European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT): three years as an Open Access journal

"It is now three years since we launched the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT). In December 2010, a handful of articles were published, forming volume 1. Since then, EJPT has shown a strong increase in the number of publications, citations, and downloads (see Olff & Bindslev, 2011; Olff 2012). As of December 2013, a total of 134 articles have been published, including clinical and basic research articles, review articles, editorials, and thematic clusters, including supplements (Fig. 1).  The rejection rate is approximately 40%. We aim to have the initial review completed within 4 weeks. Accepted manuscripts are published in their final version online approximately 4 weeks following the final editorial decision, depending on how quickly authors respond to inquiries ... the main topics covered are, not surprisingly, PTSD, trauma, and traumatic stress. These conditions are discussed in both clinical and more basic research-oriented papers, and in both adults and children, in various settings ... Since launch, the EJPT website has been visited almost 80,000 times by a little more than 50,000 unique visitors representing 178 countries. The journal receives an average of approximately 6,000 full-text views of articles per month from the journal website in addition to a nearly equivalent number via PubMed Central. Those accessing the journal are most commonly from the USA, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia, Norway, India, and Italy, closely followed by visitors from Switzerland, France, Denmark, Austria, Turkey, Poland, China, Israel, and Belgium.  To increase accessibility, the abstract of each article published in EJPT is translated into several languages, including French, Turkish, Spanish, German, Polish, and Russian. Upon request by our Chinese colleagues, we have now introduced Chinese translations of abstracts. Many thanks to our partners in Hangzhou, Drs Zhang, Liu, and Tan ..."