Laties, V.G. (2008).
The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior at fifty.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 89, 95-109.
The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior was founded in 1958 by a group of male psychologists, mainly
from the northeastern USA and connected with either Harvard or Columbia. Fifty years later about 20% of both
editors and authors reside outside this country and almost the same proportion is women. Other changes in the
journal include having its own website for more than a decade and now publishing online as well as on paper. A
recent connection with PubMed Central of the National Library of Medicine has made possible the completely free
electronic presentation of the entire archive of about 3,800 articles.
Key words: behavior analysis history, women as journal editors, geographical distribution of editors, online
publishing, B. F. Skinner