CARPATHIAN J. MATH. Volume 36 (2020), No. 3, Pages i - iv Online version at https://www.carpathian.cunbm.utcluj.ro/ Print Edition: ISSN 1584 - 2851; Online Edition: ISSN 1843 - 4401 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37193/CJM.2020.03.01 Carpathian Journal of Mathematics celebrates 30 years of publication VASILE BERINDE ABSTRACT. Following a well established tradition of marking the main anniversary moments of the journal by an editorial, see the previous ones: [Berinde, V., Anniversary: Ten years of publication of the new series of Buletin S ¸ tiint ¸ific, Bul. S ¸tiint ¸. Univ. Baia Mare, Ser. B., Matematic˘ a-Informatic˘ a, 16 (2000), No. 1, i–ii], [Berinde, V., Carpathian Journal of Mathematics: Celebrating 20 years of publication of the new series, Carpathian J. Math., 21 (2010), No. 2, i–vi], [Berinde, V., CJM celebrates 25 years of publication of its new series, Carpathian J. Math., 26 (2015), No. 3, i–vi], it is the main aim of this note to present a brief account of what has been achieved since the previous anniversary editorial written five years ago. This year marks the thirtieth year of publication of our journal, so it is indeed a great chance of me as the founding Editor of Carpathian Journal of Mathematics to be still an acting Editor-in-Chief and thus have the rare privilege to mark, by means of this editorial note included in the last issue (No. 3) of volume 36 (2020), its 30th year of publication. It was the unique chance and opportunity for me to set the course for the development of the journal since its inception in the fall of 1990 till today, a long journey that subsumed a huge and passionate work to which I devoted a lot of time, intellectual energy and enthusiasm. All these efforts are rewarded by many achievments, of which I mention just the fact that this year, Carpathian Journal of Mathematics attained its highest Web of Science impact factor (IF=1.438). The first issue of CJM as a periodical journal has been printed in 1991 under the name Buletinul S ¸tiint ¸ific al Universit ˘ at ¸ii din Baia Mare, Seria B, Fascicola Matematic˘ a-Informatic˘ a, abbreviated as Bul. S ¸tiint ¸. Univ. Baia Mare, Ser. B, Matematic˘ a-Informatic˘ a, a name in- herited from its non periodical predecessor, Buletin S ¸tiint ¸ific, published irregularly in the period 1969-1989. The new journal wore this name for 12 years, in the period 1991-2002. In 2002 I have proposed the current name, Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, to my colleagues from the local Editorial Board. They agreed and it turned out that this has been indeed a very inspired name, as later one other three journals edited at our university adopted the syn- tagm ”Carpathian Journal of” (two of them are actually indexed in Web of Science). In order to give an idea on how the starting circumstances were, I take the liberty to quote again a brief story of the foundation of the journal, reproduced from my first editorial [1] (and which was also included in [2] and [3]). ”In 1990, I joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Uni- versity of Baia Mare, where I remained since. As a fresh and very enthusiastic Assistant Professor, one of my plans was the founding of a true mathematical journal instead of the hybrid nonperiodical publication I mentioned above. I have easily obtained the approval of Professor I. Coroian, at that time the Dean of Faculty of Letters and Sciences, to do so, and consequently, he and me were appointed as Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Secretary, respectively.” Received: 15.08.2020. In revised form: 15.08.202020. Accepted: 23.08.2020 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 01A99. Key words and phrases. journal publication: anniversary. i