Evaluation of Croatian journals covered by the ISI databases (Institute for Scientific Information)

The importance of ISI databases, citation indices or Web of Science (WoS), and Journal Citation Report (JCR) and Current Contents (CC) databases in journal evaluation is discussed in this article. Actually, the emphasis in the analysis was on JCR and the impact factor (IF). Impact factors of Croatian journals covered in JCR were anlayzed. Also, a comparison was made between the impact factor of journals from candidate countries for EU membership: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Malta, Cyprus, and Turkey in order to obtain a realistic picture of the status of Croatian journals. Several reasons were stated to account for the current status of Croatian journals covered in the JCR database