About this journal

Aims and scope

Fetal and Pediatric Pathology is an established bimonthly international journal that publishes data on diseases of the developing embryo, newborns, children, and adolescents. The journal publishes original and review articles and reportable case reports.

The expanded scope of the journal encompasses molecular basis of genetic disorders; molecular basis of diseases that lead to implantation failures; molecular basis of abnormal placentation; placentology and molecular basis of habitual abortion; intrauterine development and molecular basis of embryonic death; pathogenisis and etiologic factors involved in sudden infant death syndrome; the underlying molecular basis, and pathogenesis of diseases that lead to morbidity and mortality in newborns; prenatal, perinatal, and pediatric diseases and molecular basis of diseases of childhood including solid tumors and tumors of the hematopoietic system; and experimental and molecular pathology.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 41K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.8 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 3.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.523 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.351 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 11 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 49 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 17% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Mai (Mike) He, MD, PhD

Section Head and Fellowship Director, Pediatric Pathology

Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Pathologist-in-chief, St. Louis Children’s Hospital

USA 

Associate Editors

Miguel A. Guzman, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, USA

Archana Shenoy, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Director, Laboratory Services Outreach, Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, OH, USA

Sara Szabo, MD, PhD - Cincinnati, OH, USA

Emeritus Editor-in-Chief and Founder

Enid Gilbert-Barness, AO, MD, FRCPA, FRCPath, DSci(hc), MD(hc)

Honorary Editors

Randall Craver, MD - New Orleans, LA, USA 

Thora Steffensen, Tampa, FL

Editorial Board

Rudolfo Begue, MD - New Orleans, LA, USA

Serdar Beken, MD - Istanbul, Turkey

Meena Bhattacharjee, MD - San Antonio, TX, USA

Elizabeth C. Burton, MD - Dallas, TX, USA

Robert Christensen, MD - St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Aaron Hamvas, MD - St. Louis, MO, USA

Asha J. Heard, MD, MPH, FACOG - New Orleans, LA, USA

Stephen Heinrich, MD - New Orleans, LA, USA

Mark Kayton, MD - West Palm Beach, FL, USA

Heather Keir, Consultant Paediatric & Perinatal Pathologist, Clinical Lead for Paediatric Histopathology, Department of Paediatric Histopathology, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, UK

Stefan Kostadinov, Associate Professor, Director, Don B. Singer Fellowship in Developmental and Perinatal Pathology, the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA

Atilano Lacson, MD, FRCPC - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Elizabeth Manci, MD - Mobile, AL, USA

Juan Putra, MD - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Roy H. Rhodes, MD, PhD - New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Laura Penna Rocha, MSc, PhD - Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Bruce Schnapf, MD - Tampa, FL, USA

Amy Sheil, MD - Waukesha, WI, USA

Matthew Stark, MD - New Orleans, LA, USA

Thomas Stocker, COL(R), MC - Bethesda, MD, USA

Gabriele Tonni, PhD, MD - Irccs Reggio Emilia, Italy

Regina M. Zambrano, MD - New Orleans, LA, USA

Arthur Zieske, MD - Houston, TX, USA

Abstracting and indexing

• Adis International Ltd.
• EBSCOhost
• EMBASE, Priority
• Scopus
• International Atomic Energy Agency; INIS Collection Search (International Nuclear Information System)
• National Library of Medicine; PubMed/MEDLINE
• OCLC
• Personal Alert (E-mail)
• ProQuest
• Thomson Reuters; Biological Abstracts (Online), BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents, Science Citation Index Expanded, Web of Science

Open access

Fetal and Pediatric Pathology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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