Catalyzing the publication of international research in child and adolescent mental health

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (CAPMH) has recently become the official journal of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). This joint venture can have profound implications for the flourishing of scientific research on child and adolescent mental health where it is most needed – in lowand middleincome countries. Although nine out of ten individuals under the age of 18 years live in these nations, only 10% of the articles published on the mental health of children and adolescents come from these regions of the world [1]. The relatively new area of child and adolescent mental health has demonstrated to be of increased interest to the scientific community, as evidenced by the rising number of journal articles over the last decade, jumping from fewer than five thousand to more than ten thousand indexed items per year in the period from 2002 to 2011 [2]. Research conducted in areas such as epidemiology, clinical presentation and interventions on mental disorders early in life is indispensable to strengthen the scientific bases of child and adolescent mental health clinical practice. In this sense, knowledge disseminated by scientific journals lays the foundations for textbooks such as the IACAPAP Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health [3]. In comparison to its more traditional journals in the field of child and adolescent mental health, CAPMH is a younger sibling that has already demonstrated a sound scientometric performance. This phenomenon can be seen in the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), a measure of scientific influence that takes into account not only the number of citations received by a journal, but also the prestige of the journals that granted such citations [4]. The most recent SJR for CAMPH was 0.788, representing a fivefold increase over the last four years. In the latest assessment, leading journals in the field such as the Journal