Capturing the conversation of Trust Research

Hamm, J. A., van der Werff, L., Osuna, A. I., Blomqvist, K., Blount-Hill, K. L., Gillespie, N., … Tomlinson, E. C. (2024). Capturing the conversation of trust research. Journal of Trust Research, 14(1), 1–7.

The Journal of Trust Research launched in 2011 as the go-to source for ‘critical insights into the unique features and roles of trust within and across disciplines’ (Li, 2011, p. 1). Since then, JTRhas published over 150 articles across 13 volumes and 26 issues which include four specialissues exploring multilevel trust (Fulmer & Dirks, 2018), negotiations and repeated bargaining(Kong et al., 2017), international relations (Haukkala et al., 2015), and calculativeness (Möller-ing, 2014). The journal’s most read and most cited work demonstrates a clear commitment toadvancing a nuanced understanding of the nature and dynamics of trust. JTR has, therefore,been successful in collecting the empirical and conceptual fruits of scholarship exploringtrust in a wide variety of contexts and from an even wider variety of substantive and methodo-logical perspectives. Our impact is then demonstrated, in part, through our first impact factor,released last year Capturing the breadth and depth of a construct like trust can only be achieved with thehelp of a deeply engaged community like the one that JTR enjoys. Closely associated withthe First International Network of Trust, our journal brings together a passionate communityof editors, reviewers, authors, and readers, all working to foster a cross-boundary science oftrust.