Journal profile · PEDIATRICS
Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics
ISSN 1179-5565 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.7 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 4,150; median 210 days to acceptance (32 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 41.4% (journal website); 12 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics is published by SAGE Publishing and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Breastfeeding Practices and Influences and Infant Nutrition and Health, together about 20.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal Highlights Indexed using ESCI, DOAJ, EBSCO, ProQuest, and PubMed Central (PMC) Published since 2008 Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC) Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics is an open access, peer reviewed international journal that focuses on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders specific to children and adolescents, in addition to related genetic, pathophysiological and epidemiological topics. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information. From 1st September 2024 Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics will convert to a Hybrid publication model. Peer review processes remain unchanged and authors can choose to publish Open Access via Sage Choice or through an agreement with their institution, if available. Articles submitted from the 1st September will be published, if accepted, under a Sage exclusive license. For further information please visit the Submission Guidelines: /author-instructions/pdi.This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Diversity, Equity and Inclusion StatementClinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics promotes inclusive, open science that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of the pediatric research community.Diversity as a core value embodies inclusiveness, mutual respect, and multiple perspectives.We welcome editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers and authors from all backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, races, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, mental or physical (dis)abilities, ages, career stages, socioeconomic status or any other individual status.We are committed to continually improving our editorial and review processes whilst playing our part in eradicating bias and inequality in all forms. Submission Information Submit your manuscript at https://sage.atyponrex.com/journal/pdi. Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal. Contact Please direct any queries to Sophie.Maprayil@sagepub.co.uk
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PEDIATRICS
Editor-in-chief Aakash PanditaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 11, United Kingdom 2, India 2, Germany 1, Egypt 1 (17 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Neonatal Respiratory Health ResearchMedicine7.3%
- Breastfeeding Practices and InfluencesMedicine6.8%
- Infant Nutrition and HealthNursing6.8%
- Neonatal and Maternal InfectionsMedicine6.8%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, DietMedicine6.3%
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine5.3%
- Child Nutrition and Feeding IssuesMedicine5.3%
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathologyMedicine4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Pediatrics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Pediatrics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCILetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCDOAJPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 30OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 97OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.4OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 12LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 226 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21 | 21 | 3 |
| 2025 | 12 | 12 | 9 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 103 |
| 2023 | 22 | 22 | 124 |
| 2022 | 7 | 7 | 59 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 | 177 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
210 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 161 days – 314 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 75 days (32 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 308 days
- Sample
- 32 articles with submission and acceptance dates (33 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 41.4%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 250 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 74 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Blind peer reviewLetPub
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,500 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted8
- original research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics considers the follo…Length not stated
- perspectivePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics considers the follo…Length not stated
- research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics considers the follo…Length not stated
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics considers the follo…Length not stated
- review articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics considers the follo…Length not stated
- review articlesReview Articles – These manuscripts are usually commissioned by the Editors but unsolicited reviews will be considered.Length not stated
- scoping reviewsScoping Reviews – these reviews assess the scope of available literature on a topic through comprehensive synthesis.Length not stated
- systematic reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics considers the follo…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
Research data sharing policy: authors are encouraged to share data in a public repository, include a data availability statement, and cite the data. Model summary
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review identity transparency: single anonymized. Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: Reviewer identities (reviewer opt in) Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer revi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1179-5565
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics
What CAS zone is Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Pediatrics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.7; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 30.
How long does peer review take at Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics?
Based on the dates recorded on 32 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 210 days (interquartile range 161–314 days); authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 41.4%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics based?
Of the 17 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (11), United Kingdom (2) and India (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics is indexed in ESCI. The journal's website also lists PMC and DOAJ; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics open access, and what is the APC?
Clinical Medicine Insights-Pediatrics is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .