Canavese F, de Moraes Barros Fucs PM, Johari AN. Paediatric orthopaedics: a special issue dedicated to current concepts and recent progress. Int Orthop. 2024 Jun;48(6):1367-1371. doi: 10.1007/s00264-024-06185-6. PMID: 38683379.

Pediatric orthopaedic and trauma surgery has undergone profound changes in recent years, and in some ways has come closer to its adult counterpart in terms of increasing hyperspecialization. Indeed, pediatric orthopaedic and trauma surgery has developed areas of hyperspecialization such as upper extremity/hand, spine, hip/lower extremity, foot/ankle, trauma, neuromuscular/genetic disorders, infections and tumours, as reflected in the number and quality of scientific publications and the emergence of subspecialty journals. From the beginning, the stated goal was to collect papers of high scientific quality, representative of the diverse academic and medical realities, covering clinical aspects and innovations in pediatric orthopaedic and trauma surgery. The various original articles were carefully analysed by 2 to 4 reviewers and 2 guest editors, one managing the review process and one acting as senior peer reviewer. This process ensured a careful, competent and transparent selection of the articles that the reader will find in this issue. The acceptance rate was less than 25%, with more than 130 papers submitted to the journal. The accepted papers came from four continents and authors from 35 different countries (Table 1).