Look again, and not just at behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy.

Take a look at our circulation and impact! As a journal we are high on circulation (about 10000 print copies including those to members, and an additional very substantial on-line readership). Our impact factor, which reflects the extent of attention our articles get in terms of citations by researchers worldwide, has been modest but steadily increasing. We are pleased to announce a further improvement in our Impact factor, from a healthy 1.491 in the previous year to its current 1.692. The Journal has also climbed 10 places in its subject category (Psychology, Clinical) and is now ranked higher than Cognitive Therapy and Research. This places us in an excellent position in the field. This is extremely good news, as it means that we are even more likely to be a target for high quality articles with the combination of good academic quality and clinical relevance. I notice that some other journals, notably Behaviour Research and Therapy and Journal of Anxiety Disorders will, as a matter of policy, no longer consider papers that include a major component of scale/questionnaire development. Please note that Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and our sister journal, the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, are very happy to look at such submissions, both in terms of the development of clinically useful scales and in studies where the absence of measures requires the development and validation of an existing measure in order to investigate particular hypotheses or issues. Which brings me to the complementary role we have as a journal. As Editor of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, the BABCP journal with a more academic and applied science emphasis, I am delighted at the way in which our sister journal, the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, has developed and grown under the expert guidance of Michael Townend and his editorial team. Having established the journal, Michael is stepping down in 2013, with a successor yet to be decided. We are all grateful to Michael for the solid foundations he has established. Readers and contributors to Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy would do well to look at how the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist has developed. We have been working alongside tCBT for a while now, and wish to take this opportunity to announce closer integration of submissions. At present, Associate Editors for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy can choose to recommend resubmission of a manuscript not suitable for BCP to tCBT, which requires authors to begin the submission process again. This informal re-submission channel will henceforth be streamlined for those who indicate that they wish to be part of a revised submission process for BCP, with authors being asked at submission to decide whether they wish their submissions to be considered for tCBT, and to allow transfer of the manuscript including, as appropriate, transmission of reviewers’ comments (at the discretion of the BCP Associate Editor) where this seems likely to facilitate manuscript handling. We will add an additional decision option to BCP manuscript handling, that of consideration by tCBT editors. This means that, in effect, those who choose to do so can submit to both journals sequentially.