Past Editors Research Articles

Introduction to three decades of family psychology: Perspectives toward the future.

This article introduces the 30th anniversary of the Journal of Family Psychology (JFP). In addition it marks the 125th anniversary of publications by the American Psychological Association. In recognition of this milestone the editorial team has invited the past editors of the journal to write brief reflections on the field and commenting on their vision for the future of the field. (PsycINFO Database Record

Festschrift in honour of Dr. Roger Keith

The festschrift in honour of Dr. Roger Keith, past editor of the Canadian Journal of Surgery, includes essays (available at canjsurg.ca), written from a personal perspective, on the development of specialty surgery in Canada (Richard Nason, Michael Marcaccio, Michael Kelly and Lissa Peeling), evolution of the certification examination (Ward Davies), building of a megahospital (Gerald Fried) and on the changes in surgical education (Grant Miller, Anees Chagpar, Christopher DeGara, E. Christopher Ellison, Richard Prinz and William Pollett), as well as personal reflections (Andrew Warshaw, Stewart Hamilton).

Editorial

Editorial

In Memoriam: Larisa Georgievna Zakharova

Although it is not the practice of this journal to publish obituaries of our Russian colleagues, the past and current editors would like to express their sorrow at the passing of Larisa Georgievna ...

On Contributing to the Progress of Medical Informatics as Publisher.

May 1st, 2017, will mark Dieter Bergemann's 80th birthday. As Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Schattauer Publishers from 1983 to 2016, the biomedical and health informatics community owes him a great debt of gratitude. The past and present editors of Methods of Information in Medicine, the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, and Applied Clinical Informatics want to honour and thank Dieter Bergemann by providing a brief biography that emphasizes his contributions, by reviewing his critical role as an exceptionally supportive publisher for Schattauer's three biomedical and health informatics periodicals, and by sharing some personal anecdotes. Over the past 40 years, Dieter Bergemann has been an influential, if behind-the-scenes, driving force in biomedical and health informatics publications, helping to ensure success in the dissemination of our field's research and practice.

Brett Martin and David A. Woodman, eds., The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past. (Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland.) Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. xiv, 423; 17 black-and-white figures and 6 tables. $154.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2817-2.Table of contents available online at https://www.routledge.com/products/9781472428172 (accessed 2 March 2016)

Brett Martin and David A. Woodman, eds., <i>The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past</i>. (Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland.) Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. xiv, 423; 17 black-and-white figures and 6 tables. $154.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2817-2.Table of contents available online at https://www.routledge.com/products/9781472428172 (accessed 2 March 2016)

Issue Information ‐ Issues In Progress, Editorial Board, Past Editors

Issue Information ‐ Issues In Progress, Editorial Board, Past Editors

Developing a Tradition of Scholarship

The Problem Research and theory are the lifeblood of academic disciplines along with the peer-reviewed journals that disseminate such scholarship. Journals become critical repositories that capture the histories and evolution of such disciplines, and their scholarly contributions generate new knowledge that can stimulate further research and improve practice. The Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) sponsors four peer-reviewed journals that have contributed to the birth and evolution of the discipline of human resource development (HRD). Yet, little is known about how they came into being, how they have evolved, and what their impact has been within the field of HRD. The Solution This article captures the histories of the emergence and evolution of the four refereed journals sponsored by the AHRD through the unique voices of current and recent past editors of these journals. It then considers common themes of scholarship across the four journals that have helped to shape HRD. The Stakeholders Students, researchers, and scholar-practitioners in the field of HRD and related fields who are interested in learning more about the histories of the journals sponsored by the AHRD, along with their contributions to the scholarship in HRD, will benefit from reading this article.

Silver Anniversary: 25 Editions of the IMIA Yearbook.

To provide an editorial introduction into the special 25th anniversary edition of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with discussion of the significance of the Yearbook, past and current editorial teams, and a look into the future. A brief overview of the 2016 anniversary edition of the Yearbook allows for a discussion of the significance and value of the Yearbook to the Biomedical Informatics community as well as a review of changes in Yearbook team and format over time. The IMIA Yearbook celebrates its 25th edition bearing witness to the quality of the IMIA brand, the Yearbook content, as well as to the dedication of and the inordinate amount of labor from the authors and editors of the Yearbook. Editorial teams are to be applauded for their hard work and for their foresight in steering the Yearbook from a paperback to an open access online publication. The special edition provides reviews of past editorials with the knowledge of today. The IMIA Yearbook celebrates a remarkable milestone providing a testament to the maturity of the Biomedical Informatics field. Informaticians across the world are encouraged to thank past editorial teams and celebrate with IMIA.

