CROATIAN JOURNALS AT THE END OF THE 20 CENTURY
CROATIAN JOURNALS AT THE END OF THE 20 CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: There are in Croatia 241 journals appearing at least twice a year. They make for about 2/3 of those periodic publications whose contents are recorded in the Croatian Bibliography. Series B, contributions in journals and proceedings. Their scientific communicability (sci.comm.) was evaluated by four indicators: peer review, language, timeliness/regularity, and foreign authorship; journals from the natural and applied-technical sciences (NT) faired considerably better than those from the social sciences and humanities (SH). This dichotomy was also apparent in the 1990 to 1995 comparison. Although there were no dramatic changes, the sci. comm. did improve, and more so for the NT-journals. New SH-journals more frequently appeared and ceased. Hence, the criteria for decision making in science policy must not be identical for all types of journals. The results of the sci. comm. evaluation by our method is congruent with the coverage of Croatian journals in the international secondary information services. This flow into the “capillary” system of scientific information exchange leads to a reasonable “visibility” of Croatian journals via the ISI-journals.

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