Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 81 No. 1, 2011.
Preliminary communication
Do we Need Croatian Scientific Periodicals and what Kind? Sketch on the Topic of: the Place and Future of Scientific Periodicals in Croatia
Siniša Zrinščak
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Department of Social Work, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article analyses certain aspects of the production and publication of scientific periodicals within the framework of the discussion of the place and future of Croatian scientific periodicals. The author firstly presents some basic facts about public financing of scientific periodicals over the past few years, their international exposure and ties between periodicals with criteria of progress in science-education professions. The author narrows the analysis to the field of social sciences (primarily periodicals in the field of sociology) which based on information available to the author he discusses the references of periodicals, their share in domestic and foreign texts and the quality of reviewing. In conclusion the author points out some key problems with the publication of periodicals which primarily relate to promoting good editorial practise and learning from international experiences. The author in particular highlights the relationship of periodicals to the development of science, embededness of science (and subsequently scientific periodicals) in Croatian culture and Croatian language, and from that perspective the author stresses the importance of continual funding of periodicals with an even stronger motivation to raise the quality of scientific periodicals.
Keywords
scientific periodicals; quality; development; future; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
66588
URI
Publication date:
12.4.2011.
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