Facts on psychotraumatology.

Daily news is dominated by reports of traumatic events across the world. Is trauma indeed rather the norm than the exception? What are the facts? How can we better understand, prevent and treat the consequences of trauma? This past year the has again tried to address these questions. With the gold model articles in the journal are being made immediately available without any barriers to access. In Europe, promising developments with regard to emerged in 2018, for instance, with their ambitious boosting the transition to full . In this editorial these and other developments in the journal, such as as a way to reduce Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), journal metrics, and the award finalists for best paper of 2018 are being presented.