Innovation abounds in research administration (RA) and RA research. Members of the editorial board of the "Research Management Review" ("RMR") have borne witness to many of these changes over their combined decades of experience, and the journal's content has reflected and inspired growth in the profession and its scholarship. In this piece, the journal's board members reflect on past changes and project future directions in the field of RA and the content of "RMR". Text mining of the content from all issues of "RMR" helped to illustrate and reveal the trends observed by the editorial board.