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The Next 40 Years of Impact of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin

After 40 years of publication, we should consider not only our true impact as a journal on global health but also how we might measure that impact going forward. Academic journals like the Food and Nutrition Bulletin may have impact through multiple mechanisms, most obviously in a passive manner, through sharing of scientific and other knowledge to a wide audience, academic and other. A journal may also actively promote new directions in research and scholarship through calls for papers and open statements of interest in novel topic areas. Journals with a focus on translational science may have impact outside academia; for example, on development of public policy. A high-quality, peer-review process should actively support authors through careful cultivation and guidance of scientific expression and analysis. The editors of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin consider each of these categories of impact, and particularly the last, to be no less important than the simple publication of scholarship. As has been stated and reiterated in editorials during the past year of anniversary celebration, the mission of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin is to build capacity for nutrition science as a foundation to food and nutrition policy, especially in developing countries. In response to this mission, which we feel is integral to our vision of impact through peer review, our editors welcome work by graduate students and young researchers from around the world and publish their work alongside research by the foremost names in international nutrition. More than half of the journal’s published authors in any given year are from developing countries, and in a typical year, the authorship spans 30 or more countries on 6 continents. All authors, regardless of tenure or location of scholarship, bring new insight into issues in the field of international nutrition. We expect each article published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin to have some generalizable import, however, and ask of our authors a high level of intellectual rigor. To reach a sufficient level of quality, some articles with a solid intellectual core still require a great deal of attention from reviewers and editors. Where some journals ask reviewers to identify what is novel in a manuscript, or other factors that may indicate likely future citation of the article, the Food and Nutrition Bulletin asks only that peer reviewers provide honest comments that will assist authors to revise and improve their research and writing. Even the two-thirds of manuscripts that are never published in our pages receive some level of review and comment. For those manuscripts that reach the level of priority for peer review, the journal’s Editorial Board and other regular reviewers, well aware of the journal’s dual mission, respond with enthusiastic support.