Recognizing Excellence in Knowledge Dissemination: The Nursing Journal Hall of Fame

Nursing knowledge and innovations are disseminated primarily through peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals. At the present time, there are approximately 250 journals in the profession of nursing, representing all specialties and an international, global focus. Of this group, 25 have been honored by induction into the Nursing Journal Hall of Fame, which was established by the International Academy of Nursing Editors in 2018. This article introduces the Hall of Fame and the journals that have been inducted to date. Hall of Fame journals have a sustained publication history of 50 years or more and represent excellence in nursing through the articles published and journal editorial leadership. Studying the history of this group of journals reveals trends within different specialties as well as the profession of nursing overall. For many of the journals, there were particular editors who were visionary and transformative. Knowing their stories is important for the historical record of nursing publication. Celebrating nursing journal history through the Hall of Fame and understanding the unique leadership role of nursing editors, past and present, is an important and fitting tribute to nursing knowledge during the Year of the Nurse and Nurse Midwife in 2020.

ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF KHIZRI AMIRKHANOVICH AMIRKHANOV

In December 2019 is the 70th anniversary of doctor of historical Sciences, Professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the Department of stone age archaeology Institute of archaeology Russian Academy of Sciences, scientific head of the Institute of history, archaeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Federal research center Russian Academy of Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal "History, archaeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus" Khizri Amirkhanovich Amirkhanov.

Milestones of a Century-Long Journey of the Russian Professional Statistical Journal

This article briefly outlines milestones for the Russian information and science journal «Voprosy statistiki» amid its 100th anniversary. The paper addresses the story behind the establishment of a national professional periodical journal and presents objective and goals set before at its creation in January 1919. A point of emphasis is that applied mathematics is vital for shaping statistics as a tool, in contemporary terms, of modelling socio-economic processes. There is a need for aiming statistics at obtaining specific practical effects in executive decision-making. There is an attempt to set a historical timeline of the evolution of editorial policy and provide a brief content-related description of publishing activities, advanced topics in statistics at some stages of development of the country, place of statistics in society, its relationship with the state. The author mentions issues of the journal dating to various periods of the journal history: pre-war and post-war, the Thaw, perestroika, post-perestroika and modern period. The paper references relevant articles authored by Russian and various foreign statisticians, researchers, professors, practitioners in statistics. The author identifies the role of journal founder in developing common content-related strategy, improvement of editorial policy. The article describes the evolution of the editorial policy in the last 25 years, modern day issues and challenges facing the journal editors and possible solutions for them.

Resisting neurosciences and sustaining history

The article began life as, and retains the character of, spoken argument for not allowing the neurosciences to shape the agenda of the history of the human sciences. This argument is then used to suggest purposes and content for the journal, History of the Human Sciences. The style is rhetorical, even polemical, but open-ended. I challenge two clichés about the neurosciences, that they intellectually challenge other areas of knowledge, and that they are reconfiguring the human with the notion of ‘brainhood’. The suggestion is that the real challenges lie elsewhere; specifically with understanding the relations of different forms of knowledge and making it conceivable by political action, or simply mode of life, to implement one way of being human rather than another. The conclusion re-asserts the value of the heading, ‘history of the human sciences’, and of the value of the journal with this name, as a forum in which to reflect on the identity and relations of forms of knowledge about ‘the human’ in all their variety.

International databases and instructions for use

This document has been designed as an agile memorandum aimed to support the journals in field of humanities – whether the journals of longer tradition, or those that were born in the latest years – which intend to undergo the evaluation process for inclusion in the most important international databases such as Web of Science and Scopus.The memorandum has been prepared by ideally retracing all the steps and phases that the journal "History of Education & Children’s Literature" (HECL) has gone through since it was born in 2006 – some of which it is still going through. All the information, then, have been checked on the databases’ websites, and updated with the latest developments.

PLOTKIN SEMEN YAKOVLEVICH (TO THE 110TH ANNIVERSARY)

The article tells about life and fate of S.Ya. Plotkin, whose 110-th anniversary of birth was marked on March 2016. He was born in 1906 in Melitopole town (Ukraine). Having graduated at the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology in 1931, he was asked for administration works firstly as the director of the Institute and then as the member of the All-Union Committee for High School problems. During all his life S.Ya. Plotkin successfully combine administrative, scientific, pedagogical and journalistic activities. He was the expert in the problems of hard alloys and powder metallurgy, professor, editor in chief of the journal «History of Natural Sciences and Technique». He was the member of the Journalist’s Union of the USSR, Honorary member of the International Institute for the Sciences of Sintering and Honorary worker of Culture of Russian Federation.