Addiction and addiction journals.
This is the last issue of the Drug and Alcohol Review to be published under my hand as Editor in Chief, and I have chosen to paint a broader canvas and examine how the field of addiction and addiction journals has developed over this period.
Abstract
This is the last issue of the Drug and Alcohol Review to be published under my hand as Editor in Chief, a position to which I was appointed in 1983 and which I shall demit as from January 2009 after 25 years in the post. The Editorial Board has kindly invited me to write this Editorial to reflect on the development of the Drug and Alcohol Review over this period. I appreciated the invitation but did not automatically accept it, as I have long queried the value of publishing reflective pieces in a scientific journal. My view is that a scientific journal is properly the means of appraising and disseminating new knowledge, and publishing systematic and considered reviews of that knowledge, rather than the musings of a particular individual. I have therefore chosen to paint a broader canvas and examine how the field of addiction and addiction journals has developed over this period.