Ten Years of Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues , and Thoughts on Future Directions
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Ten Years of Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and Thoughts on Future Directions Elizabeth M. Dolan1 Accepted: 30 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
We always begin our research reports with a review of the literature to orient ourselves, and our readers, to what prior research has revealed about our topics. This Special Issue is a review of the research published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues (JFEI) over the last 10 years. This past decade has been an important one for JFEI as it has experienced phenomenal growth – in both numbers of submissions and in prestige. While the number of submissions had been growing steadily throughout the decade, acceptance into the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) to start receiving an impact factor fueled the number of submissions, in addition to the reputation of the journal. Therefore, it seemed fitting for us to review what we have learned from the last 10-years of JFEI publications and make suggestions regarding where researchers should focus their efforts in the future. Discussions between Joyce Serido and Elizabeth Dolan revolved around how to publish what would inevitably be something too large for a single issue of JFEI. With input from JFEI’s Springer liaison, it was determined that a virtual journal issue would be the appropriate platform. Since one of the primary goals was to move research forward with suggestions for future research, we decided to also publish all the future directions sections in the December 2020 issue of JFEI. The authors were given very few instructions on how to proceed with their task. They were sent the list of papers to review, told to focus on the JFEI papers, limit outside references, and to end their reviews with their thoughts on future directions (limited to about 2 pages). The reader will find that authors approached their themes in different ways which makes for interesting reading. Some authors This is one of several papers published together in Journal of Family and Economic Issues on the “Special Issue on Virtual Decade in Review”. * Elizabeth M. Dolan 1
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warmed to the topic of future directions with many more than 2 pages. These authors were given the option of keeping what they had written for this virtual journal and writing a separate closer-to-2-pages version for publication, or simply cutting their future directions down to about 2 pages. Several authors (e.g., Dew, Bartholomae and Fox, Wilmarth) chose to write a separate, shorter version for publication. Therefore, what you read in JFEI’s December 2020 issue will be different (i.e., shorter) than what you will read here. In 2008, Jeffrey Dew published an overview of JFEI publications from 1988 to 2007 (a total of 420 papers). He identified 15 themes, or categories, of papers. In descending order of number of papers on the topic, the categories Dew (2008) identified were: family resource management (52 papers), division o
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