Minerva Pediatrics is a bi-monthly international, peer-reviewed scientific journal on Pediatrics, Neonatology, Adolescent Medicine, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, founded in 1948, which is indexed in CAB, EMBASE, PubMed/MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus, and has an Impact factor of 2.387. Minerva Pediatrics is the most ancient international peer-reviewed journal in the field, and it publishes articles related to Pediatrics and all its various sub-disciplines, as well as the Proceedings of Pediatric Societies and special issues on particularly hot topics as also suggested by the guidelines of the Italian Society of Pediatrics (Società Italiana di Pediatria - SIP). The aim is to promote the diffusion of original investigations, while influencing the practice of clinicians, researchers, industries at an international level and providing its readers with papers of the highest quality thanks to a fast and thorough peer review process, careful editorial work as well as open access options. Minerva Pediatrics welcomes articles from a wide variety of topics related to Pediatrics, Neonatology, Adolescent Medicine, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which may be submitted in the form of editorials, original articles, review articles, special articles, letters to the Editor and guidelines.
