Abstract:

The research aimed to analyse the language of publication of journals classified under humanistic sciences (humanities) at Hrčak, the portal of scientific journals of Croatia. As for their scopes, the journals were categorized into mono-disciplinary, intra-area and inter-area ones. Most journals allocated to the humanistic sciences were published either exclusively or mainly in Croatian, and English appeared to be the second most frequent publication language. The yielded results point to two directions in Croatian scientific journals in terms of the publication language. On the one hand, they aim to the international dissemination of the research results, which implies that the articles are published in English or some other widespread language. On the other hand, cultural traditions should be preserved, and one way of doing so is to publish in the standard Croatian language. Interestingly, containing articles written in English did not prove to be a factor for the inclusion of journals in the Web of Science (WoS). Ultimately, the language of the journals’ titles of the three scope categories was scrutinized for both the whole sample and the subsample of journals indexed in the Web of Science. In both cases, the predominance of the journals’ titles in Croatian was evident.

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