Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica

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Scandinavica is a well estab- lished journal of high repute and recognition.It is now in its 80th volume.It is a monthly journal, but also produces supplements of considerable expertise, which are a useful adjunct to the journal's overall annual volume.The journal contains a mixture of original articles, short communications, case reports of supposed interest and also an editorial comment where one paper per journal is subject to editorial review.This I find a very useful aspect of the journal as it often tackles papers which raise controversial points and discusses them in a dispassionate fashion.The book review in December 1990 was of little value considering the size of the book that was reviewed.Announcements and diaries in journals, I have never found useful.I find the journal extremely useful.It seems to me to fill the gap between a journal such as Archives of Disease in Childhood and Pediatric Research, which is very much laboratory or bench based research.Acta Paediatrica Scand- inavica seems to marry the two disciplines really rather well.I also find it rather more readable and understandable than Pediatric Research as the papers tend to be written very much more with the paediatric world in mind rather than the pure scientist.The neonatal population are a captive audience, akin to the laboratory rat, and in common with many other journals neo- natology papers are over represented in the December issue compared with the relative importance of neonatology throughout all of paediatrics.