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Journal of Child Health and Pediatric Care

ISSN
3143-5815 (Online)

QuarterlyPublished since 2023Open access, CC BY 4.0Double-blind peer review

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About the journal

The Journal of Child Health and Pediatric Care (JCHPC) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal for pediatricians, neonatologists, child health nurses, developmental specialists and researchers. It publishes original research, review articles, case reports and short communications that span the continuum of childhood, from the newborn period through adolescence. The journal welcomes both hospital-based clinical studies and community research on growth, development and well-being, and it values work that reflects the realities of pediatric care in different regions and health systems.

Manuscripts are evaluated through double-blind peer review by reviewers with clinical and methodological expertise, and editors pay particular attention to the ethical conduct of research involving children, including assent and safeguarding. All articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. JCHPC uses continuous publication, releasing each article online as soon as it is ready and assigning it to the current issue, so that clinically relevant findings are available without delay.

Aims and scope

JCHPC aims to improve the health and development of children by publishing research that informs clinical decisions, service design and early intervention. The journal seeks studies that clarify the causes and natural history of pediatric conditions, evaluate diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in neonates, children and adolescents, and identify modifiable influences on growth, learning and behavior in the early years. It encourages longitudinal and family-centered research, reports of rare or atypical presentations with practical lessons, and work from regions where pediatric evidence remains limited.

Topics within scope

  • Neonatal medicine and perinatal outcomes
  • Child growth, nutrition and development
  • Early language, cognition and behavior
  • Pediatric infectious diseases and immunization
  • Pediatric cardiology and Kawasaki disease
  • Adolescent physical and mental health
  • Pediatric emergency and critical care
  • Chronic conditions and complex care in childhood
  • Digital media and child well-being

Latest articles

All articles

Original Research

Early Childhood Screen Time and Expressive Language Development at 24 Months in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: A Prospective Cohort Study

Nurul Ain Rosli, Jia Wen Tan, Kavitha Ramasamy et al.

Screen use begins early in infancy in many urban settings, but prospective evidence linking toddler screen time to language development in Southeast Asia is limited. We recruited 642 children at their 12-month well-child visit in six government health clinics in Kuala Lumpur and followed them to 24…

Current issue and archive

Quarterly issues under continuous publication: articles are added to the current issue as soon as they are ready.

Volume 4, Issue 4CurrentOctober–December 20261 articleVolume 4, Issue 3July–September 20261 article

Earlier volumes are listed in the article archive, which can be searched and filtered by issue, year and article type.

Editorial board

Full editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Anjali Narayanan

MBBS, MD, PhD

Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick ChildrenToronto, Canada

Anjali Narayanan is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and a staff neonatologist at The Hospital for Sick Children. After pediatric training in Chennai and a neonatal fellowship in Toronto, she established a longitudinal follow-up program for infants born very preterm and has led cohort studies on early language, motor development and family well-being. Her methodological interests include measuring developmental outcomes across languages and cultures. She served on the editorial boards of two pediatric journals before becoming Editor-in-Chief of JCHPC at its launch.

  • Neonatal medicine
  • Child neurodevelopment
  • Cohort studies

Associate Editor

Assoc. Prof. Hui Min Lim

MBBS, MRCPCH

Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of SingaporeSingapore, Singapore

  • Developmental pediatrics
  • Autism spectrum disorder

Associate Editor

Prof. Carlos Eduardo Vargas Montoya

MD, PhD

Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hospital Infantil de México Federico GómezMexico City, Mexico

  • Pediatric infectious diseases
  • Vaccinology

Associate Editor

Assoc. Prof. Katarzyna Wiśniewska

MD, PhD

Department of Pediatric Cardiology and General Pediatrics, Medical University of WarsawWarsaw, Poland

  • Pediatric cardiology
  • Kawasaki disease

For authors

Author guidelines

Author guidelines

Article types
Original Research, Review Article, Case Report, Short Communication
Reference style
Vancouver (numbered)
Publication charge
US$1,150
Peer review
Double-blind
License
CC BY 4.0

Manuscripts should follow the reporting guideline for their study design, such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA or CARE.

Manuscript submission

  1. 1Submission. Send the manuscript, cover letter and declarations to the editorial office for the journal you have chosen.
  2. 2Editorial check. The editorial office checks scope, formatting, completeness and text similarity before peer review.
  3. 3Peer review. At least two independent reviewers assess the manuscript under a double-blind model.
  4. 4Decision. The handling editor accepts, requests revision or declines, and shares all reviewer reports with the authors.
  5. 5Publication. Accepted articles are copyedited, typeset, assigned a DOI and published open access in the current issue.
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Publication policies

JCHPC follows the publishing policies that apply to every Scholix journal.