TheJournal of HerpetologyAfter 50 Years Plus: A Brief History (1958–2016)¹

Abstract

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A Common Love of Science: The One-Hundredth Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

“…Conferences also allow attendees the oppor-tunity to conduct Society business through board and committee meetings. In 2021, the ASIH held its 100 th inperson meeting, the third and final centennial to be celebrated by this Society (2013 was the 100 th year of the Society's journal, Copeia, now Ichthyology & Herpetology, Smith and Mitchell, 2013;2016 was the 100 th year of the ASIH's founding, Hilton and Crump, 2016). This paper celebrates this milestone of the ASIH, and reflects upon the history of the ASIH conferences.…”

“…The HL was founded in 1946 and is the oldest international society for herpetology and, like the ASIH, is unusual in that its flagship journal, Herpetologica, predates the formation of the Society itself (Smith, 1986). The SSAR was founded in 1958 as the Ohio Herpetological Society, but it grew rapidly and is now the largest international society for herpetology (Moriarty and Bartholomew, 2007;Adler, 2016). The AES was founded in 1985 as the primary professional organization dedicated to the study of elasmobranch fishes.…”

Beginning the Second Half of the Journal's Century: Perspectives and other Special Papers

“…That 50 th volume marked the beginning of a change in different color formatting, and the cover of each issue included unique and historically relevant images. In addition, the March issue featured a thorough history of the events and people who created and continued to shape JH (Adler, 2016). The September issue included a special essay on herpetological ethics (Perry, 2016), a topic that has become important in a number of journals (not just herpetology), and the December issue included a special, invited essay looking at possible future aspects of communicating and publishing in herpetological journals (Seigel, 2016).…”