About the Journal

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal without article processing or submission charges. It is published by Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health, in partnership with the Turkish National Pediatric Society and the International Children’s Center. It has been published since 1958, and available online since 2004.

To increase the visibility and discoverability of the articles, the Turkish Journal of Pediatrics is indexed in BIOSIS Previews, CABI Abstracts (Helminthological Abstracts, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A, Protozoological Abstracts, Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, EBSCOhost (Medline with Full Text), IBIDS (International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements),  ProQuest (Medline, Professional ProQuest Central, ProQuest Health and Medical Complete, ProQuest Medical Library, ProQuest Pharma Collection), PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science - Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, and Turkiye Citation Index and ULAKBİM TR-Index.

Aim & Scope

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics aims to advance the care of children in Türkiye and all around the globe by providing timely, high-quality scientific papers in the field of clinical pediatrics. It is mainly intended for pediatricians, pediatric residents and pediatric subspecialists, but its readership also includes child and adolescent psychiatrists, pediatric surgeons, dentists, nurses and midwives, dieticians, psychologists, child development specialists, occupational therapists, other health care workers, social workers, researchers and policy makers involved in children’s health.

In line with its these aims, the Turkish Journal of Pediatrics seeks to publish research to advance the field of pediatrics. It publishes original articles, review articles, short communications, case reports, images of the month, correspondence papers and letters to the editor (see “Author Guidelines” and “Article Types” for details). Studies conducted on animal models are outside the scope of the Journal.

Publication Frequency

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics is published bimonthly. The issues are published in February, April, June, August, October and December.

Publication Language

The publication language of the Journal is English. Manuscripts can be submitted in English only. The submitted manuscript should comply with the grammar and spelling rules, and the relevant scientific literature.

Bibliographic Information

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal.

  • Official abbreviation: Turk J Pediatr
  • ISSN (Print): 0041-4301
  • ISSN (Online): 2791-6421
  • DOI Prefix: 10.24953
  • First Publication: 1958
  • Publisher: Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health
  • Owner: On behalf of Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health
    Prof. Dr. Elif Nursel ÖZMERT, MD (Director of the  Institute)

Digital Archiving and Preservation

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics' content is archived in Portico, which provides permanent archiving for electronic scholarly journals. Also full text of all articles published in the Turkish Journal of Pediatrics are stored in pdf formats on the National Library of Türkiye.

Abstracting and Indexing

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:

Open Access Statement

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics is an open access journal. All articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors retain copyright of their published article. Open access ensures more reuse and citation, higher visibility and discoverability, greater engagement, immediate impact, increased interdisciplinary work and wider collaboration.

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics adopts the Open Access Declaration published by the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February, 2002:

“By ‘open access’ to this [research] literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

The publisher guarantees not to charge any reader or library a subscription fee and a fee for access to published electronic articles.

Authors contributing to The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics agree to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, including commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.

Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to the Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health.

You may:

  • Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format)
  • Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, including commercial uses.

When using, adapting, or sharing materials under this license, you must:

  • Provide correct attribution (give appropriate credit, include a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This must be done in a way that does not suggest endorsement by the original authors or publisher).
  • Avoid creating additional restrictions (you may not impose legal terms or technological barriers that prevent others from exercising the rights allowed by the license).

Charges

The journal does not charge authors or other parties for submitting, processing or publication of an article.
No fee or compensation is paid for published articles.

Financial Statement

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics is funded by the Turkish National Pediatric Society, the International Children’s Center and Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health, depending on the revolving funds. The Journal does not utilize any funds obtained through sponsorships.

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics does not charge for article processing. No fee or compensation is paid for published articles.

Sponsorship

The Journal does not utilize any funds obtained through sponsorships.

Kindly reach out to the Editorial Office for further enquiries.

Collaboration and Partnerships

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics welcomes opportunities for collaboration and partnerships. Kindly reach out to the editor-in-chief for further enquiries.

Material Disclaimer

The views and opinions expressed in articles, posts, or any other materials published herein are solely those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the Turkish Journal of Pediatrics or its affiliates. The editors, editorial board, and publisher assume no responsibility or liability for any material. All opinions conveyed in the journal reflect the views of the respective authors, and the responsibility lies with the authors.

Privacy Policy

Personal information such as names and e-mail addresses submitted to the Journal will be used exclusively for this journal and scientific aims of the Publisher. Such information will not be used for other purposes and will not be shared with third parties.

Publication Policies

Publication Policies are developed by Akdema Informatics and Publishing in accordance with the guidelines established by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).