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Comparison of Croatian scientific journals from natural sciences and humanities – their domain and language of publication

As for scholarly publications, the statement that English has established itself as a lingua franca in the last two or three decades may seem like reinventing the wheel. However, although this fact is more and more frequently criticised from various points of view, it seems that publication policies in scientific community still abide by the principle of publishing in the English language, thus making their texts ‘visible’ and understandable to a wider public. The aim of our research was to compare the domain and the language of publication of journals classified under natural sciences on the one hand and humanities on the other at Hrčak, the portal of scientific journals of Croatia (http://hrcak.srce.hr). The domains, as specified by journals themselves, were predominantly interdisciplinary in both areas. However, the language of publication was what differentiated between them. The journals in all subfields of natural sciences (biology, physics, geosciences, chemistry and mathematics) were predominantly published in the English language. This was not the case with the journals from humanities (history, archaeology, languages, philosophy, art sciences, ethnology and anthropology, theology, literature science and history of art) – those that considered themselves to be interdisciplinary were published predominantly in Croatian. Some journals in both areas have shown similar trends – publishing in English only ; both in English and Croatian ; in Croatian only ; in other languages apart from English and Croatian as well. Linguistic journals showed a tendency of publishing in English, but also in Croatian. As for journals classified under natural sciences, departure from these trends appeared in mathematics in which only two journals were not exclusively mathematics-oriented.

Croatian scientific journals ; domain ; language of publication

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