Jornal de Pediatria
Brief Background
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Jornal de Pediatria is a bimonthly, on-line only publication of the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics (Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria, SBP), having been published without interruption since 1934 and only in English. Jornal de Pediatria aims at improving the standards of pediatrics and of the healthcare provided for children and adolescents, as well to foster debate about health. The title should be abbreviated as J. Pediatr. (Rio J.), which must be used in references, footnotes and bibliographic captions. |
Open Access
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This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing virtual access, with no restriction (including financial restrictions), to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants rights of use to third parties using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY ), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of the articles, track them for indexing, send them as data to software or use them for any other legal purpose. All published articles will receive a DOI number. The concepts, opinions and ideas published in the manuscripts are the sole responsibility of their author(s) and do not reflect the opinion of the journal. |
Open Science Compliance
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Jornal de Pediatria is a Gold Open Access journal. Mnuscript submission is continuous throughout the year and completely free. Access, reading, downloading, citing, copying, distributing, printing, etc. full published manuscripts are also free, without prior permission from the editors or authors. Correct references to the journal must be provided in the citing material. During the submission, authors must inform about the study's compliance with Open Science communication practices by filling in the Form available here. It is recommended that all content underlying the text of the manuscript be made available either during the submission or in open access repositories. The cited data must be referenced in the article together with the bibliographic references, indicating the location address of the file/s in the repository. In the case of data restricted by legal and/or ethical issues, the reason for the restriction and the contact responsible for providing the information must be informed. |
Ethics in Publication
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Jornal de Pediatria is rigorously committed to good practices in scientific publication and follows international standards in resolving ethical issues in publication. The journal adheres to the guidelines of COPE, Equator Network, ICMJE and the Good Practice Guide for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication for the analysis of possible cases of misconduct in publication, including guidelines on data presentation, authorship, conflicts of interest, privacy and consent. |
Focus and Scope
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A bimonthly publication of the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics (SBP), the Jornal de Pediatria publishes original articles and review articles, covering the various areas of pediatrics. |
Digital Preservation
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This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program's Digital Preservation Policy. |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
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Preprints
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Jornal de Pediatria accepts manuscripts that have been deposited in preprint servers, such as Preprints, SciELO Preprints and EmeRI , bioRxiv and medRxiv, provided that the authors inform the following details: title, authors, name of the repository where it was published, date of publication, DOI, possible conflicts of interest, in addition to sending the Open Science Compliance Form. The preprint manuscripts follow the same process of screening, detection of plagiarism, double submission and double-blind peer review, in which authors and reviewers do not know each other's identity. However, in these cases, the anonymity of the authors is not guaranteed. We recommend that authors report the DOI of the preprint, if any. |
Peer Review Process
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This journal adopts the double-blind peer review process, in which authors and reviewers do not know each other's identity. Therefore, the files with the identification of the authors must be submitted separately from the other files. The process includes the following steps: - Screening by the editorial assistance: upon receipt, the article is checked against the journal's requirements (if it is written in English, type of article, registration numbers, author data, references in Vancouver, etc.). Otherwise, the manuscript is returned for adjustments. If the article complies with the standards, it is assigned to the Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor according to the topic of the article. The CrossRef Similarity Check (iThenticate) software is used on all manuscripts submitted to the Jornal de Pediatria. The analysis also examines whether the article has already been submitted to the Jornal de Pediatria and whether the same article has been submitted to another journal using the Elsevier's tool called Evaluate Manuscript. In case of multiple submission, a notification is sent to the Editor-in-Chief who will analyze the possibility of rejecting the article before sending it to the Associate Editor. - Initial Screening by the Associate Editor assigned according to the subject area of the article: the manuscript is checked if complies with the scope and quality standards of the journal. