Editorial

Abstract

Recently the editors of the JCPP were challenged that there must be a policy within the Journal creating a bias against a particular topic which, it was claimed, was under-represented in the Journal. Our response to this was that there is indeed no editorial policy on specific topics to be included or excluded from the Journal. It is only the scientific merit of the individual papers that determines what gets accepted and what is rejected. The topics of the papers that appear in the Journal are primarily a reflection of the range of papers that are submitted. The editors of the Journal act autonomously in deciding, in the light of referees' comments, whether to accept a paper or not. In a similar manner, the Associate Editors and Corresponding Editors have independence in making decisions about papers to appear in the Annual Research Reviews and in the Practitioner Reviews and Annotations.

One consequence of this autonomy is that, as an editor, it is only when an issue is collated that material processed by the other editors comes to your attention. This usually creates a number of pleasant surprises and this issue is no exception. It was not until I received the collection of papers to appear in this issue that I was aware of the Annotation provided by Weiss. These editorials are intended to draw to the reader's attention aspects of the papers appearing in each issue that are of particular salience to clinicians. This annotation by Weiss should be required reading for all clinicians.