About
Acceptance rate:
36%
Time to first decision with review:
59 days*
Time from acceptance to publication:
16 days*
Rank (pediatrics):
10/186
Impact factor:
4.4
Total content views:
1.61 million
Aims and scope
Archives of Disease in Childhood is an international peer review journal that aims to keep paediatricians and others up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases as well as advocacy issues such as child protection. It focuses on all aspects of child health and disease from the perinatal period (in the Fetal and Neonatal edition) through to adolescence. ADC includes original research reports, commentaries, reviews of clinical and policy issues, and evidence reports. Areas covered include: community child health, public health, epidemiology, acute paediatrics, advocacy, and ethics.
The content of Archives of Disease in Childhood is endorsed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health for Continued Professional Development in line with RCPCH CPD guidelines.
Archives of Disease in Childhood is the flagship of BMJ’s paediatrics portfolio and has an open access companion journal, BMJ Paediatrics Open.
For information about the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Plan S compliance
Archives of Disease in Childhood is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.
Editions
Subscribers to ADC receive two complementary editions of the journal as part of their subscription:
Education and Practice edition
This edition of ADC published six times per year (launched in 2004) aims to assist paediatricians, at all levels in their training, in their ongoing professional development. The edition is supported by the RCPCH but has international appeal. The journal contains the following educational sections:- Best practice
- Problem solving in clinical practice
- Pharmacy update
- Evidence-based paediatrics (Picket)
- Interpretations (making sense of diagnostic tests)
- Radiology (Illuminations) and dermatology (Dermatophile) quizzes
The Fetal and Neonatal edition
This bimonthly edition of ADC brings together quality research and reviews in the field of perinatal and neonatal medicine. Original research papers cover fetal and neonatal physiology and clinical practice, genetics, perinatal epidemiology and neurodevelopmental outcomes.Journal Information
Ownership
ADC is co-owned by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and BMJ. For more information please refer to the Affiliations section below.
Publication Model
Subscription; with hybrid open access option
Frequency
ADC is published monthly E&P and FNN are published bimonthly
Launch date
1926
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded; BIOSIS Previews; Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, Life Sciences; MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), CINAHL, Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
ADC Online ISSN
1468-2044
ADC Print ISSN
0003-9888
FNN Online ISSN
1468-2052
FNN Print ISSN
1359-2998
E&P Online ISSN
1743-0593
E&P Print ISSN
1743-0585
Journal Statistics 2023
Acceptance rate: 36%
Speed
Time to first decision without review: 2 days (median)
Time to first decision: 59 days (median)
Time from acceptance to publication: 16 days (median)
Impact
Impact Factor Category: Pediatrics
Impact Factor (JCR): 4.4
Impact Factor rank: 9/186
5 Year Impact Factor: 3.9
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.49
Eigenfactor: 0.01093
Citescore: 5.8
Citescore rank: 49/330
Scimago Journal rank (SJR): 0.935
Reach
Total content views: 1.61 million
Total Altmetric mentions: 9,671
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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Contact Information
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Affiliations
Members receive print/online access to ADC
Members receive ADC with Drug Therapy section
The BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.