It has been published without interruption since Jornal de Pediatria publishes original articles and review articles covering various areas in the field of pediatrics.
By publishing relevant scientific contributions, Jornal de Pediatria aims at improving the standards of pediatrics and of the healthcare provided for children and adolescents in general, as well to foster debate about health.
The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
SRJ is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and qualitative measure of the journal's impact. SNIP measures contextual citation impact by wighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. Growth hormone is crucial for the attainment of normal growth and for adequate somatic development, which does not end concomitantly with linear growth.
Retesting adolescents who already meet the criteria that predict adult GHD with high specificity is not necessary. Patients with isolated idiopathic GHD in childhood are a special group who must be reevaluated for GHD as many of them have normal GH provocative tests upon retesting after puberty.
