Happy birthday: we are one year old

About a year ago we launched the Journal. During its first year we have been delighted by its growth and rate of development. At the time of writing we have published 84 articles. Of these, 42 were protocols, 17 completed systematic reviews, 9 methods papers, and 16 were other types of articles including two overviews. Twenty articles have been highly accessed meaning that within a short period of time of being published they have been frequently accessed, ranging from 2000 to 9000 times. Topics cover a wide spectrum of health issues, such as male participation in prevention programs of mother to child transmission of HIV; psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption; the use of intravascular ultrasound during bare-metal coronary stent insertion; to the effectiveness of certain antibiotics for preventing traveller's diarrhea. We have also published a number of articles about evidence synthesis methods: a systematic review of guidelines for clinical trial protocol content, sample size and power consideration in network meta-analysis, and the evolution of approaches to rapid reviews. Corresponding authors have come from many parts of the globe, including Australia, Cameron, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom.