Celebrating 1000 issues

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The Journal of Materials Science was founded in 1966 with the first issue appearing in February. The founding editor, Robert Wolfgang Cahn, was a key proponent in developing Materials Science as a distinct field bridging engineering and the natural sciences. Robert was himself a prolific author writing not only papers that are still relevant today but also editing books and writing a regular blog for the MRS Bulletin. He encouraged authors to submit review papers as explained in his own widely downloaded review paper entitled “A review of reviews” [1]. That first issue of the Journal of Materials Science includes one review paper, two letters and a book review. Of course, that first issue appeared long before the Internet and even the Journal of Materials Science did not go electronic until 2004. The journal has also moved from being a primarily Anglo-American publication with just four issues per year to one with an international audience and 36 issues per year (Fig. 1).

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