Establishment / History
Issue no. 0 of the news bulletin of the Hungarian Economists' Society of Romania (RMKT) was published on the 24th of January 1998, at the initiative of the founding Editor-in-Chief, József SOMAI, who edited the journal from 1998 until 2009.
The journal bears the name Közgazdász Fórum (Economist’s Forum) since 1999, starting with issue no. 4; as of the same time it functions as an officially recorded magazine (ISSN 1582-1986) that accepts scientific papers for publication. The journal was named Forum Economic in Romanian and Economist’s Forum in English.
In 2006, the Hungarian section of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca joined the editorship of the periodical as an institution, and the publication became the joint academic journal of the two organizations. As a result of the joint efforts, the same year the journal gained accreditation by the Romanian National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSIS).
Bálint Zsolt NAGY lead the redaction as Editor-in-Chief between 2009 and 2012. He established the practice that five Hungarian-language issues and one English-language issue are published every year, thus creating the possibility for the journal to be included, as of 2010 (starting with issue no. 92), into two internationally acknowledged scientific databases (Proquest and EBSCO).
Kinga KEREKES took over as Editor-in-Chief in July 2012. Under her leadership, for two and a half years (until the end of 2014), the journal appeared as previously, with bi-monthly issues.
In order to ensure the high professional standards of the journal and to increase its international recognition, the editorial board decided that as of 2015, four issues of the journal shall be published each year, two of them containing papers in Hungarian, while the other two in English. Likewise, as of 2015 the English name of the journal is Forum on Economics and Business, which is a better expression of the journal's openness towards all business sciences, as opposed to the old denomination, Economist’s Forum, which suggested that the journal covered a relatively narrow speciality.
