The editorial board members of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) met in a webinar along with the proprietor of Academy Publisher and discussed the inclusion of the journal in ResearchGate (RG) and assignment of RG Journal Impact (0.34) that is comparable to the Asian Journal of Psychiatry (0.64), the Indian Journal of Psychiatry (0.50), and the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (0.47). OJPAS® is under evaluation by Clarivate Analytics for inclusion in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Web of Science. Dr. Shijo John Joseph has joined as section editor for manuscripts related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). New section on continuing medical education (CME) has started and first article has already been published (A brief summary of human molecular genetic techniques for clinical psychiatrists). Next in the section will be on ‘Statistics for clinical research: basic to advance’. Peer-review platform is not working as needed and decided upon to develop one. All the editors need to understand the conflict of interest for editors. For advance online publication, digital object identifier (DOI) will be applied directly to Crossref. Instructions for authors and guidelines for reviewers are deliberated.