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Editorial                                                                                                                                              Open Access

## The Path Ahead for the Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

Ole Jakob Storebø and Sven Bölte

Nearly  three  years  ago,  the Scandinavian  Journal  of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology (SJCAPP) went  online:  its  very  first  article  was  published  in March  2013.  The  number  of  articles  published  by the SJCAPP has grown steadily and will reach 20 in 2015. Our  journal  is hosted  by  the State  and University Library  in  Århus,  where  there  is  a  large Open  Journal Systems (OJS) server that hosts several  journals.  Furthermore,  a  new  and  much improved  version  of  the  OJS  software  (OJS  3.0 beta) is coming in 2016. This new version will have an improved user interface and include many other important changes.

The  SJCAPP  now  aims  to  increase  its  visibility and attractiveness as a means for the dissemination of excellent science by achieving indexing in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, and PubMed. To reach this  goal,  the  SJCAPP  will  receive  support  from  a professional publishing house. The support provided  will  also  include  advice  about  how  to increase citations, handle reference linking, allocation of digital object identifier (DOI) numbers,  and  use  metadata  distribution  to  crossreference  and  cross-check  certain  information.  We have received a grant from the Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorder at Karolinska Institutet  (KIND)  via  the Stiftelsen  Barnforskning in Stockholm (made possible by a generous donation from  Stephanie  and  Gustav  Bobeck  Arnhög)  to enable  this  support  to  occur  in  the  near  future.  If the  SJCAPP  is  indexed  by  Thomson  Reuters,  an official impact factor for the journal can be calculated after three years.

The  Thomson  Reuters  citation  data  makes  it possible to calculate an unofficial impact factor for the SJCAPP, even if the journal is not yet officially listed in the database. It is relatively straightforward to make this calculation by using the same formula that  is  used  for  the  official  calculation.  Thus,  in March  2016, we  will be able to calculate the unofficial 2015 impact factor for the SJCAPP.

The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with  which  the  'average  article'  in  a  journal  has been cited during a particular year or another time period.  The  annual  impact  factor  is  a  ratio  of  the actual citations to the recent citable items published. Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing  the  number  of  current-year  citations  of  a given journal by the number  of  source items published  in  that  journal  during  the  previous  two years (Table 1).

TABLE 1. Unofficial impact factor calculation for SJCAPP

- A = Total citations of SJCAPP in 2015
- B = 2015 citations of SJCAPP articles published in 2013 and 2014 (This is a subset of A)
- C = Number of SJCAPP articles published in 2013 and 2014
- D = B/C = Unofficial 2015 SJCAPP impact factor

As soon as it is possible to calculate the unofficial 2015  SJCAPP  impact  factor,  it  will  be  announced on the journal's homepage like this:

We  are  happy  to  have  experienced  increased interest  in  the  SJCAPP  as  indicated  by  a  steady progression  of  submissions.  One  strategy  that  we used to attract submissions, readership, and citations was  the composing  of  special journal issues.  The  third  of  these  special  issues  will  be published later this year and will address psychosis in  children  and  adolescents;  the  first  two  special issues covered autism and personality disorder. We hope that editorial strategies like this as well as our future  plans  for  the  journal  discussed  here  will prepare the SJCAPP to become a leading journal of childhood mental health in Europe and beyond.