The Combinatorial Theory Flip

"The decision to create a new mathematician-owned journal did not happen overnight. It was first considered in 2004 by Hélène Barcelo, who was editor-in chief. At the time, this was not feasible due to the high workload and generous support by Elsevier. In 2016, Timothy Gowers contacted the editors of JCTA proposing to create a Diamond Open Access journal without immediate success. Over the past 20 years, the editors-in-chief of JCTA started to involve the community more in the editorial process by distributing the workload. In 2020 the community was finally ready to embrace the change. It took the hard work and dedication of many individuals to make this happen...."