Abstract
The report gives a brief overview of the history and development of Soils and Foundations from its founding in 1960 to the golden jubilee year 2010. The statistics concerning the journal's distribution and the academic contents of the published papers are presented, updated from those first published by Takemura et al. (1999). Major events are chronicled and their impacts the assessed on the readers, contributors and the course of the journal's later development. Such events include online publishing and adopting the impact factor, among others. The long-term trends in the research topics, employed approaches (experimental, analytical, etc.), authors' identity, etc. are discussed based on the statistics considering all the papers published in the past. The report also offers a complementary perspective to the journal's contributions to the geotechnical society by reviewing the award-winning papers.
