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World Journal of Pediatrics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Zhejiang University School of Medicine Children's Hospital.
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ISSN 1708-8569Verify ISSN ↗1867-0687Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Zhejiang University School of Medicine Children's Hospital
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 13 / 351 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
World Journal of Pediatrics is Q1 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 13 of 351), by CiteScore 2025.
World Journal of Pediatrics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.360, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
World Journal of Pediatrics is published by Zhejiang University School of Medicine Children's Hospital. Its print ISSN is 1708-8569 and its online ISSN is 1867-0687.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Journal of Pediatrics has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 5.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
World Journal of Pediatrics published 136 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 172. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (62.2%), United States (7.3%) and Italy (3.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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