Abstract
Since its foundation, Apidologie has steadily gained recognition as a journal that reports results from high-quality scientific research on the biology of bees, and this means Apidae in general, not only on its most prominent species, the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera. All started 50 years ago in a conversation between two eminent scientists, Jean Louveaux, director of one of INRA’s bee research unit in Bures-sur-Yvette and editor of the French Annales de l’Abeille, and Friedrich Ruttner, director of the Bee Research Institute in Oberursel and editor of the German Zeitschrift für Bienenforschung, where they discussed the possibility of merging these two journals to create an international bee research journal. Here, we take Apidologie’s 50th anniversary as an opportunity to provide our readers with background information on the journal’s history, especially on the persons and their contributions along this journey.
Highlights
In the era of online and open-access publishing, scientific journals are frequently created by publishers who search for and assign editors
Hartfelder, klaus@fmrp.usp.br This article is part of the Topical Collection on the Apidologie 50 Years Manuscript editor: Yves Le Conte. Among these were the French Annales de l’ Abeille and the German Zeitschrift für Bienenforschung, which served for many years the above-mentioned demand and had a wide distribution, both among bee scientists and beekeepers
With the progressive internationalization of bee research in the 1970s and the increasing submission of manuscripts from countries other than France and Germany, especially from the USA, it became evident that an English-speaking editor was needed
Summary
In the era of online and open-access publishing, scientific journals are frequently created by publishers who search for and assign editors. Beekeepers, birdwatchers (ornithologists), and many educated citizens were interested in the newest scientific results in their special field of interest, and many of them read and paid for journals covering a broad array of subjects within these areas. Among these were the French Annales de l’ Abeille and the German Zeitschrift für Bienenforschung , which served for many years the above-mentioned demand and had a wide distribution, both among bee scientists and beekeepers. The journal closer to its current readers in the bee research community
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