Serving optometry for 100 years: the story of Clinical and Experimental Optometry

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Notes

^a Professor Cole was Chairman of the Editorial Board of Clinical and Experimental Optometry from 1999 to 2016.

^b The error was a bit more complex. The single orphaned Issue 1 (Feb) of Volume 11 1929 should have been Issue 12 of Volume 10 because at that time volumes began in March and ended with the February issue in the following year, rather than being contained within a calendar year. This was because the first Issue, No. 1 1919, had been published in March and the plan was for 12 monthly issues in each volume.

^c Except Western Australia, which was not interested enough at the time to attend and Tasmania whose representative lost his way en route to Melbourne.

^d The use of the word ‘Australasian’ left the door open to New Zealand joining the new national association but this was never pursued and in 1953 the name of the association was changed to the Australian Optometrical Association and is now Optometry Australia.

^e The publisher is given as the Australian Optometrical Association at the address of the national office in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria from Issue No. 9 1978. Previous issues give the address of the editorial office as that of the NSW Division in Sydney.

^f Journal abstracts ceased in 2015, when David Cockburn at the age of 90 stepped down from the job of searching the literature for pertinent articles and writing his often acerbic or amusing Mini‐abstracts that were always very informative. He had done this for 23 years for almost every issue since Issue No. 4 1992. His last set of Mini‐abstracts was published in Issue No. 4 2015.

^g Scholarly articles are original reviews, research papers and clinical communications. Clinical and Experimental Optometry publishes other articles such as editorials, profiles, obituaries and viewpoints. In 2015, the total number of articles published was 106 and 119 in 2014.

^h There is a fourth, the journal of the British Contact Lens Association, Contact Lens and Anterior Eye. It is ISI listed and has an impact factor of 1.75; however, this is a journal published by an association for a specialised topic (contact lenses), membership of which is not confined to optometrists.