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria are rejected in the initial phase. Otherwise, the manuscript is sent to be assessed by at least two peer reviewers. - Double-blind peer review: reviewers assess the manuscript anonymously and submit their opinions through the system. In cases of preprint, it is not possible to guarantee the anonymity of the authors. Based on these opinions, the Associate Editor makes a recommendation for reject, review or accept the article. - Editor's evaluation with the reviewers' opinions: The decision of the Associate Editor on the first version of the article is sent to the authors: reject or review. If the opinions indicate that the article has methodological gaps that would not be remedied in a new version, the article is rejected. If the manuscript receives a review recommendation, authors have up to 30 days to send the revised version of the article, explaining and pointing out the changes made. New versions of the article may be requested. If the authors do not comply with the requests made by the reviewers and the editor, the article may be rejected. This decision is communicated to the Editor-in-Chief who can ratify or refute this decision. - Article is accepted: as soon as the Associate Editor accepts the article, the authors will be notified of the decision by e-mail. The charge of the publication fee is communicated by Elsevier. - PDF approval and publication: Authors will receive an email to make final corrections and approve the final PDF file of the article. Corrections requested at this stage of the process should be limited to typographical errors and should not involve changes in the content of the study or in the list of authors. Authors must return the approved version by email within 48 hours of receiving the message. After the approval, the article will be submitted for publication. In line with open science practices, the journal offers authors and reviewers the option of mutual opening up the peer review process, with or without identifying their names. Authorization to disclose their names can be given by the authors when submitting the article and by the reviewers when accepting the invitation. In the event of publication of the evaluations on which the decision to publish the article was based, they may be edited by the journal's editorial board. This option is subject to mutual agreement between authors and reviewers and must be discussed and agreed between authors, reviewers, and editors and communicated to the journal during the submission process. Adhering to this option is voluntary and aims to promote a transparent assessment environment, respecting confidentiality preferences. The name of the Associate Editor responsible for evaluating the manuscript is published with the article. |
Open Data
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In order to promote transparency, when submitting the article, authors must declare the availability of their data, be it analysis datasets, instruments, statistical analysis scripts, scripts and additional materials, made available in open online repositories, such as SciELO Data, Zenodo, Figshare, OSF, or Mendeley Data, if they cannot be published in the article itself. This information must be clearly indicated in the manuscript. Therefore, we request that all datasets associated with the submitted manuscripts be accompanied by the Open Science Compliance Form. If the data is not available for access or is not suitable for publication, there will be an opportunity to describe the reason during the submission process, stating, for example, that the research data is confidential. The statement will appear with the published article. |
Fees
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Jornal de Pediatria does not charge for submission, evaluation and review of the articles. Being an open access journal, once an original or review article is accepted, a publication fee will be charged to cover the costs associated with publication. Discounts and waivers:
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Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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Jornal de Pediatria is rigorously committed to good practices in scientific publication and follows international standards in resolving ethical issues in publication. The journal adheres to the guidelines of COPE, Equator Network, ICMJE and the Good Practice Guide for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication. The submission of a manuscript implies that the work has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published academic lecture or thesis, or as a preprint). In addition, it implies that the article is not being evaluated for publication elsewhere; its publication has been approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the study was carried out; and, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright holder. Possible ethical issues and cases of misconduct in publication, including guidelines on data presentation, authorship, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, privacy and consent, at any stage of the article evaluation process, will be evaluated by the Editorial Board and the retraction policies recommended by SciELO in its Guide for the registration, indexation and publication of retraction will be applied. Corrections or clarifications may be published if necessary. Cases not listed here will be resolved by the Editor-in-Chief and Associated Editors. The Registration and Publication of Errata or Addendum will follow the recommendations proposed by SciELO in the Guide for the registration, marking and publication of Errata and Guide for the registration, marking and publication of Addendum. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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The conflicts of interest may be of a personal, commercial, political, academic and/or financial nature. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or review of manuscripts. When submitting manuscripts, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial conflicts or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is even a potential conflict of interest, the author(s) must inform it in their document signed and attached through the submission platform. Please find more information at: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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The CrossRef Similarity Check (iThenticate) software is used on all manuscripts submitted to the Jornal de Pediatria. The analysis compares paragraphs and their respective references with available publications and assigns a percentage index according to the number of similar previous publications. Therefore, the rate of plagiarism of preprint articles will be high. At the discretion of the Associate Editors, if the plagiarism rate is very high (more than 80% and not a preprint article), the article may be rejected. In addition, the Elsevier tool called Evaluate Manuscript is also used on all manuscripts submitted to the Jornal de Pediatria in order to verify if the same article has already been submitted to the journal (“Duplicate submission check”) or if it has been submitted to another Elsevier journal and is under evaluation (“Simultaneous submission alert”). In the case of parallel submission to other journal(s), a notification is sent to the Editor-in-Chief who will analyze the possibility of rejecting the article before or even after the article is evaluated for publication. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
