TY - JOUR T1 - Publishing trends in World Journal of Pediatric Surgery JF - World Journal of Pediatric Surgery JO - World Jnl Ped Surgery DO - 10.1136/wjps-2022-000489 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - e000489 AU - Qi Qi AU - Robert Dorazio AU - Lili Yang AU - Yicheng Xie AU - Qiang Shu Y1 - 2022/09/01 UR - http://wjps.bmj.com/content/5/4/e000489.abstract N2 - In the era of evidence-based medicine, medical journals are the most respected sources of information for physicians and policymakers seeking and receiving evidence to guide clinical practice and decision-making.1 Within the field of pediatric surgery, there are several journals with a long history: Journal of Pediatric Surgery (JPS), which was created in 1966, Pediatric Surgery International (PSI) in 1986 and the European Journal of Pediatric Surgery (EJPS) in 1991. World Journal of Pediatric Surgery (WJPS) was established in 2018, when the first editorial was published online written by the Editor-in-Chief Dr Qiang Shu. WJPS mainly reports on advanced theoretical techniques and frontier achievements of high-quality basic and clinical research in pediatric surgery.WJPS is a quarterly issued journal. During the past 4 years (2018–2021), the journal has published 98 articles with increased yearly published items (3 articles in 2018, 26 in 2019, 33 in 2020 and 36 in 2021) (see table 1). Among them, most are original researches (n=56, 57.1%), followed by reviews (n=16, 16.3%), research letters (n=8, 8.2%), clinical images (n=7, 7.1%), editorials (n=7, 7.1%) and case reports (n=4, 4.1%). In the year of 2018, WJPS only published one issue with three articles. In 2019, the journal introduced a new category of research letter that includes concise, focused researches or descriptive studies that describe preliminary, but meaningful, findings. With the increasing volume of submissions, the journal published 9 review articles in 2020 and 23 original researches in 2021. Since 2020, WJPS no … ER -