Thirty years of publishing osteoarthritis research in perspective — a special journal issue to mark the 30th anniversary of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Thirty years ago, in 1993, our society journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage published its first issue, with the late Roy Altman as editor-in-chief and Paul Dieppe, Sergio Jimenez, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, and Eric Vignon as associate editors. The year before saw the first congress of what was then the Osteoarthritis Research Society take place in Paris, France in December 1992, with some 200 meeting abstracts making up that first issue of OAC.