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The Editors-in-Chief take this opportunity to proudly celebrate together with the editorial team the 600th volume of MEPS. Since its founding in 1979, MEPS has changed considerably, as has scientific publishing in general. Here, we offer a few brief comments and consider recent trends as we look back at MEPS’s continued success and look ahead at our bright future. In 1979, rapid advancements in the field of marine ecology led Prof. Otto Kinne to found MEPS and its publisher Inter-Research. Prof. Kinne continued to lead MEPS up to his death at the age of 91 in the spring of 2015. Prof. Kinne’s legacy and stewardship of MEPS is being continued by the dedicated staff at Inter-Research and the new editorial leadership of 4 Editors-in-Chief. This team has helped maintain this journal as a premiere venue for marine ecological research. Over the last 5 years, the journal has published 23 volumes per year, often with 275 to 300 pages per volume. Despite this high throughput, MEPS’s top priority remains publication of only the highest quality science that advances knowledge on processes within the broad field of marine ecology — from microbes to whales, from shallow water coasts to the ocean’s abyssal depths. Scientists tackling questions in marine ecology now face a bewildering selection of potential publication outlets with the creation of an endless number of new journals during the last decade. In some ways, MEPS has become a positive outlier in this new publishing landscape. MEPS continues to focus on quality over quantity. Authors are provided with thorough, critical yet constructive reviews of their work (our average is 2.9 reviews per manuscript) as well as thorough copy-editing during production — both factors leading to a high-quality publication. Our personal approach when communicating and working with authors also defines the ‘MEPS experience’. We at MEPS will maintain these traditions be cause we think they are the hallmark to providing the best publishing experience for authors and top science to readers. The increasing variety of outlets now available to scientists for communicating their work and the new ways in which the success of a scientist is judged constitute other important, recent developments. While it is true that the traditional methods of judging scientific merit, publication of peer-reviewed articles (as a permanent testament to the quality of science being undertaken by the authors) and oral presentations are important, more ephemeral communication outlets continue to grow. In this age of rapid information transfer, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook amongst others are playing an ever-increasing role in science communication. These outlets reach scientists, the public and policy-makers fast; so fast, in fact, that they have become a mainstay for flash news, especially for early career researchers. The role of social media as a tool to assess a scientist’s merit will likely continue to increase.

Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS) celebrates its 600th volume: maintaining top quality in rapidly changing times