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Journal overview

Aims and scope:

Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics is an international, open access, peer reviewed journal which considers manuscripts on all aspects of the diagnosis, management and prevention of disorders specific to children and adolescents, in addition to related genetic, pathophysiological and epidemiological topics.

Former title:

Prior to 1/1/2010 this journal was titled Clinical Medicine: Pediatrics (ISSN 1178-220X.) 

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by:

• Google Scholar 
• OAIster
  

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Information for authors

Call for papers:

The Editor in Chief welcomes submissions.  Submissions of the following types are invited:

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. Case reports must meet appropriate ethical standards.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

Register as a peer reviewer:

Do you wish to register as a peer reviewer?  Or are you already a registered peer reviewer but you need to update your contact details?   To register or update your details visit the peer reviewer registration form. 

Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

Pietro Galassetti, MD, PhD, is Associate professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as the Director of the Bionutrition/Metabolism Core at the General Clinical Research Center, and as Associate Director of the Pediatric Exercise Research Center.

Dr Galassetti received his MD (1986) and his Internal Medicine Specialist (1993) degrees from Rome University, and his PhD in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (1998) from Vanderbilt University. The author of over 70 peer-reviewed publications, over the past decade Dr Galassetti has developed several parallel lines of research with the common theme of the prevention and monitoring of progression of complications in dysmetabolic states, including pediatric obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 1 and type 2 diabetes. In particular his research, currently funded by four extramural grants from the NIH and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, has focused on the definition of the effects of hypo- and hyperglycemia on the counterregulatory, inflammatory and growth factor response to exercise in children with type 1 diabetes; on the definition of oxidative stress and altered leukocyte gene expression in response to exercise in obese and metabolic syndrome children; and on the development of a novel, non-invasive technique of metabolic monitoring through analysis of infinitesimal concentrations of volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath. Dr Galassetti is also responsible for the national coordination of physical measures in the STOPP-T2D study, a national, multi-centric school-based NIH study implementing prevention strategies against obesity and type 2 diabetes in thousands of 6th-8th graders.

The recipient of several scientific national awards, Dr Galassetti is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Physiology, acts as a reviewer for about 20 scientific journals, and as a grant reviewer for the NIH, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and several international scientific foundations.

Editorial Board

Associate Editor:

Allison Chung, PharmD
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Mobile, AL, USA

Editorial Board:

Mohamed Badawy Abdel-Naser, PhD
Professor Dr. med., Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Afrooz Afghani, PhD, MPH
Professor, College of Health Sciences, TUI University, Cypress, California, USA

Abdulbaghi Ahmad, PhD
IACAPAP Ambassador, Associate Professor, Department of Child Mental Health, College of Medicine, University of Dohuk, Kurdistan Region - Iraq Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Robert E. Akins Jr., PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Biomedical Research, Nemours / Alfred I. DuPont, Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Akinyele Lawrence Akinyoola, PhD
DR(Senior Lecturer), Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria

Michael G. Aman, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, The Nisonger Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Ambika Ashraf, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of pediatric endocrinology, UAB department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Ana Avellon, PhD
Doctor, Hepatitis Laboratory, National Center of Microbiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

Andre S. Bachmann, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Ayşegul Bayir, PhD
Asist. Professor, Selcuk University, Meram Faculty Of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department, Meram, Konya, Turkey

Andrew Bush, PhD
Professor of Paediatric Respirology, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Airway Division, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

Caroline Cameron, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Arend Derk Jan Ten Harkel, MD, PhD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Erasmus MC-Sophia, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, GJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Angela Fawcett, PhD
Director, Centre for Child Research, Swansea University, Swansea, S.Wales

Alice M. Gregory, PhD
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, U.K.

Ama Johal, PhD
Department of Oral Growth and Development, Institute of Dentistry, London, UK

Aamir Z Khan, FRCS Eng (Gen)
Senior Fellow HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Alexander A. Kon, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics
Department of Pediatrics and Program in Bioethics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

Praveen Kumar, MBBS, DCH, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Neonatology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

Andrea Mechelli, PhD
Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK

Aaron Mohanty, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

Roger J. Packer, MD
Executive Director, Center for Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine, CNMC
Director, Daniel and Jennifer Gilbert Neurofibromatosis Institute, CNMC
Director, Brain Tumor Institute, CNMC
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, The George Washington University Medical Center
Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA

Mani Pavuluri, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research and Center for Cognitive Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Anthony John Penington, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Deputy Director, The Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery, Melbourne, Australia
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Dept. of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Australia

Arturo Sala, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK

Amika Singh, PhD
MSc, Human Movement Science, MSc, Epidemiology, BSc, physical therapy
VU University Medical Center, EMGO Institute, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eric J. Smart, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Alastair Sutcliffe, MD, MRCP, FRCPCH
Senior Lecturer in Child Health, General & Adolescent Paediatric Unit, Institute of Child Health University College of London, London, UK

Edward Taub, PhD
University Professor, Director, CI Therapy Research Group and
Taub Training Clinic, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Svetlana Ten, MD, CDE
Director of Pediatric Endocrine Division, Infants and Children's Hospital of Brooklyn at Maimonides, Associate Professor at SUNY Downstate, Director of Pediatric Endocrine Felllowship Program at Maimonides and SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Neal J. Thomas, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences Director, Pediatric Critical Care Research Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Penn State Children's Hospital Hershey, PA USA

Howard Trachtman, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital of North Shore-LIJ Health System, Chief, Division of Nephrology, New Hyde Park, NY, USA

John N. van den Anker, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

Delia M. Vazquez, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases Pediatric Endocrine Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Miqin Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

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