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41 Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Q. 5 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/npvolsq41 and id is 1 raw text is: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 41(1) 5-7 From the Editors' Desk @The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/089976401 1433999 http://nvsq.sagepub.corn OSAGE Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) is the journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). The 2011 ARNOVA Conference marked the 40th anniversary of the association, formerly known as the Association of Voluntary Action Scholars (AVAS). Its by-laws stated that publi- cation of the journal was the foremost purpose of the organization. The Journal of Voluntary Action Research began publication in 1972, changing its name in 1989 to Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. AVAS was renamed the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) in 1990. Soon after the launching of NVSQ and ARNOVA, Brudney and Durden (1993) explored the articles published in the journal over the first two decades of its exis- tence. Based on a content analysis of all 472 articles published in JVAR/NVSQ from 1972 through 1991, they found that the journal had been characterized by substan- tial diversity both in disciplinary affiliation of the authors and topical coverage of the articles. Authors from 34 disciplines (coded by first author) had provided arti- cles, and former editor Jon Van Til estimated that as early as 1980 about 40% of the journal had been devoted to international contributions. Consistent with the goals of the journal set out by founding editor David Horton Smith in the first issue in 1972, Brudney and Durden (1993) documented that research-oriented practitioners had been authors or coauthors of one in six articles. Fast forwarding to 2011, we are still reminded of our mission: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, is an international, interdisciplinary journal for nonprofit sector research dedicated to enhancing our knowledge of nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and voluntarism by providing cutting-edge research, discussion, and analysis of the field. NVSQ pro- vides a forum for researchers from around the world to publish timely articles from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. To this end, the editors strive to meet the mission with each issue of the journal. The articles come from a variety of disciplines, ranging from economics to history and from management to anthropology; most submissions are interdisciplinary. The top- ics, too, show considerable range from how nonprofit organizations manage earnings to youth civic engagement and the development of civil society in China to the willingness to donate to natural disaster relief, and much more. A casual glance at the table of contents of NVSQ shows the breadth and depth of the scholarship pub- lished. The research published in the journal is also international. Table 1 shows that according to the country of origin of the submitting authors of the manuscripts received, only about half of the submissions are from the United States; authors from 28 different countries are responsible for the remainder.

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