Publication Cycles and the Impact of Academic Research on Current Events

As we begin a new academic year, I would like to thank the dedicated services of past associate editors Carolyn Kitch and Wilson Lowrey and past book review editor Ron Rodgers. I would also like to introduce several new faces in our editorial team. First are our new associate editors, Randal Beam of University of Washington and Lana Rakow of the University of North Dakota. Next is our new book review editor, Daniel C. Hallin of University of California, San Diego. With his immense international research experience and expertise in book authorship, our journal will have more reviews of foreignlanguage books of our scholarly interest in the field. My competent editorial assistant, Dhiman Chattopadhyay, has also completed his 2-year term for the journal in August. Our new editorial assistant is a first-year PhD student Alyssa Fisher. Together, we will continue to provide our readers with the best research articles in the field.The passing away of Guido Stempel III, Professor Emeritus of Ohio University and the former editor of our journal from 1973 to 1990, on May 31, 2016, is a very sad news to me personally and the journal. He is one of my unofficial mentors. He was my very first article discussant as a doctoral student at a conference in Ohio University. I was one of the early contributors to his Web Journal of Mass Communication Research. After I accepted the editorship of the Quarterly, he shared his precious experience with me on editing the journal and the art of balancing reviewers' input with independent editorial judgment. He always accepted my review request whenever I needed him to review in a rush or fill in for reviewers that declined the invitation. Even in April when I was working on collecting archive journal issues to complete digitizing all issues of the journal, he still graciously helped me find information. Although he is no longer with us, his love for and contribution to the Quarterly will be remembered.All eyes are now focused on the U.S. presidential elections; people across the world are debating how the new U.S. President will affect them. I do not need to reiterate the roles that media are playing in politics and how the candidates utilize media to achieve their campaign goals. For this type of current event, how can academic research contribute to the understanding and advancement of knowledge? With its 93 years of history, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) has a rich collection of research articles addressing how news media affect voting behavior in the United States and other countries. We took advantage of the online medium by compiling a virtual theme collection on media and voting. Editor Tom Johnson's introductory review essay of the collection titled, Media and Voting: Building Upon the Foundations of Journalism, explains how previous JMCQ authors examined traditional and non-traditional news media's influence on the voting behavior and their theoretical models from the 1960s to present times. These articles have long-lasting impact on our understanding of the topic of media and voting. I hope our readers who are either teaching or researching this topic will find this collection handy and useful.In addition to the virtual theme collection, we also have several upcoming articles on contemporary political communication research. Online publishing has increased the timeliness and short-term effects of research scholarship. Thanks to the efficient production team of SAGE, several articles have already been published online first such as Jason Turcotte's Who's Citing Whom? Source Selection and Elite Indexing in Electoral Debates, Lindsey Meeks's Aligning and Trespassing: Candidates' Party-Based Issue and Trait Ownership on Twitter, Sung Woo Yoo's Cognitive Benefits for Senders: Antecedents and Effects of Political Expression on Social Media, and Jay Hmielowski, Myiah Hutchens, Bruce Pinkleton, and Michael Beam's A Spiral of Skepticism? The Relationship Between Citizens' Involvement With Campaign Information to Their Skepticism and Political Knowledge. …

Reflections

Reflections

Contemplations on an unfolding future

The last comprehensive redesign of the green journal was 10 years ago, a relatively long time in publishing terms. Medical journals, like popular publications, want to keep fresh. This means delivering high-quality content on a weekly basis—and past editorials have addressed publishing standards—but also keeping in mind the look of the journal, its readability, its online functionality, and how to keep it fresh and updated.

Literacy for All

Literacy for All

APPLICATIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL NEOICHNOLOGY TO PALEOBIOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PROBLEMS

It is semi-traditional at PALAIOS for the outgoing editor to provide a Spotlight article as their tenure as editor ends. Past editors have pontificated on the state of the journal, its ranking, and its path to the future (e.g., Hasiotis and Taylor 2010; Hasiotis and Zonneveld 2012; Hasiotis 2013). In truth, I have a very positive outlook for the journal. PALAIOS is strong and healthy and I leave it in the capable hands of co-editors Gabriella Mangano and Thomas Olszewski and managing editor Kathleen Huber; three amazing human beings, each of whom possesses a wiser head than my own. PALAIOS has a very optimistic future with editors like these at the helm! To quote present and former Prime Ministers of Canada, “Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways” (Laurier 1895; Trudeau 2015). Before I segue to my main topic, however, I wish to digress on some acknowledgements that are indeed in order. First and foremost I'd like to thank my co-editors Stephan Hasiotis and Thomas Olszewski. I learned much from both of you and it was indeed an honor to serve our society in the capacity of editor. I will always be grateful to Jill Hardesty, PALAIOS managing editor for my first few years as editor. Jill passed away last year but left a permanent imprint on the journal that we both love. Jill was succeeded by Kathleen Huber, our present managing editor, who quietly and capably piloted PALAIOS through a very difficult interval. Thank you Kathleen! I am also forever grateful to Melissa Lester and the Journal of Sedimentary Research who loaned us Melissa to help get PALAIOS through the difficult interval after Jill had to step down. The PALAIOS readership is also well served by a large group of generally unsung heroes, our associate editors. Without …

