The Evolution ofJCR: A View through the Eyes of Its Editors: TABLE 1
JCR’s 40th anniversary creates an opportunity to take a historical look at its evolution, in order to better appreciate both its historical trajectory and the challenges it will need to reckon with in the future. To this end, Shane Wang, Neil Bendle, Feng Mai, and June Cotte have undertaken an analysis of the journal’s trends in topics, of impactful papers, and of top contributing scholars. Justine Rapp and Ron Hill provide a complementary overview of trends in topics, methods, and samples featured in JCR’s pages. Both appear in this issue. Further, we have curated a special virtual issue of JCR that contains some of the most impactful papers published in JCR (based on an analysis of Web of Science citations conducted in January 2015), one for each year it has been published. It will appear on JCR’s Oxford University website. To complement this quantified look at trends and articles over time, we elicited input from former editors of the journal. A few, of course, are deceased, and some were not available for comment. However, 12 of the 17 individuals who once edited or co-edited JCR were able and willing to provide input. Table 1 provides the names of all past JCR editors and the years they served.
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