Lutra 50(2)_Editorial_2007

50 Volumes of Lutra (2)

This year Lutra celebrates its 50th Volume. This provides a good moment to both look back at what has happened on the pages of our journal and ahead and try to recognise the challenges facing Lutra and possible new directions that it may take in the near future. In the editorial of Lutra 50-1 we provided an overview of the establishment and organisation of Lutra and its editorial history. Here we take a closer look at what has been published and identify key trends in the origin or content of the articles that we have published. Over the following pages we present some statistics on Lutra that provide a symbolic closure of roughly half a century of Lutra but which we hope will also inspire all of us, authors and editors, to continue producing interesting papers on the study and conservation of mammals. The first 50 volumes of Lutra contained 1145 contributions, an average of almost 23 contributions per volume....