Rising expectations

In 1953 Arthur Keppel-Jones, the pioneer of the South African alternate, predictive and apocalyptic history genre, published a work entitled When Smuts goes: A history of South Africa from 1952-2010, first published in 2015. In his Introduction, Keppel-Jones makes three telling points: South Africans resist asking hard and difficult questions; South Africans show irresponsible optimism in the future by choosing oft-tried but ill-tested views as future solutions; and that 'the salvation of the country can lie only in a reversal of historic[al] tendencies, a reversal so thorough as to constitute a revolution' (p. xi-xii). The four books reviewed here - all of which were published in 2015 - are important contributions to current public debates. All of the authors are well-known professional media figures. Ferial Haffajee is the editor of City Press, Songezo Zibi is the immediately past editor of Business Day and Justice Malala and Eusebius McKaiser are noted public analysts. Two of the books - those by Haffajee and McKaiser - concern identity politics and race. The books by Malala and Zibi focus on politics, leadership and public policy. The books differ in approach and analysis, yet raise common themes.

Stirring the Melting Pot

Stirring the Melting Pot

Orthodontic Postgraduate Education: A Global Perspective (2016)

Orthodontic Postgraduate Education: A Global Perspective (2016) Editors: Theodore Eliades, Athanasios E. Athanasiou Publisher: Thieme Publishers Stuttgart Price: £59.00 ISBN: 978-3-13-200401-6 Pages: 228 The book entitled ‘Orthodontic Postgraduate Education: A Glo bal Perspective’ edited by Theodore Eliades and Athanasios E. Athanasiou has 228 pages is divided into 20 chapters that discuss orthodontic postgraduate training and education worldwide. The contributors consist of faculty deans, professors, and experienced academic educators. Additionally, a faculty advisor, a past editor of an orthodontic journal, and a library services manager share their views on …

What Will the HRDQ Future Be: When One Turns Into Three?

With this second issue of 2016, we are honored and privileged to be given the opportunity to work together as the incoming Co-Editors of Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ). In our roles as Associate Editors from 2013 to 2015, we were able to learn much from the inspirational editorship of our predecessor, Andrea D. Ellinger. Andrea, along with outgoing Managing Editor Mary Lynn Lunn, have left the journal in very good shape. We are conscious that we “stand on the shoulders of giants,” as other past Editors of this journal include Richard A. Swanson, Gary N. McLean, Ronald L. Jacobs, Darlene F. Russ-Eft, Timothy G. Hatcher, and Baiyin Yang. We have a lot to live up to but are delighted that during our term as Co-Editors, we will be supported by a strong team of outstanding individuals who combine youth and experience and have offered their talents to the service of the journal. We are grateful to Claire Gubbins and Maura Sheehan, who have agreed to serve second terms as Associate Editors, and they will be joined by Travor C. Brown, Thomas G. Reio, and Seung Won Yoon, as well as Heather Short, our new Managing Editor, and Emily Elsner Twesme, our Editorial Assistant (Social Media). We are thrilled to work together with our new editorial team!

