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Michigan State University
As my second term as editor of the IMHJ comes to an end, I also end a relationship with the journal that went well beyond the privilege of serving twice as its editor. I have served either on the editorial board, as an associate editor, or as editor-in-chief for every issue published since the IMHJ was founded in 1980 as the official journal of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health. As the Executive Director of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health, I was directly involved in moving the journal from Human Sciences Press to Clinical Psychology Publishing Company, and subsequently to Wiley-Blackwell when the IAIMH merged with the World Association of Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines and formed the World Association for Infant Mental Health. The extraordinary number of individuals with whom I have had contact is just amazing and I particularly enjoyed playing even the most minor role in helping new investigators move their research to the public arena of peer-reviewed scholarship. The IMHJ’s new Editor-in-Chief, Paul Spicer, is the fifth individual to serve as editor of the journal. His predecessors Jack Stack (1980–81), Sharon Bradley Johnson (1982), Hiram Fitzgerald (1983–85), Joy D. Osofsky (1986–2009) and Hiram Fitzgerald (2010–2014) have each written pages in the IMHJ’s history and contributed to its emergence as a leading journal exclusively focused on the social-emotional development of the infant and very young child. Each was assisted with outstanding associate editors and editorial boards who collaboratively worked to advance the IMHJ’s status as a signature peer-reviewed journal that reflects disciplinary and cultural diversity, the breath of clinical science and practice, and a strong biopsychosocial perspective on infant development and parent-infant relationships. Paul is a cultural anthropologist whose research and practice work with American Indian/Alaska Native very young children and their families illustrates how strongly clinical science can bridge the practice and policy domains. As editor of the IMHJ he will shape its direction for the next five years, craft his story, and add new dimensions to the IMHJ’s historical record. Paul is both a research colleague and friend and I wish him well in his new challenge.
During the past five years significant changes have occurred in the life of the Infant Mental Health Journal (IMHJ). Perhaps the appearance of the journal was the easiest to notice. We changed the size of the journal from 6 by 9 inches to 8.5 by 11 inches, and eliminated translated abstracts to on-line availability only. These changes increased the number of articles published in each volume from 6.7 to 9.5 per year, which produced a net increase of 18 articles per volume with no changes in total page allocations for the year. Increasing the number of articles published per year also markedly decreased the time period from article submission to article publication to an average of 85 days. Publishing abstracts in 5 languages was one of the defining characteristics of the IMHJ and the decision to move translations to on-line access only was an error that is rescinded with this issue. In fact, we have not only restored printed translations, we have added Arabic and Chinese translations to further expand the international reach of the clinical science of infant mental health. A second change focused on content areas, specifically, we explicitly encouraged more submissions on the neurobiology of social-emotional development; longitudinal outcome studies; clinical studies grounded in strong qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies; the impact of cultural context on early development; systematic studies of the impact of fathers on early childhood development; and community based research and/or clinical studies that advance knowledge about the development of infants and very young children in their everyday environments. Contributions have increased in each of these areas to varying degrees within the context of individual articles, within issue special focus sections, and entire guest-edited special issues. I was particularly pleased that Erika Bocknek and her colleagues guestedited a special issue on fathers (Bocknek, Hossain, & Roggman, 2014), continuing the IMHJ’s tradition of recognizing that fathers play a critical parenting role during early childhood (see Fitzgerald & McGreal, 1981; Fitzgerald, Mann, & Barratt, 1999). Direct correspondence to: Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, 219 South Harrison Road, Room 93, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; e-mail: [email protected].
INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, Vol. 35(6), 527–528 (2014) C 2014 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21482
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REFERENCES Fitzgerald, H.E., & McGreal, C.E. (Eds.). (1981). Fathers and infants (Special Issue). Infant Mental Health Journal, 2, 214–296. Fitzgerald, H.E., Mann, T., & Barratt, M. (Eds.) (1999). Fathers and infants (Special Issue). Infant Mental Health Journal, 20, 213–347. Bocknek, E.L., Hossain, Z., & Roggman, L. (Eds.) (2014). Very young children and their fathers (Special Issue). Infant Mental Health Journal, 35(5), 389–526.
Infant Mental Health Journal DOI 10.1002/imhj. Published on behalf of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.
