Acta Paediatrica
| Discipline | Paediatrics |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Hugo Lagercrantz |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica |
| History | 1921–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 2.4 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Acta Paediatr. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | APAEEL |
| ISSN | 0803-5253 (print) 1651-2227 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 25266094 |
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Acta Paediatrica is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering paediatrics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Foundation Acta Paediatrica, based at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
History
[edit | edit source]The journal was established in 1921 and renamed Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica in 1964, returning to its original title in 1992. The journal was conceived as a general pediatrics journal and its original aim was to "give studies from the Nordic countries a worldwide audience."[1] Thus the journal was originally trilingual, publishing papers in English, German, and French, at a time when most medical journals were still published in national languages; the journal later became an English-only journal. Since Rolf Zetterström became editor in the 1960s, the journal increasingly also published studies from outside the Nordic countries.[1] At the end of Zetterström's tenure as editor in the early 2000s, nearly two thirds of papers were authored by non-Nordic researchers.[2]
The journal is owned by the non-profit Foundation Acta Paediatrica, which is hosted by the Karolinska Institute, where all the editors-in-chief have been professors and the editorial office has always been based. The journal was published on behalf of the foundation by the Swedish publisher Almqvist & Wiksell from 1921 to 1992, by the Norwegian publisher Universitetsforlaget from 1992 to 2000, by Taylor & Francis from 2000 to 2007, and by Blackwell Publishing (later Wiley-Blackwell) from 2007.[2][1][3]
In addition to its ordinary issues the journal has published nearly 500 supplements, primarily doctoral dissertations authored by paediatricians from the Nordic countries in the early to mid 20th century.[1]
Abstracting and indexing
[edit | edit source]The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Biological Abstracts[4]
- BIOSIS Previews[5]
- Chemical Abstracts Service[6]
- Current Contents/Life Sciences[5]
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine[5]
- EBSCO databases
- Elsevier Biobase
- Embase[7]
- Global Health
- Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed[8]
- ProQuest databases
- Science Citation Index[5]
- Scopus[9]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.4, and is ranked as 46 of 186 paediatrics journals.[10]
Editors-in-chief
[edit | edit source]The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:[1]
- Isak Jundell, 1921–1945
- Adolf Lichtenstein, 1945–1950
- Arvid Wallgren, 1950–1964
- Rolf Zetterström, 1965–2005
- Hugo Lagercrantz, 2005–present
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