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The use of Chatbots or other artificial intelligences (AI) must be stated in the article submission. These technologies should not be listed as authors and their use should be declared during the submission process. The declaration is not necessary only if the tools have been used to check grammar, spelling, formatting, references, etc. To protect the rights of authors and the confidentiality of their research, the Jornal de Pediatria does not allow the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or similar services, by reviewers or editors in the process of peer review and evaluation of manuscripts. |
Gender and Sex Issues
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The editorial team of the Jornal de Pediatria, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines for the reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, outcome reporting and research interpretation. In addition, the Jornal de Pediatria observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its Editorial Board. |
Ethics Committee
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Studies involving patients or volunteers require the informed consent and the approval of the research ethics committee (or equivalent) of the institution in which the work was carried out. These statements must be documented in the article. Relevant consents, permissions, and waivers must be obtained whenever an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and of any other individuals. Written consents must be retained by the author and copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained must be provided on request. Unless you have written permission from the patient (or, where applicable, the next of kin), the personal details of any patient included in any part of the article and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission. |
Copyright
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Authors of articles published by Jornal de Pediatria retain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 license, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is correctly cited and the authors grant the journal the right of first publication. The concepts, opinions and ideas published in the manuscripts are the sole responsibility of their author(s) and do not reflect the opinion of the journal. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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Authors of articles published by Jornal de Pediatria retain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. This journal makes articles available online as soon as possible after acceptance. This includes the proofs of the article (in HTML and PDF formats), which have undergone minor corrections after acceptance and formatting for ease of reading, but are not yet the definitive versions of the manuscript. The PDF of the article at this stage also includes a disclaimer stating that it is an unedited article. This version will be replaced in subsequent production steps. A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is allocated to each article, making it fully citable and searchable by title, author(s) name, and full text. Jornal de Pediatria encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them in personal blogs, institutional repositories and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that the full citation to the journal's website version is included. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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Brazilian Society of Pediatrics |
Editor-in-Chief
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Associate Editors
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Editorial Board
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Technical Team | Editorial Production
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Types of Documents Accepted
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Jornal de Pediatria accepts submissions of original articles, review articles and letters to the editor. All published articles will receive a DOI number. The concepts, opinions and ideas published in the manuscripts are the sole responsibility of their author(s) and do not reflect the opinion of the journal.
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Authors' Contribution
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Each author is required to state their individual contribution to the article: all authors must have participated substantially in the research and/or preparation of the article, so that the role of each of the authors must be described:
Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: The statement that all authors have approved the final article should be true and included in the disclosure. |
Manuscript Preparation
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Three files are required for the submission of an article: Author agreement, Title Page and Manuscript. Author agreement: Form on Open Science Compliance or Cover Letter in which the authors declare that the article has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published academic lecture or thesis); is not being evaluated for publication elsewhere; its publication has been approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the study was carried out; and, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright holder.
Title page (with author details): must contain the following information: Blind manuscript (no author details): The main body of the article (including references, figures, tables, and any acknowledgments) should not include any identification, such as the authors' names or affiliations. It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word processor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Highlights such as bold, italic, subscript, superscript, etc. can be used. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. Please note that source files of figures, tables and graphs will be required whether or not you embed your figures in the text. Abstract: The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the main results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, references should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. The abstract should have no more than 250 words or 1,400 characters. Do not include words that could identify the institution or city where the study was performed, to facilitate blind review. The abstract should be structured as described below:
Abstract for original articles
Abstract for review articles Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Use abbreviations sparsely. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes. Please use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html. When suitable descriptors are not available, new terms may be used.
