Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) Advances is rapidly establishing itself as an international, high quality, high impact open access journal in the field of child psychology and psychiatry and related disciplines. We are making excellent progress towards our high ambitions, and what a first year we have had! It is time to celebrate. Since the launch of the first issue in April 2021 we have published over 70 articles including a mix of editorials, editorial perspectives, original articles, reviews and commentaries, with topics ranging from -the impact of school closures during Covid-19, longitudinal studies on psychiatric referrals, to large population-based cohort studies.Importantly, the published articles come from 13 countries, from several continents (Europe, North America, Australasia and Asia), helping our journal in the path of becoming truly international. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our authors, editors, reviewers, readers and the international research community who have supported us during this first year. I am really looking forward to continuing to work together during the coming years! Our ambition to achieve our first Impact Factor remains an important goal, whilst embracing principles to encourage good authorship and highlight the individual contributions of a diverse range of researchers. We are committed to helping authors getThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.