Introduction

Introduction Hilda Kurtz and Deepak Mishra Dear Readers, We are delighted to introduce the latest issue of Southeastern Geographer, which also marks the beginning of our tenure as editors. This issue contains a very thoughtful special forum on the Charleston massacre of June 2015. Five short essays by seven geographers reflect on the implications of the murder of nine African Americans attending bible study in church by a self-proclaimed white supremacist. Different lenses on the tragedy dovetail in compelling ways. We hope that the forum encourages reflection and perhaps debate about how to understand and respond to ongoing racial violence. The special forum is followed by five articles showcasing the diverse nature of our discipline from human to physical geography. Tyner’s article analyzes the speeches of Malcolm X to draw out new understandings of the Black freedom fighter’s legacy. Specifically, Tyner urges readers to rethink Malcolm as at once “a critical theorist of geography and a radical political philosopher.” He focuses on Malcolm’s attention to geographies of the South in the latter’s geopolitical philosophy. Malcolm’s geographical critiques de-emphasized Southern exceptionalism, Tyner shows, and argued that “racial oppression and exploitation were constitutive of U.S. society as a whole.” Markley and Sharma examine the politics surrounding a residential building demolition in suburban Roswell, Georgia as a case of revanchist (sub)urbanism in which working class, nonwhite residents are displaced in the name of revitalizing suburban space. This intriguing case study considers such changes in the suburban landscape in tension with ideas of (sub)urban entrepreneurialism and New Urbanism. Hardy, Hepinstall-Cymerman, and Fowler partnered with two local land trusts to develop a priority map for conservation easement recruitment in the Upper Oconee watershed in northeastern Georgia. In the U.S., more than half of threatened and endangered species and their habitats are estimated to be located on private land, yet few land trusts have the staff and technical skills necessary to conduct conservation assessments of their jurisdictions. Their study provides a framework for partnerships between academic researchers and land trusts working on increasing the effectiveness of private land conservation. Kennedy investigated the possible impact of breached historic mill ponds in the southern Blue Ridge region in terms of their potential to act as sediment sources, elevating regional sediment yield values. Her study demonstrated that small mill ponds were potentially scattered throughout the southern Blue Ridge, impounding low-order streams (2nd and 3rd), and that the abandonment and breaching of these dams resulted in the remobilization of sand-, silt-, and clay-sized particulates. [End Page 3] Brown, Ellis, and Bleakney assessed tornado frequency characteristics and vulnerability within 100 km of three major cities in Tennessee—Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville. In the past ten years, Tennessee has recorded the highest number of tornado-related fatalities of all states. They found that three cities experienced an annual peak in tornadoes during the spring months; however, tornadoes in Memphis were spread out across more tornado days than in Nashville and Knoxville. Memphis also recorded the greatest number of fatalities among the three cities. Their study help provide insight on how tornado characteristics and associated vulnerability are changing on a regional scale. In short, the articles in this issue demonstrate the rich breadth of inquiry that makes contemporary academic geography so invigorating. We welcome your feedback. Best regards, Hilda Kurtz and Deepak Mishra MEET THE TEAM Greetings Members of SEDAAG, As in the incoming editors of Southeastern Geographer, we would like to introduce ourselves and our vision for the journal, and invite you to contribute in many ways and sundry to SEDAAG’s flagship regional journal. It is a privilege and an honor to continue in the footsteps of past editors Jim Wheeler, Derek Alderman, Scott Lecce, Graham Tobin, Robert Brinkmann, David Cochran, and Andy Reese. Their hard work and savvy innovations, including the move to quarterly publication, the linkage with UNC Press, the inclusion in Project Muse, and the publication of timely and well-received special issues, have positioned the journal as the most cited regional geography journal out there. We wish to thank the SEDAAG leadership for entrusting us to manage Southeastern Geographer for the...

Editors' Note

Editors' Note Karen Bourrier, Kristen Guest, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Daniel Martin, Lisa Surridge, and Vanessa Warne We are delighted to share with our readers this special issue of Victorian Review, which focuses on the works of the Brontë family and is guest edited by Lauren N. Hoffer (University of South Carolina Beaufort) and Elizabeth Meadows (Vanderbilt University). To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë's birth, this issue invites into conversation established and emergent Brontë scholars and presents both traditional and innovative methods for studying the Brontës' oeuvre. This issue marks the end of the joint editorship of Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge, who, in 2006–07, took over the editorial role previously occupied so ably by Susan Hamilton. Under their direction, the journal has reached a vastly wider readership through JSTOR, EBSCO, and Project Muse; it has achieved financial stability; and it has moved in-house with the prestigious Johns Hopkins University Press. Having realized these editorial goals, the team is thrilled to hand over the journal to the expert editorial direction of Christopher Keep, who brings his vast intelligence and critical acuity to the task of taking the journal to a further level of achievement. At this moment of transition, we recognize and celebrate the many past editors and associate editors who have guided Victorian Review, from its beginnings as a regional newsletter to its current form as an international peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of a university press: Isobel M. Findlay, Christopher Gordon-Craig, Susan Hamilton, Chris Hosgood, Leslie Howsam, Joel H. Kaplan, Adrienne Kertzer, Glennis Stephenson, Sheila Stowell, Douglas Thorpe, C.S. Wiesenthal, and George Wing. Finally, Lisa and Mary Elizabeth want to thank past and present members of the editorial team, with whom it has been an enormous pleasure to work over the years: Karen Bourrier, Alison Chapman, Constance Crompton, Susan Doyle, Rebecca Gagan, Kristen Guest, Ruth Knechtel, Daniel Martin, Judith Mitchell, and Vanessa Warne. They also want to thank the University of Victoria students who cut their copy-editing teeth on the journal and have gone on to enjoy many professional successes, of which the team is deeply proud. Mary Elizabeth and Lisa extend special thanks to current and former students Michael Carelse, Amy Coté, Jenny Duggan, and Kelsey Kilbey. [End Page v] Copyright © 2016 Victorian Studies of Western Canada