The Journal of Youth and Adolescence at 50: Completing the Move Toward a Curator Model of Editing

A decade ago, an editorial highlighted how the journal reflected a matured study of adolescence and was leaving a strong intellectual footprint (see Levesque 2011a). Before that anniversary, the journal had been shifting its mission. The journal had narrowed its focus to quantitative research that vigorously tested data. It had taken many years to reach the end of that shift, but it was squarely settled in the journal’s mission by the beginning of its 4th decade. This editorial examines the model of editing that supports the shift and some of its outcomes as the journal enters its fifth decade. …