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According to Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, there are 1,498 academic peer reviewed journals still being published which were active in or before 1921. This compares to a total number of 79,218 academic peer reviewed journals. So only 1.89% of all journals are 100 years old or more. From the 100+ year old journals, 92 are (now) Open Access.

During the past 100 years of Poultry Science, the journal has published 844 issues, 28,165 articles and 186,735 pages.

Poultry Science® Prehistory:

• Before Poultry Science was the journal we now celebrate, it was published under the name American Association of Instructors and Investigators in Poultry Husbandry, an unwieldy title held from its very first slim issue in 1908 through the end of 1920.
• The original Editor-in-Chief of this pre-Poultry Science journal was one C. A. Rogers.
  • Poultry Science’s first EiC, Harry R. Lewis, also edited this earlier version throughout the late 1910s.
• Since 1921, Poultry Science has had 16 Editors-in-Chief and 4 publishers:
  • The American Association of Instructors and Investigators in Poultry Husbandry (1921-1927)*
  • The Poultry Science Association (1927-2014)
  • Oxford University Press (2014-2019)
  • Elsevier (2019-present)

International Submissions:

• Throughout the 1920s, all Poultry Science submissions came from within the US.
• In 2020, Poultry Science received submissions from 65 different countries, including China, the US, Canada, Brazil, and Poland.

Journal Sections:

• Labelled sections were added to the journal beginning with the January 1978 issue.
• The original 6 sections were:
  • Breeding and Genetics
  • Education and Production
  • Environment and Health
  • Marketing and Products
  • Metabolism and Nutrition
  • Physiology and Reproduction

Published Firsts

• The first Editorial appeared in Poultry Science in 1923
  • Editorial, Poultry Science, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1923, Pages 20-21, ISSN 0032-5791, https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0030020. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119567797)
    
• The  first paper on the Standardization of Poultry Experiments to appear in Poultry Science was in 1923
  • H.C. KNANDEL, The Standardization of Poultry Experiments, Poultry Science, Volume 2, Issue 6, 1923, Pages 173-180, ISSN 0032-5791, https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0020173. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119567712)
    
• The first paper on the use of vaccines to appear in Poultry Science was in 1924
  • L.D. BUSHNELL, J.W. PATTON, The Use of Vaccines in Poultry Diseases, Poultry Science, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1924, Pages 64-73, ISSN 0032-5791, https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0040064
    (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119568249)
    
• The first paper on an instructor’s job to appear in Poultry Science was in 1924
  • J.C. GRAHAM, The Instructor’s Job, Poultry Science, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1924, Pages 89-93, ISSN 0032-5791, https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0030089. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003257911956792X)
    
• The first Meat Science paper to appear in Poultry Science was in 1926
  • CAREY W. CARRICK, SIGFRED M. HAUGE, The Effect of Cod Liver Oil Upon Flavor in Poultry Meat, Poultry Science, Volume 5, Issue 5, 1926, Pages 213-215, ISSN 0032-5791, https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0050213. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119568869)

Schedule:

• Poultry Science was published bimonthly until the 1980s; the journal switched to a more frequent monthly schedule beginning with the January 1980 issue.

The Journal of Applied Poultry Research:

• PSA’s second journal, The Journal of Applied Poultry Research, was founded in 1992 by Applied Poultry Science, Inc., a non-profit based in Athens, Georgia. It did not become a proper companion to Poultry Science under PSA ownership until the Winter 2000/Spring 2001 issues.

Open Access:

• Poultry Science® became an Open Access journal in January 2020.

Other Centennial Stats in Dr. Taylor’s editorial:

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579121001073

A Condensed History of Academic Publishing:

• 1660s:
  • The Royal Society of London, the world’s oldest national scientific institution, is founded.
  • The earliest academic journals, Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, are first published.

• 1730s:
  • Medical Essays and Observations, the first fully peer-reviewed journal, is launched by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

• 1740s:
  • The American Philosophical Society, the first scholarly society in what is now the US, is created.

• 1840s:
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is founded.

• 1940s:
  • Elsevier, the longtime publishing giant, launches its first international journal, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta.

• 1950s-1970s:
  • The modern practice of formal peer-review gradually becomes a universal standard across academic publishing.

• 1990s:
  • Postmodern Culture becomes the first online-only journal with no printed version available.
  • arXiv, the open-access repository of science pre-prints, is launched.

• 2000s:
  • The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is founded.
  • PLOS One, the wildly successful open-access megajournal, begins publishing.

• 2010s:
  • Potential new ways to gauge the impact of research beyond citations and impact factors are described.
  • Several journals begin experimenting with new forms of peer review, new business models, and new funding sources.

*An early version of the Poultry Science Association; not a separate entity