Visibility and (alt)metrics of the Croatian Open Access (OA) journals
(2013)Description
For a small research community from the so called scientific periphery it's important to publish in the well-established international journals as well as to make their papers published in local journals visible to the international audience. Journal quality metrics, such as impact factor, are increasingly being used as a measure of researchers’ prestige and the advancement in career in Croatia. Croatian researchers are under pressure to publish their papers in the journals with high impact factors, and the metrics at article level has been often neglected. Specially in the scientific disciplines like social sciences and humanities researchers are facing a dilemma to publish in the popular, often fee- based, international journals or in the local OA journals recognized by a professional audience.