Did you know that the first issue in the very first journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, was published almost 360 years ago in March 1665? Fast forward to 2023. In February 2023, Scopus reported a milestone – over 90 million records with 7,000 publishers in 105 countries providing content from 27,950 active peer-reviewed journals; and this continues to grow. However, in reviewing the original format of the first 1655 journal and considering its proposed functions, one can see remarkable consistencies over the centuries. Like contemporary journals, the original format included an editorial, research papers, letters, and commentaries. Regarding functions, the editor, Henry Oldenburg, aspired to address both needs of the author and the readers and provided a platform for certification via peer review to ensure proper conduct of research and the veracity of the claims, dissemination and access, and archiving to create permanent record in the public domain (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstl). These functions speak to advancing knowledge and creating evidence. As time has passed, evidence for health interventions has grown exponentially, and the constructs of evidence-based medicine (coined in 1990 by McMaster University Professor in Medicine, Gordon Guyatt; Sackett et al., Citation1996) and evidence-based practice have been defined, have evolved, and have emerged as the hallmark of practice and education in speech-language pathology.