Celebrating the 50th anniversary of bulletin of engineering geology and the environment
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EDITORIAL
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of bulletin of engineering geology and the environment Resat Ulusay 1 & Louis Wong 2 Published online: 18 August 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
“Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology” and “Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment”, as its previous and recent names, respectively, is the official journal of the International Association of Engineering Geology (IAEG) and created in 1970, six years after the establishment of IAEG. Starting as a simple artisanal publication, the Bulletin became a scientific reference among the most respected journals in the fields of engineering geology, the environment and other geoscience. This year, we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Bulletin. It has been great honor and pleasure for the two Editors-in-Chief of the Bulletin to select 15 papers, with the assistance from the publisher, Samuel Goodchild for free access during September – October 2020. Three papers published in each decade with the highest number of citations are selected. The IAEG was founded in 1964. At that time, few international societies had their own scientific journal. The first elected executive committee of IAEG decided at their second meeting at the UNESCO Palace, Paris, in May 1969 to create an official scientific journal of the IAEG, edited and published by the Association and named the “Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology”. As the official journal of IAEG, the Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology was first published in 1970. The first Bulletin was distributed during the 1st IAEG Congress held in September 1970 in Paris, particularly
* Resat Ulusay [email protected] 1
Department of Geological Engineering, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
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Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
with the personal efforts of Quido Záruba, the IAEG president, Jaroslav Pašek, Marcel Arnould and several other staff from the Paris School of Mines. In the first editorial in Bulletin No. 1 (presumably written by the secretary general, Marcel Arnould), it was indicated that the “Bulletin was not seen as being in competition with other engineering geological journals, rather, it is intended to be a common platform for communication where our members and all engineering geologists will find the news from the field of engineering geology”. Marcel Arnould also wrote in the first editorial that the executive committee wanted the Bulletin to be a relatively modest affair with only two issues per year so that costs and, hence, subscription rates could be kept to a minimum. The 1969 meeting in Paris also determined that the Bulletin would be bilingual, in the sense that authors could submit papers in either French or English. Each paper was to have an abstract and keywords in both French and English. This was in accordance with the founding philosophy of the IAEG, as stated in its statutes.
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