PEDIATRIC DRUGS

Journal Title

PEDIATRIC DRUGS

PEDIATR DRUGS

ISSN / eISSN

1174-5878 / 1179-2019

Aims and Scope

Pediatric Drugs promotes the optimization and advancement of all aspects of pharmacotherapy for healthcare professionals interested in pediatric drug therapy (including vaccines). The program of review and original research articles provides healthcare decision makers with clinically applicable knowledge on issues relevant to drug therapy in all areas of neonatology and the care of children and adolescents. The Journal includes:

-overviews of contentious or emerging issues.
-comprehensive narrative reviews of topics relating to the effective and safe management of drug therapy through all stages of pediatric development.
-practical reviews covering optimum drug management of specific clinical situations.
-systematic reviews that collate empirical evidence to answer a specific research question, using explicit, systematic methods as outlined by the PRISMA statement.
-Adis Drug Reviews of the properties and place in therapy of both newer and established drugs in the pediatric population.
-original research articles reporting the results of well-designed studies with a strong link to clinical practice, such as clinical pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic studies, clinical trials, meta-analyses, outcomes research, and pharmacoeconomic and pharmacoepidemiological studies.

Additional digital features (including animated abstracts, video abstracts, slide decks, audio slides, instructional videos, infographics, podcasts and animations) can be published with articles; these are designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content. In addition, articles published in Pediatric Drugs may be accompanied by plain language summaries to assist readers who have some knowledge of, but not in-depth expertise in, the area to understand important medical advances.

Subject Area

PEDIATRICS

PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

CiteScore

6.40 View Trend

CiteScore Ranking

Category	Quartile	Rank
Medicine - Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health	Q1	#25/306
Medicine - Pharmacology (medical)	Q1	#54/260

Web of Science Core Collection

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)	Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Indexed	-

Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023)	Quartile
PEDIATRICS - SCIE	Q1
PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY - SCIE	Q2

H-index

55

Country/Area of Publication

NEW ZEALAND

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Publication Frequency

6 issues per year

Year Publication Started

1999

Annual Article Volume

62

Open Access

NO

Contact

5 THE WAREHOUSE WAY, NORTHCOTE, NEW ZEALAND, AUCKLAND, 0627