Abbreviations: All abbreviations must be spelled out at their first mention in the text. Non-standard abbreviations in the field of pediatrics must be defined in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Avoid the use of abbreviations in the abstract; those that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention. Funding sources: List funding sources in a standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements.
Text: The main text in original articles should contain the following sections, indicated by a subtitle: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. The sections in review articles may vary depending on the topic. Please submit math equations as editable text and not as images. Present simple formulae in line with normal text where possible and use a slash (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. Variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of " e" are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Consecutively number any equations to be displayed separately from the text (if explicitly referred to in the text). Footnotes should not be used. Instead, incorporate the relevant information into the main text. In the case of an original article, include a statement indicating that the research was approved by an institutional ethics committee. Studies involving patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which must be informed in the text of the article. Relevant consents, permissions, and waivers must be obtained whenever an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and of any other individuals. Randomized controlled trials should be presented according to the CONSORT guidelines. At manuscript submission, authors must provide the CONSORT checklist accompanied by a flow diagram that illustrates the progress of patients through the trial, including recruitment, enrollment, randomization, withdrawal and completion, and a detailed description of the randomization procedure. CONSORT checklist and template flow diagram are available at: http://www.consort-statement.org/. Registration in a public trials registry is a condition for publication of clinical trials in this journal in accordance with International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommendations. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion of the investigator) will not require registration. In line with the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the journal will not consider results posted in the same clinical trials registry in which primary registration resides to be prior publication if the results posted are presented in the form of a brief structured (less than 500 words) abstract or table. However, divulging results in other circumstances (e.g., investors' meetings) is discouraged and may jeopardize consideration of the manuscript. Authors should fully disclose all posting in registries of results of the same or closely related work. |
Article Submission Format
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Title in English: concise and informative title. Avoid unnecessary terms and abbreviations; also avoid reference to the site and/or city where the work was carried out. Short title: title of not more than 50 characters including spaces to appear on the headers.
Authors: Conflict of interest: write “nothing to declare” or clearly disclose any financial or other interests which could cause embarrassment if revealed after the publication of the article. Corresponding author: name, postal address, telephone number and e-mail address. Funding source: institutions or suppliers of equipment and materials, if applicable. Total word count of the text: Original articles cannot exceed 3,000 words and review articles cannot exceed 6,000 words, not including abstract, acknowledgements, references, tables and legends of the figures. Abstract: The abstract must have a maximum of 250 words. Please avoid the use of abbreviations and authors' identifications. Abstract for original articles: Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions Abstract for review articles: Objective, Sources, Summary of the findings, Conclusions Keywords: 3-6: Keyword 1; Keyword 2; Keyword 3. Please use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html. In the case of an original article, include a statement informing that the research was approved by an institutional ethics committee. In randomized controlled trials and clinical trials, authors must provide the CONSORT checklist accompanied by a flow diagram that illustrates the progress of patients through the trial. Registration in a public trials registry is a condition for publication of clinical trials in this journal in accordance with International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommendations. |
Digital Assets
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Citations and References
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Original articles must have no more than 30 references. Review articles must have a minimum of 30 up-to-date references. References must be numbered consecutively, and identified by Arabic numerals in square brackets [1]. Unpublished observations and personal communications should not be cited as references; they may be cited within the text, followed by the observations in parentheses “unpublished observation” or “personal communication.” For references, authors should consult Citing Medicine, The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/). For more detailed information, visit http://www.icmje.org/.
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Article with title in a language other than English:
Organization as author:
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Supplementary Documents
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The submission of an article requires three different files: the title page with the data of the authors, the body of the manuscript without the identification of the authors, and a document in which the authors of the article ensure that: |
Financing Statement
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On the title page, please identify who provided financial support for the research and/or preparation of the article and briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in the study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to send the article for publication. Example: Funding: This work received funding from the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number yyyy]. It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions about the program or type of funding and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding. If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. |
Contact
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Brazilian Society of Pediatrics |
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