Announcements

Below, please see Pediatric Research announcements related to:

New Manuscript Submission Process

The Editors-in-Chief of Pediatric Research are excited to announce that starting February 1st, 2024 we will update our new manuscript submission workflow in favor of a streamlined process. Please see the below list for manuscript items that will be required for new manuscripts submitted to Pediatric Research. More information on each of the below items can be found in our Instructions for Authors!

  • Title Page (Author List, Institutions and Corresponding Author)
  • Impact Statement
  • Conflict of Interest Statement
  • Financial Disclosure
  • If Applicable (please see our article type requirements)
    • IRB/IACUC approval/patient consent
    • PRISMA checklist
    • RCT registration

Pediatric Research will no longer require a cover letter, correct formatting of references, specific file types and other requirements at first submission.

 

COVID-19 Call For Papers

COVID-19 remains a rapidly evolving and thus fluid disease. In the absence of timely, valid, and pertinent information, many clinicians worldwide are inadequately informed and insufficiently prepared to help manage this new disease.

The Editors-in-Chief of Pediatric Research are soliciting papers addressing the mechanisms of disease in COVID-19. In particular, we are seeking data driven submissions of original research including basic translational research, trials and outcomes studies, narrative reviews, and eventually, systematic reviews and meta-analyses related to COVID-19.

These COVID-19 related papers will be immediately made available as free access content and widely disseminated via our Journal website and PubMed. Please note: Papers accepted after March 1 will not have COVID-19 fees waived.

Submissions can be made through ScholarOne at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/prjournal and please note that submission does not guarantee peer review or eventual acceptance. Please indicate in your cover letter that you are submitting in response to the call for COVID-19 papers.

  • We are automatically sending the World Health Organization (WHO) all published research, on a rolling basis, that is directly relevant to the outbreak.
  • We urge all authors of relevant research to share preprints of their submitted papers on a recognized preprint server and to release all data, code and protocols associated with their research to a recognized community repository.  Such deposition should please not affect the consideration or publication process of submitted manuscripts.  
    • If you have not already deposited a preprint and are seeking a suggestion for a preprint server, our affiliates at Research Square offer the Research Square preprint platform.
  • If you need help depositing and curating your research data (including raw and processed data, text, video, audio and images) you should consider:
  • For protocols, we encourage authors to share their step-by-step experimental protocols on a protocol sharing platform of their choice.
  • All Springer Nature content related to COVID-19 is automatically made free on our webpages. Here’s a nested-by-topic repository of articles published here on this topic (landing page represents the tags we use to identify and share all our published articles, automatically, on this topic): https://springernature.github.io/covid19-publications/
  • We’ve created a central resource for content, initiatives, and announcements (scroll down on the page for content): https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus

 

COVID-19 RESOURCES

The situation with the COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly changing with an ever expanding medical literature. In this quickly changing environment we encourage any input or suggestions that can be supported by the journal to provide resources for the healthcare community and families. 

We invite you to share your experience with COVID-19 whether in your personal or professional life. Our goal is to share this information rapidly with our readership and will expedite getting this information out. We are looking for both shorter anecdotes to share on our website and longer “correspondence” pieces to be published in the journal. All page charges will be waived and we will be setting these articles as freely accessible on our website.

Please find below international resources below from  the World Health Organization, BMJ, Don’t Forget the Bubbles,  the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK and USA, etc.

 

Color Figure Charges Waived

The Editors-in-Chief of Pediatric Research are excited to announce that, beginning with manuscripts submitted in 2020, charges for color figures will be waived where the first or last author is a member of APS, ESPR, or SPR.

Editor Apprenticeship Program

Deadline for nominations: December 1st, 2025

The Editors-in–Chief of Pediatric Research are excited to announce our eighth year of the Editorial Apprenticeship program. This program is designed for mid-career interested researchers to gain experience and develop skills necessary for membership on an editorial board. Dr. Bearer and Dr. Molloy will be selecting two individuals each year to participate in this program. The selectees will be invited to join the Editorial Board meeting at a PAS meeting and/or an EAPS/jENS meeting, travel expenses covered. Exemplary Editorial Apprentices may be invited to join the Editorial Board after their completion of the apprenticeship program.

Candidates must meet the following criteria:

  1. Academic rank at the Associate Professor Level or higher
  2. Has published more than 10 peer reviewed articles
  3. Has reviewed for Pediatric Research
    1. Alternately: has reviewed more than 10 articles (We encourage submission of your Publons Report)
  4. Membership in APS, ESPR, or SPR preferred

 

Responsibilities:

  1. Participate in the Editorial Office call with the Editors in Chief.
  2. Assisting with setting the runlist and Editor’s Focus for journal issues
  3. Handle manuscripts at the Associate Editor level
  4. Assist with miscellaneous tasks, such as writing press releases, selecting the Early Career Investigator Highlight winner, and Travel Award winners, etc.

 

Please submit nominations detailing the above information and CV to info@pedres.org and note that the nomination is for the 2026 Editor Apprenticeship Program

2025 TRAVEL AWARDS - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Deadline for nominations: December 1st, 2025

The Editors-in–Chief of Pediatric Research are inviting nominations for the 2025 Travel Awards. Winners of the Travel Award will receive a $2,500 travel stipend for reimbursement to travel either to an upcoming PAS meeting (Boston, MA in April 2026) or ESPR meeting (Lyon, France in October 2026). Winners would have up to two years to use this grant for one of these meetings.

Nominations should be authors of articles published in the print editions of Pediatric Research during calendar year 2025. Travel Awardees must be:

  1. No more than 7 years from first faculty appointment; and
  2. Have done majority of the work on the original research article; and
  3. Be first or senior author of the original research article.

 

Please submit nominations to info@pedres.org and note that the nomination is for the 2025 Travel Awards. Please also include if you are a member of APS, SPR or ESPR.

 

Summer Annual Review Issue 2026&ndash

Deadline for proposals: December 1st, 2025!

The Editors-in-Chief of Pediatric Research announce the topic of the Annual Review Issue,

 Summer 2025 entitled “Tiny Babies: Limits of Viability”

 

Pediatric Research is preparing its Annual Review Issue with the topic, “Tiny Babies: Limits of Viability”. As technology advances, Neonatal Intensive Care Units worldwide are offering resuscitation for increasingly younger and smaller preterm neonates. There are specific challenges when caring for neonates born at the limits of viability due to immature organ function and unique pathophysiology. This immaturity may be particularly difficult in low and low middle income countries.  This issue will highlight our current understanding of organ development and function and address the complexities involved with managing and maturing these organ systems in all levels of resource settings. This review issue will summarize the basic translational, clinical, and epidemiologic studies addressing these issues.

 

This is an excellent opportunity for junior faculty to pair up with senior mentors to develop these reviews! Please note that a faculty member should be corresponding author so that Springer Nature can identify whether there is a possible Open Access option that is no cost to the authors. Otherwise, standard publication page fees are waived for manuscripts included in the Annual Review Issue!

 

Letters of intent should include a proposed title and be sent to info@pedres.org by the deadline. Please include “ARI 2026 Proposal” in the subject line. If proposal is accepted, initial manuscript drafts will be due December 1st, 2025.

 

 

With Warm Regards,

Cynthia F. Bearer

Editor-in-Chief

cynthia.bearer@pedres.org

 

Eleanor Molloy

Associate Editor-in-Chief

eleanor.molloy@pedres.org