Introduction to special issue : E&B: celebrating 50 years

Abstract

This Special Issue of Environment and Behavior (E&B) marks the completion of 50 years of publication for the journal; the first issue appeared in June 1969. As you will read in the overview of E&B’s publication history (“Celebrating Half a Century of Environment and Behavior: A Bibliometric Review”), the journal has grown from a publication with just two issues in its first year, to one that now publishes 10 issues per year and attracts a large number of submissions (more than 500 in 2017 and totaling 567 in 2018). The citation impact factor has also continued to rise, reaching 3.549 in 2017 (Journal Citations Report). Judged by these metrics, the journal has contributed to the literature on environment-behavior studies in a substantive way