Adolescents—A New Open Access Journal

It is our pleasure to introduce the new open access journal: Adolescents (ISSN 2673-7051). In Adolescents, we welcome papers that bring new insights to longstanding mainstream issues and controversies related to adolescent health and wellbeing; including, but not limited to, adolescent development; health and behavior in adolescents; health promotion and disease prevention; and contemporary topics in adolescent psychology, gynecology, oncology, school health and wellbeing, bullying, cyberbullying, and teen dating violence.

Adolescents are individuals in a period of their life course characterized as the transition between childhood and early adulthood. Adolescence is also one of the most rapid phases of human development, with cognitive developmental processes enabling and advancing deductive and inductive thought and moral reasoning. Psychosocial development during this developmental period is observed in the formation of new relationships and, optimally, the acquisition of attributes and abilities that will be important for enjoying their adolescent years and assuming adult roles.

Taken together, their rapid physical, cognitive, and psychosocial growth affects how adolescents feel, think, make decisions, and interact with the world around them. During this phase, adolescents establish patterns of behavior—for instance, related to diet, physical activity, substance use, and sexual activity—that can protect their health and the health of others around them, or put their health at risk now and later in the course of their life. The ultimate goal for publications in this journal is to help adolescents better develop knowledge and skills, learn to manage emotions and relationships, and acquire attributes and abilities that will be important for enjoying their adolescent years and assuming adult roles.

Although open access is usually supported by the payment of article processing charges (APCs) from the authors’ research budgets, in order to attract high-quality research articles, Adolescents will not charge any publishing fees for manuscripts submitted by 31 December 2021 and accepted for publication following the standard peer review process.

We hope to work together with you—the authors, scientists, and scholars—to make Adolescents a high-quality source of information and ideas about recent advances in adolescent health and well-being. We consider it a privilege to work with you in making this vision a reality, and we look forward to receiving your contributions in the near future.