Editorial.

Nevin (1982) is a short editorial. The editor saw fewer new studies coming in. He asked readers to keep sending fresh work so the journal would stay alive.

The page count told the story. Submissions had dropped. Without new data, the journal risked fading out.

Holburn (1997) later showed most authors still came from North America. That pattern may help explain why the flow of papers stayed thin.

Demello et al. (1992) counted citations and found behavior journals talked mostly to themselves. Low outside interest can feed low submission.

Morris (2014) flips the worry outward. Instead of begging insiders for more papers, it urges authors to pitch their work to new, non-ABA outlets. Together the papers trace a 30-year arc: first we asked our own tribe to write more, then we learned to speak to the wider world.

If you sit on a thesis, case study, or quirky data set, hit submit. Your one paper fights the same slump Nevin (1982) spotted. If the gatekeepers look too narrow, follow Morris (2014): re-frame the story for a general journal and let new readers find us.