Mine water and the environment: History until volume 40 and the new cover design
Wolkersdorfer, Christian
Wolkersdorfer, Christian
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This year, IMWA’s journal Mine Water and the Environment is celebrating its 40th volume, and by the end of 2021, more than 1000 articles will have been published in this journal
(author and article index on www. IMWA. info/ author index and www. IMWA. info/ artic les). A total of 2299 authors contributed to these articles, ranging from Abaci et al. (1992)
to Żurek et al. (2018). It is a long history of ups and downs, which started with the journal’s first issue in March 1982 (Fig. 1); at that time, the journal’s title was the International Journal of Mine Water (www. IMWA. info/ 40th- anniversary- volume. html). It was initiated by the founding fathers of IMWA and the first Editor-in-Chiefs were Raghu Singh and Rafael Fernández
Rubio (Wolkersdorfer 2002). From this year, until April 2000, it was self-published by the association. Between 1982 and 2000, issues of the journal were printed in Granada, Madrid, Budapest, Nottingham, Castro Verde, Wollongong, Denver, and Loveland. During that time, IMWA often did not have enough manuscripts; therefore, volumes 8, 15, and 16 never appeared in print. One of the reasons for this is that IMWA didn’t have many members at that time, and the journal was not as well-known as it is today. That situation changed substantially when the current Editor, Bob Kleinmann, became Editor-in-Chief during the Bled/Slovenia IMWA Congress in 1997. He was able to attract new authors to the journal, so that the journal could
be published regularly and changed its name to Mine Water and the Environment. Still, the journal was mainly known primarily by the IMWA family, until the newly appointed
IMWA councillor, Christian Wolkersdorfer, got in contact with the international publisher Springer (now Springer Nature) in 1999. During the Katowice, Poland Congress, Christian Witschel from Springer Heidelberg informed the IMWA EC about the details of the publishing process. This resulted in some long nights, where the Editor-in-Chief and the Technical Editor learned how to format the papers using MS Word to meet the Springer layout criteria. Eventually, this meeting resulted in a professional relationship between IMWA and Springer, with the first issue published in Berlin in December 2000.
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2021-07-14
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Water, Mine, Environment, History, Volume