Editorial on PBZ's Ninetieth Year and Top 90 Papers in PBZ, 1927-2017.

“With great power there must also come—great responsibility!” (Lee 1962). I have kept this in mind during my editorship of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (PBZ), and I have tried to shepherd the journal into the beginning decades of the twenty-first century by increasing online supplements, adding new sections that will expand our readership, and selecting only the best and most fitting papers for publication (Garland 2014). PBZ is entering its ninetieth year of publication, and I am proud to count myself among the editors who have led the journal to its current status as a respected international publication that presents the best and most responsible research into animal physiology with an ecological and evolutionary perspective (see table 1). Many of our editors have been eminent scientists, such as Thomas Park, whoseNew York Times obituary (published April 4, 1992) credits him with being “instrumental in transforming the field of ecology into a science with quantification and controlled experiments.” Or consider Warder Clyde Allee, who Wikipedia recognizes as “one of the great pioneers of American ecology.” And then we have Clifford Ladd Prosser, referred to in his obituary by the American Physiological Society as “among the few giants of comparative physiology in the second half of the twentieth century” (also see Hazel and Sidell 2002). To celebrate the ninetieth year of PBZ, we have collaborated to bring you a list of the 90 most cited papers ever published in PBZ (including papers in its precursor, Physiological Zoology