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About the Journal
The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS), the official journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, is dedicated to perinatal, childhood, and adolescent infectious diseases.
The journal is a high-quality source of original research articles, clinical trial reports, guidelines, and topical reviews, with particular attention to the interests and needs of the global pediatric infectious diseases communities.
Impact Factor and Ranking
| Year | Impact Factor | Si: Infectious Diseases | Si: Pediatrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.5 | 74 out of 132 | 44 out of 186 |
| 2022 | 3.2 | 58 out of 96 | 34 out of 130 |
| 2021 | 5.235* | 38 out of 94 | 14 out of 130 |
| 2020 | 3.164 | 56 out of 93 | 30 out of 129 |
| 2019 | 2.212 | 66 out of 92 | 41 out of 128 |
| 2018 | 2.269 | 58 out of 89 | 41 out of 125 |
| 2017 | 2.456 | 48 out of 88 | 32 out of 124 |
Latest information taken from the Journal Citation ReportsTM from Clarivate, 2023.
*The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an inevitable surge in the number of citations that relevant medical research has seen since the start of the pandemic in 2020. We would like to acknowledge the effect of this surge as it is reflected in our 2021 Impact Factor.
Journal Metrics
Publication Speed
- Time from submission to first decision: 27.6 days
- Time from submission to final decision: 35.2 days
- Reviewer turnaround time (original): 16.6 days
- Reviewer turnaround time (revision): 9.6 days
- Time from acceptance to online publication: 8 weeks
Publication speeds are based on 2021 averages
Citation Impact
- Indexing: CABI, CINAHL, Clarivate, EBSCO, Embase, Europe PubMed Central, MEDLINE, PubMed
- Citations: 2,794 citations in 2021
Usage
- 324,188 article downloads in 2021
- 16,535 total Altmetric mentions; on average, 18 Altmetric mentions per published article
- 38,000+ page views across the JPIDS website every month, on average.
Interested in submitting your research to JPIDS?
We hope you will consider submitting your pediatric infectious diseases research to JPIDS. All manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s online submission system. For general submission information and accepted article types, please refer to our author guidelines.
JPIDS offers the option of publishing under either a standard license or an open access license. Learn more about publishing your article open access.
Have a question? Contact our editorial office.
