CREAT. MATH. INFORM. Volume 25 (2016), No. 2, Pages i - viii Online version at https://creative-mathematics.cunbm.utcluj.ro/ Print Edition: ISSN 1584 - 286X; Online Edition: ISSN 1843 - 441X DOI: https://doi.org/10.37193/CMI.2016.02.01 Creative Mathematics and Informatics: Celebrating a quarter century of publication VASILE BERINDE ABSTRACT. In order to mark the 25th anniversary of the journal Creative Mathematics and Informatics, we give a brief account on the main facts on its evolution since the previous anniversary notice published 5 years ago [Berinde, V., Creative Mathematics and Informatics: Celebrating 20 years of publication, Creat. Math. Inform., 20 (2011), No. 2, i - vi]. 1. I NTRODUCTION Under the current name, Creative Mathematics and Informatics was edited in the last 14 years, succeeding the earlier journal Lucr˘ arile Seminarului de Creativitate Matematic˘ a, that was founded 25 years ago. For a very short period of time (2003-2005, i.e., volumes 12, 13 and 14), the journal bore the intermediate shorter name Creative Mathematics. For more information on these historical details, we refer the reader to our anniversary article [5] (and also to [2] and [3], for those able to understand Romanian language). The initial vision of a local journal written in Romanian and devoted to elementary mathematics (problem solving), didactics of mathematics as well as to history of mathe- matics, has in the meantime given way, starting with 2003, to a journal in which English is the only language accepted for submitted material. Moreover, the initial ideal that this journal is open for faculty and students from Baia Mare University evolved step by step to a broader editorial policy that made the journal open to contributions of scholars all over the world. At the time of CMI’s founding, the field of journals accepting papers not only in el- ementary mathematics / problem solving but also in history of mathematics, included many printed or electronically journals that are still keeping the same profile. Creative Mathematics and Informatics has, for better or worse, changed significantly its remit since the years it bears the new English name. It accepts not only papers in ele- mentary mathematics (problem solving), didactics of mathematics as well as in history of mathematics, but also in higher mathematics and computer science, with a perspec- tive to interdisciplinary works that involve in a significant amount mathematics and / or computer science, as its name clearly announces. 2. CMI ’ S ON- LINE EDITORIAL SYSTEM I shall start by presenting what I am considering to be the main achievement of the re- ported period 2012-2016, i.e., the designing, testing and implementing of the autonomous on-line editorial submission system SEMN (http://semn.ubm.ro/cmi/). When designing SEMN for CMI (it has been simultaneously implemented for our jour- nal Carpathian J. Math., see http://semn.ubm.ro/cjm/), I had the chance to profit from two different professional experiences: Received: 15.04.2016. In revised form: 23.04.2016. Accepted: 28.04.2016 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 01A05, 01A61, 01A65, 01A70, 01A99 . Key words and phrases. journal anniversary, geographic coverage, on-line editorial system, impact, visibility. i