JRF – The First 100 Volumes

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Brian Cook
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.1000002
Volume/Issue:
Volume 100: Issue 1
Page Range:
2–4
Article Type:
Research Article
Online Publication Date:
Jan 1994
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Small annual meetings on reproduction, from which the Society for the Study of Fertility (SSF) was to develop, started in 1944. The proceedings of these meetings were first published in 1947 by the Family Planning Association under the title Conference on Infertility. From 1949 to 1953, Heffers published the Proceedings of the Society for the Study of Fertility and, from 1954, Blackwell Scientific Publications continued with Studies on Fertility. As early as 1952, the possibility of producing a quarterly journal was raised, but finance proved a major obstacle. In 1956, Alan Parkes proposed, on behalf of the SSF, that the Journal of Endocrinology should become the official organ of the SSF, and that it should be renamed the Journal of Endocrinology and Reproduction. Solly Zuckerman supported this initiative, but views of members of the Society for Endocrinology on the proposal were so divided that the idea was abandoned.

In 1957,

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Print ISSN:
1470-1626
Online ISSN:
1741-7899