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Michigan State University
As my second term as editor of the IMHJ comes to an end, I also end a relationship with the journal that went well beyond the privilege of serving twice as its editor. I have served either on the editorial board, as an associate editor, or as editor-in-chief for every issue published since the IMHJ was founded in 1980 as the official journal of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health. As the Executive Director of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health, I was directly involved in moving the journal from Human Sciences Press to Clinical Psychology Publishing Company, and subsequently to Wiley-Blackwell when the IAIMH merged with the World Association of Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines and formed the World Association for Infant Mental Health. The extraordinary number of individuals with whom I have had contact is just amazing and I particularly enjoyed playing even the most minor role in helping new investigators move their research to the public arena of peer-reviewed scholarship. The IMHJ’s new Editor-in-Chief, Paul Spicer, is the fifth individual to serve as editor of the journal. His predecessors Jack Stack (1980–81), Sharon Bradley Johnson (1982), Hiram Fitzgerald (1983–85), Joy D. Osofsky (1986–2009) and Hiram Fitzgerald (2010–2014) have each written pages in the IMHJ’s history and contributed to its emergence as a leading journal exclusively focused on the social-emotional development of the infant and very young child. Each was assisted with outstanding associate editors and editorial boards who collaboratively worked to advance the IMHJ’s status as a signature peer-reviewed journal that reflects disciplinary and cultural diversity, the breath of clinical science and practice, and a strong biopsychosocial perspective on infant development and parent-infant relationships. Paul is a cultural anthropologist whose research and practice work with American Indian/Alaska Native very young children and their families illustrates how strongly clinical science can bridge the practice and policy domains. As editor of the IMHJ he will shape its direction for the next five years, craft his story, and add new dimensions to the IMHJ’s historical record. Paul is both a research colleague and friend and I wish him well in his new challenge.
During the past five years significant changes have occurred in the life of the Infant Mental Health Journal (IMHJ). Perhaps the appearance of the journal was the easiest to notice. We changed the size of the journal from 6 by 9 inches to 8.5 by 11 inches, and eliminated translated abstracts to on-line availability only. These changes increased the number of articles published in each volume from 6.7 to 9.5 per year, which produced a net increase of 18 articles per volume with no changes in total page allocations for the year. Increasing the number of articles published per year also markedly decreased the time period from article submission to article publication to an average of 85 days. Publishing abstracts in 5 languages was one of the defining characteristics of the IMHJ and the decision to move translations to on-line access only was an error that is rescinded with this issue. In fact, we have not only restored printed translations, we have added Arabic and Chinese translations to further expand the international reach of the clinical science of infant mental health. A second change focused on content areas, specifically, we explicitly encouraged more submissions on the neurobiology of social-emotional development; longitudinal outcome studies; clinical studies grounded in strong qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies; the impact of cultural context on early development; systematic studies of the impact of fathers on early childhood development; and community based research and/or clinical studies that advance knowledge about the development of infants and very young children in their everyday environments. Contributions have increased in each of these areas to varying degrees within the context of individual articles, within issue special focus sections, and entire guest-edited special issues. I was particularly pleased that Erika Bocknek and her colleagues guestedited a special issue on fathers (Bocknek, Hossain, & Roggman, 2014), continuing the IMHJ’s tradition of recognizing that fathers play a critical parenting role during early childhood (see Fitzgerald & McGreal, 1981; Fitzgerald, Mann, & Barratt, 1999). Direct correspondence to: Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, 219 South Harrison Road, Room 93, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; e-mail: [email protected].
INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, Vol. 35(6), 527–528 (2014) C 2014 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21482
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H.E. Fitzgerald
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO Publishing) PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA) PSYNDEX (ZPID) SCOPUS (Elsevier)
•
Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters) Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts (T&F)
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Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)
REFERENCES Fitzgerald, H.E., & McGreal, C.E. (Eds.). (1981). Fathers and infants (Special Issue). Infant Mental Health Journal, 2, 214–296. Fitzgerald, H.E., Mann, T., & Barratt, M. (Eds.) (1999). Fathers and infants (Special Issue). Infant Mental Health Journal, 20, 213–347. Bocknek, E.L., Hossain, Z., & Roggman, L. (Eds.) (2014). Very young children and their fathers (Special Issue). Infant Mental Health Journal, 35(5), 389–526.
Infant Mental Health Journal DOI 10.1002/imhj. Published on behalf of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.
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