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Archives of Disease in Childhood

S. Doukalli

26 December 2022

Archives of Disease in Childhood is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the BMJ Group and covering the field of paediatrics. It is the official journal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Douglas Gairdner served as editor from 1964 to 1979 and because of his creative editing, he was awarded the Dawson-Williams prize of the British Medical Association.


History	1926–present
Publisher	BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	3.258 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4	Arch. Dis. Child.
Indexing
CODEN	ADCHAK
ISSN	0003-9888 (print) 1468-2044 (web)
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed on MEDLINE/Index Medicus, Web of Science, and Excerpta Medica.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.258.

Latest articles from : Childhood

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