Andreea Enache
Beatrice Popescu
EJOP Founding Editors
There is a passage in one of Coelho’s books which says: “That which happens once, will happen again for sure…”. We do hope that this would also be true for EJOP.
We have already made one year of constant publishing to happen and we wish this to be only the beginning of a long success story.
Looking back on our activity, we can find plenty of reasons to rejoice, but also many occasions to envisage ways to embetter what at first looked like an almost impossible project.
2005 was a prolific year for our small team of editors from Bucharest. In February we launched Europe’s Journal of Psychology in the city of contrasts, formerly known in the interwar period as “The Little Paris”.
Soon after, in May 2005, EJOP was gathering a joyful and enthusiastic team of associate editors from top universities from all over Europe, the United States and Australia. They seemed to like the association with a young journal, opened to new trends in psychology and to scientific challenges.
Submissions from international contributors have constantly increased as well as the quality of all materials received.
Our readership has grown substantially ever since our first issue, and this we think to be the effect of both the scientific quality of the articles and the open-source strategy of EJOP. We are indeed proud to be one of the very few providers of free psychology information. Started as a pro bono project, EJOP is seriously intended by its editors to remain this way.
The autumn of 2005 has also brought EJOP a solid partnership with EFPSA (European Federation of Students’ Associations) and, along with it, a stronger commitment to students (graduate and post graduate) that EJOP will offer them a credible and hopefully very soon prestigious publishing platform.
Impressed by the allure of the journal, they expressed their wish to become EJOP’s partners in most of their editorial and scientific projects. They also delegated two of their members as permanent collaborators of EJOP. We welcomed their enthusiasm and positive energy and offered them a platform for promoting top quality research.
www.ejop.org is one of the newest websites in the virtual space devoted to psychology and European issues, targeted to both psychology students and professionals. From its modest origins in February 2005, EJOP has evolved into a popular journal that attracts hundreds of visitors daily. If we are to be so hopeful as always, not very late this year the idea of opening an alternative blog to EJOP will become reality.
Initially torn between anxieties and suspicions about what would be desirable to publish and what would not, we decided for a classic formula: always bring to a round table all difficulties that may arise and never leave the room before all differences are solved.
Editorial choices are growing more and more difficult with the general increase in submissions and the greater expectations of our readers and collaborators. However, there is a trend that we wish to pursue as much as possible: broaden the room for best-quality research and encourage exquisite syntheses of it.
Hopefully, the years to come will bring EJOP’s readers and editors a lot of interesting projects in the area of psychology and many other positive challenges in connected fields. As life itself is a magic and marvelous project to be accomplished, we are opened to any surprises the future will bring us.
February 2006