Dr. David Pearson, DClinPsychol, and Dr. Fiona Kennedy, DClinPsychol, Dream a Dream NGO research team, Bengaluru, India, write:

We would like to start by congratulating Dr Bob Stewart and the team on achieving the 50th volume of Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. This must surely be a unique achievement. We are a small group of researchers and social entrepreneurs working in the developing world. The main aim of SBP Journal fifty volumes ago was “to draw out the best from social scientists rather than creating obstacles” and to be “a place that encouraged new ideas.”

We were in the fortunate position of reaching a stage in life when new directions could be considered. The move from an academic health lab to blackboard and chalk in the developing world was rather challenging. Our first research meetings took place in a coconut grove outside an orphanage. The danger of falling coconuts was a real risk that we had not accounted for! We also found equally challenging the skepticism that many journals had when considering research that did not come from a standard team in a standard university department. Journals often felt that their readers would not be interested in developing world research. This was when our relationship with SBP Journal started. An open-minded approach was taken by SBP Journal whilst maintaining absolute scientific rigor and quality. The review and editing process has been transparent, with the ability to reach an end point.

The results of our research published with SBP Journal currently impacts on millions of disadvantaged children in the developing world, some of whom are on the edges of survival. The Life Skills Assessment scale is in widespread use in the developing world and gained a Global Innovation Award in Helsinki. None of this could have been possible without the support and positive attitude of the SBP Journal team.

Our message to the SBP Journal team is that you have truly fulfilled the original aims of the journal, and we hope that the 50th volume is a stepping-stone towards the 100th.

Jin Nam Choi, PhD, Professor of OB/HRM, Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, and member of the SBP Board of Consulting Editors, writes:

Congratulations to the SBP Journal editors and staff members for publishing scholarly articles for the past 50 years! Indeed, this is not a small feat in academia and not many journals have such a tremendous history. I believe that the adaptive and flexible coverage of topical issues from various psychology disciplines, such as social, personality, industrial, and organizational psychology, based on both basic and applied perspectives, contribute to the sustainability and thriving of SBP Journal as a reputable academic outlet. More important, the lasting and continued success of SBP Journal should be attributed to the prompt and collegial editorial processes and amazing author services, such as friendly and frequent updates, high-quality copyediting, and collaborative accommodation of author requests throughout the publication process. I wish to see the continued contribution of SBP Journal as a critical source of novel insights and theoretical developments in our literature.

Zhenyuan (James) Wang, Head of Department of Business Administration, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, writes:

On the 50th anniversary of Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, I would like to express my best wishes to the editors and team members. In 2016, I published my first article in SBP Journal, also my first SSCI-listed journal article. During the submission process, the reviewers gave my coauthors and I constructive comments and helped us to improve our manuscript. I appreciated the timely reviewing process and the excellent copyediting work. I would like to recommend SBP Journal to scholars from the management field, especially in organizational behavior. When I am interested in a topic that is still in its infancy, or relatively unstudied, I often find relevant articles in SBP Journal. The SBP Journal team is clearly sensitive and open-minded to publishing new topics. As the world rapidly changes, my wish is that SBP Journal can keep focusing on novel and important topics to contribute to scholarly research.

Juan Li, doctoral student, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of China, writes:

As doctoral students, my coauthors and I have particularly appreciated the review comments for our manuscripts submitted for possible publication in Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. Our experience has been that SBP Journal has been very supportive of our professional growth.

I greatly appreciate the help from the editorial team members. I absolutely believe that the quality of the edited manuscript is a significant improvement. This work will be the best study of my academic career! Thank you very much.

The published article looks great. Thank you very much for your assistance that helped us achieve this wonderful outcome.

Thank you so much for all your kind help and support! Again, I will look forward to continuing to work with SBP Journal.

We would like to express our great appreciation to editors and reviewers for the valuable comments and suggestions on our manuscript. We have had pleasant experiences with the honored SBP Journal. Thank you so much for your support. We really appreciate it.

Thanks for the great support of your team. I hope to get another opportunity to work with you again in the future.

Thank you very much! I don’t know how to thank you for all you have done for us. A Chinese proverb says, “A drop of water offered as a little help, deserves a fountain to return the favor.” I am a fan of your journal and will submit more articles to you in the future and will let more people know about the work you do.