Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.
Horm Behav. 2020 May;121:104692. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104692. Epub 2020 Feb 12.
Hormones and Behavior was founded in 1969 by Frank A. Beach and members of his laboratory. Prior to the founding there was no journal specifically devoted to hormones and behavior. This paper explores how the editorship of the journal has developed over the first 50 years, going from the initial three male editors to the current female editor-in-chief, five associate editors (four men and one women), and a 98 member editorial board consisting of 46 men and 52 women. Early concerns that a specialty journal of hormones and behavior might ghettoize the field did not come to pass and the visibility and impact of the journal has helped to expand the spread of the field, now called Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. This growth accelerated with the creation of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology in 1996 and the adoption of Hormones and Behavior as the Society's official journal. The growth has been striking with total annual citations going from 1321 per year in 1997 to the current 10,874 annual citations. The journal's impact factor (JIF), 1.42 in 1997, has increased to the current (2018) JIF of 3.95. Over the 50 years of Hormones and Behavior's existence it has emerged as a principle voice of the Hormones and Behavior community. It will be intriguing to see what the next 50 years reveals.
《激素与行为》由 Frank A. Beach 及其实验室成员于 1969 年创立。在此之前，没有专门研究激素与行为的期刊。本文探讨了该期刊在过去 50 年的编辑工作是如何发展的，从最初的三位男性编辑发展到现在的女性主编、五位副主编（四位男性和一位女性）以及由 98 名成员组成的编委会，其中包括 46 名男性和 52 名女性。早期人们担心激素与行为专业期刊可能会使该领域变得孤立，但事实并非如此，该期刊的知名度和影响力帮助扩大了该领域的影响力，该领域现在被称为行为神经内分泌学。随着 1996 年行为神经内分泌学会的成立以及《激素与行为》被该学会采纳为官方期刊，这一增长趋势加速。1997 年，期刊的年总引文数从 1321 次增长到目前的 10874 次，增长显著。该期刊的影响因子（JIF）从 1997 年的 1.42 增长到目前（2018 年）的 3.95。在《激素与行为》存在的 50 年里，它已经成为该领域的主要声音。接下来的 50 年会有什么发现，这将是一件有趣的事情。
