Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC) is an international peer review journal that aims to keep paediatricians and others up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases as well as advocacy issues such as child protection. It focuses on all aspects of child health and disease from the perinatal period (in the Fetal and Neonatal edition) through to adolescence.

Areas covered include

1. community child health
2. acute paediatrics
3. advocacy
4. ethics
5. public health
6. epidemiology

ADC includes

1. original research reports
2. short reports and scientific letters
3. commentaries (perspectives)
4. reviews of clinical and policy issues
5. clinical problem solving (Archimedes)

1. international health
2. patients' experience with the healthcare system
3. abstracts from Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
4. summaries of important articles from other journals (Archivist and Lucina)

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1. Median time from submission to first decision = 5 weeks
   1. 50% of papers rejected without external peer review within 2 weeks
2. Time from acceptance to publication = 4 months
   1. Full original articles published Online First within 2 weeks

The Archives of Disease in Childhood is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.