20th Anniversary of Xjenza (July 1996-July 2016), the official Journal of the Malta Chamber of Scientists

Abstract

It was twenty years ago today that the Malta Chamber of Scientists published the first issue of Xjenza. At one of its meetings, some sixteen months prior to the first issue in July 1996, a member of the Chambber of Scientists put forward the idea of starting a scienti fic journal. After much discussion, the idea was approved by a majority. It was not a unanimous decision, however. Some members even felt that Xjenza would cease to publish after the first few issues. Twenty years later and Xjenza is still going strong, thanks to the hard work of its current Editor-in- Chief Professor Giuseppe Di Giovanni, and other Editors Prof. Richard Muscat and Prof. Joseph N. Grima who kept the journal going between 2002 and 2007.