Editorial Reflections on 70 years of Deep-Sea Research

The journal Deep-Sea Research was first published in October 1953 directed by the Joint Commission on Oceanography to focus on the deep-sea floor as the main theme. Here we review the history of the journal through 12 editors and two publishers, Pergamon (1953-1991) and Elsevier (1991-present). From 1962 to 1991 abstracts and bibliographies as well as original research papers were published. From 1992 the journal has focussed on original papers, in two series; Part I for individual submissions and Part II for topical collections of papers compiled by guest editors. The scope of the journal has grown to encompass the entire open ocean from the air-sea interface to beneath the sea floor. From over 10,000 papers, 70 have been selected and are reviewed by the present editors.