About the Journal

Aims and Scope

Trends in Pediatrics (TP) is the official peer-reviewed publication in accordance with independent, unbiased, and double-blinded peer-review principles of the Aydın Pediatric Society. The publication language of the journal is English. TP started to be published in 2020.

This journal is published electronically and quarterly as 4 issues every year in March, June, September, December.

Trend in Pediatrics aims to help physicians keep abreast of the latest development in pediatric medicine. TP also publishes studies on the surgical, genetic, physiologic, mental and social structures of children.

Trends in Pediatrics is currently indexed in Scopus, TR Index, Türkiye Atıf Dizini, J-Gate, Türk Medline, and Gale.

The editorial and publication process of the Trends in Pediatrics (TP) are shaped in accordance with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The journal is in conformity with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

Open Access Policy

Northwestern Medical Journal is an open access journal. All articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors retain copyright of their published article. By this means open access ensures more reuse and citation, higher visibility and discoverability, greater engagement, immediate impact, increased interdisciplinary work and wider collaboration.

Northwestern Medical Journal adopts the Open Access Declaration published by Budapest Open Access Initiative in Feb, 2002.

“By ‘open access’ to this [research] literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

Publisher guarantees not to charge any reader or library a subscription fee and a fee for access to published electronic articles.

Material Disclaimer

Statements or opinions stated in articles published in the journal do not reflect the views of the editors, editorial board and/or publisher; The editors, editorial board and publisher do not accept any responsibility or liability for such materials. All opinions published in the journal belong to the authors.

Journal History

Trends in Pediatrics (TP) is the official peer-reviewed publication of the Aydın Pediatric Society. The publication language of the journal is English. TP started to be published in 2020, and aims to help physicians keep abreast of the latest development in pediatric medicine. TP also publishes studies on the surgical, genetic, physiologic, mental and social structures of children.

TP accepts original articles, case reports, letters to the editor and invited review articles.

TP does not charge any article submission or processing charges. For further information you can check “Open Access Policy” page from publishing policies tabs.

ISSN: 2792-0429 (Online)

Article Processing Charge

No fee is charged from the authors during the submission, evaluation and publication process. Journal practices, ethical rules, technical information and necessary forms are specified on the journal's web page.

The manuscripts must be submitted via the Journal Agent online article system, represented on the journal website.

Abstracting and Indexing

  • Scopus
  • TR Index
  • Türkiye Atıf Dizini
  • J-Gate
  • Türk Medline
  • Gale

Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that ensure the retrieval and distribution of information now available in digital formats to guarantee long-term, perpetual access. The preservation policy includes the following measures:

Website archiving

All of the electronic content (website, manuscript, etc.) is stored in three different sources. Content on a server is online and accessible to readers. A copy of the same content is preserved as a backup on two other sources. Should a server fail, other resources can be brought online, and the website is expected to be available in 24-36 hours.

Abstracting/Indexing services

Our journal's Abstracting/Indexing services store essential information about articles. In addition, some of our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services archive metadata about the article and electronic versions of the articles.In this way, copies of articles are presented to the scientific community through these systems as an alternative to journals.