Perhaps I used the term incorrectly. I don&#x27;t mean &quot;distance&quot; to require someone to &quot;flee&quot; nor not admit its connection, nor do I regard naïvety as a failure.<p>In my field, the main journal used to be &quot;Journal of Computer Documentation&quot;. It spun off from &quot;American Documentation&quot; in the early 1960s. The JCD title changed in the 1970s to &quot;Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences&quot; because &quot;documentation&quot; - a 1920s term - was considered already old-fashioned by the 1960s, and the title didn&#x27;t capture the new focus on computers, and the underlying principles of information science.<p>It then became &quot;Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling&quot; in 2005 because the 1990s showed how to apply those information techniques to make predictive models.<p>Each name change is a form of distancing itself from its previous focus as part of a shift to a new focus.<p>Or is &quot;distance oneself&quot; not applicable for that situation?