Fifty years of materials research papers through the pages of Acta Metallurgica/Materialia Original Research Article

This paper is focussed on a comparison of the contents of volumes 1 (1953) and 50 (2002) of Acta Metallurgica/Materialia, with the aim of analysing the nature of the change as regards both the numbers and locations of the authors, and the subject-matter covered by the published papers. While much has changed drastically over the past half-century, the basic principles laid down by the first editor and his advisers have not changed in essence.