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Call for papers - Hormonal disorders in childhood and adolescence

Guest Editors

Zeynep Şıklar, MD, PhD, Ankara University, Turkey
Gerdi Tuli, MD, PhD, Regina Margherita Children’s Hospital, Italy

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 28 July 2025


BMC Pediatrics is calling for submissions to our Collection on Hormonal disorders in childhood and adolescence.
 
Hormonal disorders can significantly impact the development and well-being of children and adolescents. The various pediatric stages, including childhood, prepuberty, and adolescence, exhibit distinct and complex hormonal profiles that pose challenges for diagnosing and managing endocrinological disorders.

Therefore, BMC Pediatrics is launching this collection which aims to present advances and challenges in current research on pediatric hormonal disorders and their effective interventions and management.
We welcome submissions from various disciplines, including endocrinology, genetics, nutrition, psychology and psychiatry, health service research, and public health.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Zeynep Şıklar, MD, PhD, Ankara University, Turkey

Dr Zeynep Şiklar received her medical education at Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine and then received training in pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology. She is a faculty member in the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine. Dr Şiklar is currently a member of ESPE and the Turkish Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Association. Her main research interests include adrenal diseases, disorders of sexual development, bone metabolism, growth, and puberty.

Gerdi Tuli, MD, PhD, Regina Margherita Children’s Hospital, Italy

Dr Gerdi Tuli is a pediatric endocrinologist with clinical and research activity at the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology of Regina Margherita Children’s Hospital of Turin, Italy. His main clinical and research areas include thyroid disease (both congenital and acquired), pituitary disorders (both congenital and acquired), endocrine tumours (pituitary, thyroid, adrenal), and endocrine late-effects in childhood cancer survivors. Dr Tuli's research is developed through independent activity in his own Department and multicentre activity in the Study Groups of the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology.

About the Collection

BMC Pediatrics is calling for submissions to our Collection on Hormonal disorders in childhood and adolescence.

Hormonal disorders can significantly impact the development and well-being of children and adolescents. The various pediatric stages, including childhood, prepuberty, and adolescence, exhibit distinct and complex hormonal profiles that pose challenges for diagnosing and managing endocrinological disorders.

Therefore, BMC Pediatrics is launching this collection which aims to present advances and challenges in current research on pediatric hormonal disorders and their effective interventions and management. We welcome submissions from various disciplines, including endocrinology, genetics, nutrition, psychology and psychiatry, health service research, and public health. Potential topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Diagnosis and management of hormonal disorders in children and adolescents during their growth and pubertal development
  • Identification of unknown underlying genetic conditions leading to abnormal functioning of endocrine glands
  • Assessment of epigenetic and environmental influences on the endocrine system
  • Understanding psychiatric manifestations of endocrine disorders and their effective interventions
  • Case reports and case series presenting rare hormonal disorders and their treatment approaches
  • Perspectives on public health highlighting disparities in access to care, preventive strategies, and sustainable solutions


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  2. This study used latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the potential patterns of unhealthy lifestyle factors (ULFs) and their association with overweight and obesity in children and adolescents with overweight...

    Authors: Qiong Wang, Min Yang, Kening Chen, Fangjieyi Zheng, Zhixin Zhang and Wenquan Niu
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2025 25:226
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Hormonal disorders in childhood and adolescence" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.