1. Chinese Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics flipped to open access mode from the 1st issue in 2025. Once an article is published, readers can immediately and permanently read and download it for free via the journal's official website. All articles published from 2015 to 2024 are converted to open-access works and are available for free reading and downloading on this website. Beginning with Issue 1 of 2025, full-text English translations of all papers are provided on the English website for online reading and downloading, and these translated articles are also open-access works.
2. Some articles published between 2000 and 2014 are free to read and download in full-text on this website, but these articles are not open access works. The copyright of these articles belongs to the Editorial Office of Chinese Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics, which reserves all rights.
3. For all open access articles published by this journal, permitted authors and third-party reuse of the articles is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms below are followed: reusers must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Reusers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use. Reusers may not use the material for commercial purposes. If reusers remix, transform, or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
4. Authors must sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement, agree to publish their paper in Chinese Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics, and agree to transfer the copyright of the article—including but not limited to the rights of reproduction, distribution, and communication through information networks—worldwide to the Editorial Office of Chinese Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics for the term of copyright protection period. Authors have no objection to the Editorial Office of Chinese Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics using the paper in electronic journals, CD-ROMs, or other formats.
Authors should agree to the journal’s open access policy, under which the author and third-party users have the right to reproduce and disseminate articles under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License.
5. In addition to the open access on the official journal website, the full texts of the journal's articles are also stored in CNKI, Wanfang Database, CQVIP, PubMed Central (PMC), etc. Readers can also access the above-mentioned databases and platforms to obtain the articles published by the journal. Moreover, it is allowed for authors to deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of the authors' choice. However, it is necessary to indicate the article was initially published in this Journal.