[In her contribution to mark the 25th volume of the journal NŐVÉR, the author looks back to a decade in the life of the journal when in her capacity as editor-in-chief, she was involved in shaping Hungary’s only nursing science journal. She takes stock, in chronological order, of the steps that resulted in turning an abstracting periodical into a scientific journal publishing peer-reviewed contributions with English abstracts and indexed in the international nursing science database. ]