Editors' Best of 2025

In its third year, JAACAP Open is now indexed in PubMed Central (PMC) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), accepted into the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and will have an impact factor beginning in June 2026. We are proud to support the dissemination of some of the highest-quality research being conducted in our field. Choosing the "best" among already high-quality submissions is always a tall order and most certainly misses the many ways in which articles make an impact: is the "best" the most interesting, the most surprising, the most educational, the most impactful, the most provocative, or the most enjoyable? How do we decide? Our team selected some articles that have the potential for high impact based on their methodological novelty, attunement to the complexity of development in the context of a variety of different sociocultural settings, focus on understudied populations, and ability to inform clinical practice today. With a special issue featuring scholarly work focused on suicide, it should be no surprise that some of our picks came from that issue. It is our pleasure to give a special "hats off" to the 2025 articles that we think deserve your attention, or at least a second read!