I wish I had posted this last year, when it came out:


The Journal of Apicultural Research celebrates 50 years of publication

IBRA’s flagship scientific journal the Journal of Apicultural Research (JAR) has now completed fifty years of continuous publication. In that time, over 1,600 scientific papers have been published in its pages.

IBRA Scientific Director and JAR Senior Editor Norman Carreck says: "In an era when most scientific journals are published by large corporations who have hundreds of titles, for a small independent charity like IBRA, this is a great achievement".

JAR was founded in 1962 to satisfy the need for a peer-reviewed  scientific journal to publish research on all aspects of the study of all species of bee. It has published papers making an important contribution to our knowledge of a wide range of topics. These range from studies of bee biology such as the swarming behaviour of bees, to the properties of hive products such as honey, beeswax and propolis. Throughout its history, many papers have reported research on honey bee pests and diseases. For example, the first ever report that the parasitic mite Varroa could become a pest of the European honey bee was published in JAR in 1963, and more recent papers have made a major contribution to our understanding of the international problem of honey bee colony losses. 

Issue 1 of volume 1 of JAR contained a paper written by Prof. Jerzy Woyke of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland, as does this Issue 4 of Volume 50, published today. In total Prof. Woyke has published 68 papers in JAR, and 2010 marked the 60th year of his scientific publishing. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to bee science, IBRA Council has now conferred Honorary Membership upon Prof. Woyke. IBRA Chairman Hans Kjaersgaard says: "This Honorary Membership is in recognition of his long and distinguished career as well as his many contributions to our journals. He is our longest serving contributor and the only person who contributed to the very first edition who is still busy writing". 

Prof. Woyke has replied: "This is the most important distinction for me, since IBRA is the most distinguished organisation of the bee researchers of the world". 

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