review Issue 2026 - Call for Proposals (Deadline extended to: February 15th, 2026)

  The Editors-in-Chief of Pediatric Research announce the topic of the 2026 Summer Annual Review Issue, entitled "Tiny Babies: Limits of Viability".

  This is an excellent opportunity for junior faculty to pair up with senior mentors to develop these reviews! Please note that a faculty member should be corresponding author so that Springer Nature can identify whether there is a possible Open Access option that is no cost to the authors. Otherwise, standard publication page fees are waived for manuscripts included in the Annual Review Issue!

  Letters of intent should include a proposed title and be sent to info@pedres.org by the deadline. Please include "ARI 2026 Proposal" in the subject line. If proposal is accepted, initial manuscript drafts have been extended to be due May 1st, 2026. For more information, please click here.

    

  Society Member Discount

  The Editors-in–Chief of Pediatric Research are excited to announce that society members who have an article accepted with Pediatric Research after January 1st, 2026 will receive a 15% discount on the standard publication page charges and full waivers for color figure charges.

  We encourage society members to send their manuscripts to Pediatric Research!

   

  Publications in Pediatric Research by ESPR members

  Please find below a list of the latest publications by ESPR members: 

  "School readiness and prematurity – a perfect storm?": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04648-z

  "Comparison of volume and non-volume ventilation modes on carbon dioxide following neonatal transport": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04653-2

  "Safeguarding the integrity of scientific literature in the 21st century": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04647-0

  "Surfactant replacement therapy in late preterm respiratory disease: Identifying suitable candidates": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04705-7

  "Urinary lignans metabolites as biomarkers of fat distribution among adolescents": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04681-y

  "Randomized trial evaluating sensorimotor stimulation and functional feeding in high-risk newborns: study protocol": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04690-x

  "Pain Assessment During Less Invasive Surfactant Administration Using Skin Conductance: A Prospective Cohort Study": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04703-9

  "Umbilical cord milking as a technique to harvest cord blood derived cells for regenerative applications": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04687-6

  We wholeheartedly congratulate all experts involved in the publication of these papers!

Pedia Pod: Listen to the Podcast of the PR journal

Tune in here: iTunes, Google Podcast, Overcast, RSS Feed, and SoundCloud.

The 2021 journal citation metrics for Pediatric Research are as follows:

• 2-year Impact Factor* (2021): 3.953
• 5-year Impact Factor* (2021): 4.150
• Immediacy index*: 1.421
• Eigenfactor® score*: 0.01351
• Article influence score*: 1.096
• JCR Rank*: PEDIATRICS 17/129
• Journal Citation Score*: 1.36
• SNIP: 1.116
• SJR: 1.056
• Usage:
• 5,203,731 Downloads (in 2021)
• 6,405 Altmetric mentions (2021)

Abstracted/indexed in:

• Crossref
• PubMed
• British Library
• CAS
• Copyright Clearance Center
• EBSCO
• ExLibris
• GNM Healthcare
• Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science)
• PORTICO
• Scopus
• ProQuest
• Yewno
• UNSILO

ISSN and eISSN:
The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Pediatric Research is 0031-3998 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1530-0447.  

For more information on Pediatric Research, please visit www.nature.com/pr/

*2020 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)