From Take-off to Sustained Growth and Maturity – Reflections on a Half-Century of Rapid JDS Development
回顾了JDS期刊前50年的发展历程，描述了其从创立到成为发展研究领域主要跨学科期刊的快速成长，并分析了成功原因。
This paper reflects on salient aspects of the development of JDS over its first 50 years. The journal’s origins and its aspirations to become the major inter-disciplinary journal in development studies are described. The rapid growth in the number of papers submitted to the journal and in the volume of its published articles are documented, and reasons for the journal's success are suggested.