Journal of Pediatric Health and Nutrition
Special Issues
A special issue gathers work on one question that is worth reading together. The journal welcomes proposals from researchers who want to assemble one.
Articles in a special issue are reviewed and decided exactly as any other submission is.
- Proposals
- Accepted throughout the year
- Review
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- Proposals to
- [email protected]
Invitation
Propose a Special Issue
Journal of Pediatric Health and Nutrition welcomes proposals for focused collections that address important questions in pediatric health and nutrition.
Researchers with relevant expertise are invited to review the proposal requirements below and contact the editorial office. A proposal is welcome at any time; the journal does not run a proposal window.
What a proposal should contain
- The question the collection would address, and why it is worth gathering work on now.
- The kinds of study that would fit, across clinical, population, basic, translational and methodological work.
- The proposed guest editors, with their affiliations, relevant publications and any competing interests.
- An indication of how many articles are expected and over what period.
Write to [email protected] with a proposal or a question about one. The editorial office will say what a collection would involve and whether the journal can support it.
How a collection is run
The safeguards that apply
These are what make a special issue a scholarly collection rather than a shortcut, and they are the reason an article in one carries the same weight as any other.
- The same review
- Every manuscript submitted to a collection goes through the journal's normal screening and independent peer review. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- The same decision
- Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. An invitation to contribute is not a commitment to publish.
- Guest-editor independence
- A guest editor selects reviewers and advises on the collection, and recuses themselves from any manuscript they cannot assess impartially, including their own. Those manuscripts are handled by a journal editor instead.
- Competing interests
- Guest editors declare their interests before a collection opens, as an editor of the journal does, and the collection is not used to advance a commercial or institutional position.
- Scope
- A collection sits inside the journal's remit; it does not extend it. What that remit covers is on the Aims and Scope page.
- Charges
- Articles in a collection are subject to the same article processing charge as any other accepted manuscript, on the terms published on the Article Processing Charges page. Neither a guest editor nor a contributor can affect a decision through a fee arrangement.
In the meantime
Submitting to the journal
Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year, on every subject the journal covers.
- Does it fit
- Aims and Scope
- How to prepare it
- Instructions for Authors
- Where to send it
- Submit a manuscript