I humbly accept the honor of being appointed the new Editor‐in‐Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. I thank the owners, the Nordic Psychology Associations and Wiley, for placing their trust in me. The journal has seen a pleasant increase in impact and readership over the last few years and I hope to aid in maintaining and improving this development—building on the success of my predecessors. The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology remains an important outlet for Nordic psychological research.

I have not yet had the pleasure to meet with the editorial board in person. However, we have had some discussions about how we will organize the ever‐increasing workload of managing a scientific journal. One of the interesting side effects of COVID‐19 (apart from the surge of papers about the consequences of the pandemic) is the increasing number of papers being submitted to journals: This obviously results in more rejections, and an increased workload for Section Editors. I hope that with our recent changes to how we manage the submissions we will get back to a more efficient workflow. I would like to thank the veteran Section Editors for their hard and valuable work in recent years, and I also wish to welcome our recently appointed Section Editors, who will add their knowledge and insights to the running and development of the journal and the field.

As all new editors probably do, I will also make some small changes. The journal has flourished with its four sections: Cognition & Neuroscience, Development & Aging, Personality & Social Psychology and Health & Disability. However, I believe the latter section will do even better, and become more contemporary, with a small tweak. We will therefore change this section name to Health & Work Psychology. Most psychological disability is evident in or out of a work context, and we believe this will also be of interest to psychological practitioners in the field. I also believe this more applied approach will benefit our readers. I would also like to add an extra section to make the journal even more relevant to the members of the Nordic psychology associations: Clinical Psychology & Mental Disorder. We wish to receive and publish—and with this new section: highlight high‐quality clinical psychological science that is useful and translatable to clinical psychologists in the Nordic countries and beyond. We already receive and publish papers that would fit under this heading; however, we wish to highlight this research better. These changes also reflect the growth of first‐rate psychological research within the Nordic countries over the last decades.

There are few things that are harder to predict than the future. However, in this case the future is already upon us: I expect that this journal will become influenced by the open science movement in years to come, as all mainstream science outlets ought to be. We have already started this process with a few, small changes, to increase transparency. But we hope to see further changes to accommodate this development. I look forward to making these changes, gradually, in collaboration with the Editorial Board and our owners.

我虚心接受被任命为斯堪的纳维亚心理学杂志新主编的荣誉。我感谢业主、北欧心理学协会和 Wiley，感谢他们对我的信任。该杂志已经看到影响和读者在过去的几年里愉快的增加，我希望能有助于维持和改善这方面的发展-建立在我的前辈的成功。《斯堪的纳维亚心理学杂志》仍然是北欧心理学研究的重要渠道。

我还没有高兴地亲自会见编辑委员会。然而，我们已经就如何组织管理科学期刊不断增加的工作量进行了一些讨论。COVID-19 的一个有趣的副作用（除了关于大流行后果的论文激增）是越来越多的论文被提交给期刊：这显然导致更多的拒绝，并增加了部门编辑的工作量。我希望随着我们最近对提交管理方式的改变，我们将恢复到更高效的工作流程。我要感谢资深版块编辑们近年来的辛勤工作和宝贵的工作，同时也欢迎我们新近任命的版块编辑器，

正如所有新编辑可能会做的那样，我也会做一些小的改动。该杂志的四个部分蓬勃发展：认知与神经科学、发展与衰老、人格与社会心理学以及健康与残疾。但是，我相信后一部分会做得更好，并且会变得更加现代，只需稍作调整。因此，我们将此部分名称更改为健康与工作心理学. 大多数心理残疾在工作环境中或工作环境外都是显而易见的，我们相信该领域的心理从业者也会对此感兴趣。我也相信这种更实用的方法将使我们的读者受益。我还想添加一个额外的部分，使该期刊与北欧心理学协会的成员更加相关：临床心理学与精神障碍. 我们希望通过这个新部分接收和发布：突出对北欧国家及其他地区的临床心理学家有用并可翻译的高质量临床心理学科学。我们已经收到并发表了适合这个标题的论文；然而，我们希望更好地强调这项研究。这些变化也反映了过去几十年北欧国家一流心理学研究的增长。

很少有事情比未来更难预测。然而，在这种情况下，未来已经来临：我预计该期刊将在未来几年受到开放科学运动的影响，所有主流科学媒体都应该如此。我们已经通过一些小的改动开始了这个过程，以提高透明度。但我们希望看到进一步的变化以适应这种发展。我期待与编辑委员会和我们的所有者合作，逐步进行这些更改。