EDITOR’S CORNER
Rejuvenation: Editor’s Annual Report—Volume 52, 2013
I
t has become an annual rite of spring for your editor to submit to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Council a list of names for slots on the Journal’s Editorial Board. The editor develops a list of candidates, but the Council ultimately approves the individual nominations. Pathways to the list are straightforward and transparent. A strong trajectory reviewing manuscripts (for quantity and quality) is the surest way in. This year’s 5 new Editorial Board members are emblematic of this route of arrival, and their names will appear on the masthead starting with next month’s issue. Their terms will be for 3 years, with the possibility of renewal to a second and final term. So far, this represents “business as usual,” and by precedent I generally do not single them out here. But I will break tradition by naming 3 of them: Argyris Stringaris, Guilherme Polancyk, and Benjamin Goldstein. My reason to do so is deliberate—and celebratory. These 3 gentlemen, trusted veterans of our peer-review operation, share a particular commonality: they reside abroad. For the first 51 years of the Journal’s history, non–US-based members have not been part of the Editorial Board. There have been a few noteworthy exceptions: during Melvin Lewis’s tenure as editor, Sir Michael Rutter served as European Consultant from 1982 through 1987, and since 2008 we have had 6 International Editors-at-Large as part of the masthead. However, Argyris, Guilherme, and Ben will be the first international members (from the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Canada, respectively) to serve as full members of the Journal’s Editorial Board. Congratulations to Argyris, Guilherme, and Ben. More to the point, congratulations to all of us for recognizing that the Journal is American in name only, and that the world is flatter and more global today than could have been dreamed of when these pages were founded in 1962. Thank you to the Academy’s Executive
Committee and Council for formalizing the Journal’s globalization by approving these first international nominations. The Editorial Board’s rotating schedule ensures the renewal of energies and areas of expertise devoted to the Journal. The pool from which such talent is drawn has become not only more international but also younger. Six contributing editors charged with preparing the monthly Here and There and podcast features are young child and adolescent psychiatrists within a few years of completing their training. They, too, have rotated periodically, several ultimately graduating into the Editorial Board. With next month’s issue, 2 “alumni” of the program will trade places as John F. McDermott Assistant Editors-inResidence, when Michelle Horner succeeds Stacy Drury in that position. The assistant editorship-in-residence, an endowed position named after John F. McDermott, Jr., the Journal’s fourth editor, is among my most cherished milestones as its sixth. Each of the 2 initial assistant editors-in-residence, Schuyler Henderson and Stacy Drury, not only learned the ropes of editing along the way of their tenures, but in so doing left an indelible mark on the Journal as well. Michelle Horner will be no exception, and the focus of her personal project promises to be especially lasting: JAACAP Connect, a new feature developed by and for trainees and early career psychiatrists. In preparing this much-needed new venture, Michelle will be supported by a wide group of collaborators, many drawn from the AACAP Medical Student and Resident and Early Career Committees. I encourage all our readers to visit this online-only quarterly supplement to the Journal and to encourage submissions from, or work together in preparing them with, our younger members. The Journal’s vitality continues to be reflected in healthy bibliometrics, as summarized in Table 1. The work of a large group of dedicated
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TABLE 1
JAACAP Vital Statistics: Manuscript, Peer Review, Impact Factor, and Circulation Trends, 2004 Through 2012 2005a
2006
2007
2008
2009
— 53 41 3.529
483 34 112 20 — — 29 — 4.113
577 37 137 22 299 24 32 34 4.767
612 42 132 25 431 20 20 32 4.655
650 38 119 24 396 18 17 33 4.845
604 45 96 25 402 19 19 31 4.983
2 (70) 15 (90) 7 (60)
2 (73) 15 (94) 5 (60)
2 (74) 10 (95) 4 (60)
1 (78) 11 (94) 7 (61)
1 (85) 10 (101) 4 (61)
1 (94) 14 (117) 7 (70)
9,949 —
9,466 —
9,252 —
9,648 —
9,499 —
9,790 —
— — —
— — —
— — —
— — —
— — —
— — —
2004 Total new manuscripts received, n Non-US submissions, % Total new research and review articles published, n Non-US research and review articles published, % Peer reviewers, n Average time to complete review, days Receipt to first decision Acceptance rate, % Impact factor Rank (total journals in category) Pediatrics Psychiatry Psychologyc Circulation, n Print Online institutional subscriptions JAACAP.org, average per month Visits Unique visitors Page views Full-text article requests Science Direct, n Full-text article requests (per year) Full-text article requests (average per month)
450 41 144 19
2011
2012
538 46 101 29 390 20 20 28 5.148
569 46 95 24 361 18 19 31 6.444
598 45 92 27 434 18 22 29 6.970
2 (107) 13 (126) 7 (73) 9,137 119
1 (113) 8 (129) 5 (75) 9,025 360
1 (121) 9 (135) 6 (75) 9,579 440
28,295 24,871 87,386 NA
36,385 31,161 105,985 2,077
37,487 31,214 102,637 2,447
77,026 6,419
286,642 23,887
369,530 30,794
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Note: NA ¼ not available. a Year of transition to online submission and review. b First year published by Elsevier. c The Journal is not ranked in psychology. Numbers show where it would appear in the ranking.
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professionals drives those numbers and the monthly arrival of information I hope readers find novel, interesting, and clinically relevant and applicable. My abiding gratitude to my associate and deputy editors, all members of the masthead, our many timely and selfless reviewers, authors who place their trust in us, and a hard-working and exquisitely precise editorial office. Feeling duly rejuvenated, we return with gusto to the task of advancing the science of
pediatric mental health and promoting the care of youth and their families. &
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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF C HILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY VOLUME 52 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2013
Rejuvenation: Editor’s Annual Report—Volume 52, 2013
I
t has become an annual rite of spring for your editor to submit to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Council a list of names for slots on the Journal’s Editorial Board. The editor develops a list of candidates, but the Council ultimately approves the individual nominations. Pathways to the list are straightforward and transparent. A strong trajectory reviewing manuscripts (for quantity and quality) is the surest way in. This year’s 5 new Editorial Board members are emblematic of this route of arrival, and their names will appear on the masthead starting with next month’s issue. Their terms will be for 3 years, with the possibility of renewal to a second and final term. So far, this represents “business as usual,” and by precedent I generally do not single them out here. But I will break tradition by naming 3 of them: Argyris Stringaris, Guilherme Polancyk, and Benjamin Goldstein. My reason to do so is deliberate—and celebratory. These 3 gentlemen, trusted veterans of our peer-review operation, share a particular commonality: they reside abroad. For the first 51 years of the Journal’s history, non–US-based members have not been part of the Editorial Board. There have been a few noteworthy exceptions: during Melvin Lewis’s tenure as editor, Sir Michael Rutter served as European Consultant from 1982 through 1987, and since 2008 we have had 6 International Editors-at-Large as part of the masthead. However, Argyris, Guilherme, and Ben will be the first international members (from the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Canada, respectively) to serve as full members of the Journal’s Editorial Board. Congratulations to Argyris, Guilherme, and Ben. More to the point, congratulations to all of us for recognizing that the Journal is American in name only, and that the world is flatter and more global today than could have been dreamed of when these pages were founded in 1962. Thank you to the Academy’s Executive
Committee and Council for formalizing the Journal’s globalization by approving these first international nominations. The Editorial Board’s rotating schedule ensures the renewal of energies and areas of expertise devoted to the Journal. The pool from which such talent is drawn has become not only more international but also younger. Six contributing editors charged with preparing the monthly Here and There and podcast features are young child and adolescent psychiatrists within a few years of completing their training. They, too, have rotated periodically, several ultimately graduating into the Editorial Board. With next month’s issue, 2 “alumni” of the program will trade places as John F. McDermott Assistant Editors-inResidence, when Michelle Horner succeeds Stacy Drury in that position. The assistant editorship-in-residence, an endowed position named after John F. McDermott, Jr., the Journal’s fourth editor, is among my most cherished milestones as its sixth. Each of the 2 initial assistant editors-in-residence, Schuyler Henderson and Stacy Drury, not only learned the ropes of editing along the way of their tenures, but in so doing left an indelible mark on the Journal as well. Michelle Horner will be no exception, and the focus of her personal project promises to be especially lasting: JAACAP Connect, a new feature developed by and for trainees and early career psychiatrists. In preparing this much-needed new venture, Michelle will be supported by a wide group of collaborators, many drawn from the AACAP Medical Student and Resident and Early Career Committees. I encourage all our readers to visit this online-only quarterly supplement to the Journal and to encourage submissions from, or work together in preparing them with, our younger members. The Journal’s vitality continues to be reflected in healthy bibliometrics, as summarized in Table 1. The work of a large group of dedicated
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TABLE 1
JAACAP Vital Statistics: Manuscript, Peer Review, Impact Factor, and Circulation Trends, 2004 Through 2012 2005a
2006
2007
2008
2009
— 53 41 3.529
483 34 112 20 — — 29 — 4.113
577 37 137 22 299 24 32 34 4.767
612 42 132 25 431 20 20 32 4.655
650 38 119 24 396 18 17 33 4.845
604 45 96 25 402 19 19 31 4.983
2 (70) 15 (90) 7 (60)
2 (73) 15 (94) 5 (60)
2 (74) 10 (95) 4 (60)
1 (78) 11 (94) 7 (61)
1 (85) 10 (101) 4 (61)
1 (94) 14 (117) 7 (70)
9,949 —
9,466 —
9,252 —
9,648 —
9,499 —
9,790 —
— — —
— — —
— — —
— — —
— — —
— — —
2004 Total new manuscripts received, n Non-US submissions, % Total new research and review articles published, n Non-US research and review articles published, % Peer reviewers, n Average time to complete review, days Receipt to first decision Acceptance rate, % Impact factor Rank (total journals in category) Pediatrics Psychiatry Psychologyc Circulation, n Print Online institutional subscriptions JAACAP.org, average per month Visits Unique visitors Page views Full-text article requests Science Direct, n Full-text article requests (per year) Full-text article requests (average per month)
450 41 144 19
2011
2012
538 46 101 29 390 20 20 28 5.148
569 46 95 24 361 18 19 31 6.444
598 45 92 27 434 18 22 29 6.970
2 (107) 13 (126) 7 (73) 9,137 119
1 (113) 8 (129) 5 (75) 9,025 360
1 (121) 9 (135) 6 (75) 9,579 440
28,295 24,871 87,386 NA
36,385 31,161 105,985 2,077
37,487 31,214 102,637 2,447
77,026 6,419
286,642 23,887
369,530 30,794
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EDITOR’S CORNER
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Note: NA ¼ not available. a Year of transition to online submission and review. b First year published by Elsevier. c The Journal is not ranked in psychology. Numbers show where it would appear in the ranking.
2010b
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professionals drives those numbers and the monthly arrival of information I hope readers find novel, interesting, and clinically relevant and applicable. My abiding gratitude to my associate and deputy editors, all members of the masthead, our many timely and selfless reviewers, authors who place their trust in us, and a hard-working and exquisitely precise editorial office. Feeling duly rejuvenated, we return with gusto to the task of advancing the science of
pediatric mental health and promoting the care of youth and their families. &
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