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Editorial                                                                                                                               Open Access

## The First Year with the Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

Ole Jakob Storebø and Sven Bölte

The Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry  and  Psychology  (SJCAPP)  is  now  one year old, and it is time to make a status report and also to revise our strategy for the future. The general  idea  behind  SJCAPP  was  to  create  an  openaccess, no publication-fee, fast-process, high-quality, online  scientific  journal  for  child  and  adolescent psychiatric  and  psychological  research  and  clinical practice. We strongly believe in open access as the future solution for research policy and practice. The latest  results  from  international  research  should  always be readily available to everyone, regardless of the economy  of  their university or institution. More-over, open access also increases the research impact of the publishing author (1).

The  choice  of  not  having  a  publication  fee  has been  possible  only  because  of  the  willingness  of many voluntary  contributors  and  the  positive  support from the Psychiatric Research Unit in Region Zealand,  Denmark.  We  hope  to  keep  things  this way as long as possible, but we realize that we may need some economy when the number of submissions grows. When we established SJCAPP, we had an unofficial goal as a young journal of publishing five to six articles during the first year, doubling that the next year, and then gradually converging toward publishing one article per week. We ended up publishing seven scientific papers during the first year, which we consider to be a good result. All of these papers  have  been  downloaded  a  large  number  of times. In fact, as of November 1, 2013, there have been  4939  article  downloads  from  SJCAPP  since the first article was uploaded. It has also been interesting to follow the activity on the SJCAPP site using  tools  such  as  Google  Analytics  (2).  Two  main conclusions can be drawn from this: The readers of SJCAPP come from all over the world, and interest in SJCAPP has been steadily increasing.

Being indexed or abstracted in the large databases is of highest priority for SJCAPP. In 2013 the journal  was  indexed  in  NOAP  and  PKP.  The  journal can  be  searched  on  Summon,  Google,  Google Scholar,  and  worldcat.org. We  will  continue  to  expand  our  accessibility  in  2014  by  sending  applications  for  indexing  to  PubMed,  DOAJ,  Index  Copernicus,  and  Journal  TOCs.  We  also  have  a  very distinct goal of finally having the journal indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and receiving an  impact  factor.  Even  prior  to  establishment  of PubMed  indexing  for  the  journal  overall,  authors can  submit  the  accepted  versions  of  their  manuscripts  to  PubMed  Central  (PMC)  in  compliance with the U.S. NIH Public Access Policy.

We are fortunate to have an extremely competent group of section editors and reviewers, and we are grateful for their contributions to the quality of the journal.

There is a plan for five special issues of SJCAPP to be published during the next two years. One special issue will focus on personality disorders in adolescents and will be guest-edited by Erik Simonsen and Mickey Kongerslev and overseen by Ole Jakob Storebø; the second, which will address the autism spectrum,  will  be  guest-edited  by  Angela  Reiersen and  overseen  by  Sven  Bölte;  the  third  issue  about psychosis in children and adolescents will be guestedited by Ulrik Haahr and overseen by Sune Bo; the fourth issue, which will focus on attentiondeficit/hyperactivity  disorder,  will  be  guest-edited by Niels Bilenberg and overseen by Sven Bölte; and the fifth issue about attachment and psychopathology in children and adolescents will be guest-edited by Pernille Darling Rasmussen and overseen by Ole Jakob Storebø. We are optimistic that these special issues will further strengthen the profile of SJCAPP; a  special  call  for  papers  is  planned  for  each  of  the issues  and  will  be  sent  to  experts  in  the  respective fields.

We  are  currently  discussing  additional  possibilities for the future development of the journal. We plan to  inform researchers  about  the  journal  at  international  conferences.  The  journal's  website  will  be enriched and more user-friendly, and we will engage a  web  editor  to  improve  the  interface.  Increased interconnection  of  the  journal  with  various  social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, is on  our  agenda.  The  proposed  twin  impact  factor may be  a  useful  and  timely  metric  to  measure  the uptake  of  research  findings  and  to  filter  scientific findings for communication with the public (3). We now have two social  media  editors,  Trine  Danvad Nilausen and Erica Ramstad, who will help us with this process.

## References

1. Bernius S. The impact of open access on the management of scientific knowledge. Online Information Review 2010;34:583-603.
2. http://www.google.com/analytics (September 27, 2013)
3. Eysenbach G. Can tweets predict citations? Metrics  of social impact  based  on  Twitter  and  correlation  with  traditional  metrics  of scientific impact. J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e123.