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World Journal of Pediatrics
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World Journal of Pediatrics

1708-8569

Published by: Springer

https://link.springer.com/journal/12519

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 2833 28 33 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 79
Documents by Best Scientists*: 84
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 51
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.05
Impact Factor: 4.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at World Journal of Pediatrics?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Pediatric surgery, Maternal and child health, Pediatrics, Internal medicine and Surgery. World Journal of Pediatrics holds forums on Pediatric surgery that merges themes from other disciplines such as Incidence (epidemiology), MEDLINE, Retrospective cohort study, Family medicine and Intensive care medicine. The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Maternal and child health as it also encompasses Immunology.

The journal connects research in Pediatrics with the related topic of Severity of illness. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Internal medicine, it also covered topics in Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Cardiology.

  • Pediatric surgery (50.57%)
  • Maternal and child health (31.46%)
  • Pediatrics (28.04%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Clinical features of severe pediatric patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan: a single center's observational study. (353 citations)
  • Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in children: experts' consensus statement. (352 citations)
  • Diagnosis and treatment recommendations for pediatric respiratory infection caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus. (313 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at World Journal of Pediatrics:

The most cited publications explore disciplines such as Pediatric surgery, Pediatrics, Maternal and child health, Internal medicine and Immunology. The discussions in the published articles emphasized the topic of Pediatric surgery in an attempt to further explore the field of Surgery. The Internal medicine research tackled in the journal publications is interrelated with Gastroenterology which concerns subjects like Biliary atresia.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Disease
  • Surgery

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

World Journal of Pediatrics primarily focuses on research topics in Pediatric surgery, Internal medicine, Pediatrics, MEDLINE and Maternal and child health. Some problems in Pediatric surgery that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Observational study, Family medicine, Pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Intensive care unit. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research in it involves the investigation of 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Vaccination.

Issues in Internal medicine were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Gastroenterology and Endocrinology. In it, White matter, Magnetic resonance imaging, Gestation, Disease and Asymptomatic are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Pediatrics research. The concepts on Meta-analysis presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Adverse effect and Confidence interval.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Why COVID-19 is less frequent and severe in children: a narrative review (10 citations)
  • COVID-19 and congenital heart disease: a case series of nine children. (5 citations)
  • Prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus infection and characteristics of lymphocyte subsets in newly onset juvenile dermatomyositis (5 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in World Journal of Pediatrics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Qiang Shu (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zhengyan Zhao (18 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Jianhua Mao (11 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition,
  • Kam Lun Hon (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Roya Kelishadi (8 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in World Journal of Pediatrics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Boston Children's Hospital (129 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Zhejiang University (120 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (65 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Capital Medical University (44 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Fudan University (38 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 7.23% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 55.84% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.19% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 5.19% of all publications and 33.77% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Related Journals and Reference Material

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Top Publications

  • Childhood obesity, cardiovascular and liver health: a growing epidemic with age.

    Maria Felicia Faienza;Mariangela Chiarito;Emilio Molina-Molina;Harshitha Shanmugam

    (2020)
    67 Citations
  • Current Mycoplasma pneumoniae epidemic among children in Shanghai: unusual pneumonia caused by usual pathogen

    (2024)
    25 Citations
  • Dent disease: classification, heterogeneity and diagnosis

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Serum levels of the novel adipokine isthmin-1 are associated with obesity in pubertal boys

    (2023)
    14 Citations
  • Factors of heavy social media use among 13-year-old adolescents on weekdays and weekends

    (2023)
    12 Citations
  • Maternal mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing, China.

    Zhuang Wei;Ming Yue Gao;Mary Fewtrell;Jonathan Wells

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Global Pediatric Pulmonology Alliance recommendation to strengthen prevention of pediatric seasonal influenza under COVID-19 pandemic.

    Kun Ling Shen;Leyla Namazova-Baranova;Yong Hong Yang;Gary Wing Kin Wong

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Global Pediatric Pulmonology Alliance (GPPA) proposal for COVID-19 vaccination in children.

    Lance E. Rodewald;Kun Ling Shen;Yong Hong Yang;Gary Wing Kin Wong

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Expert consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children

    (2024)
    7 Citations
  • COVID-19 disease in children: not as mild as we have been led to believe.

    Laura Moreno-Galarraga;Elsie M Taveras

    (2020)
    6 Citations

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