The Visibility of Papers Written by Authors from European Post-Socialist Countries as an Indicator of Integration into the EU Legal System

Abstract

publish more in a lingua franca, which nowadays means English. The other possible way is to enhance the visibility and strengthen the position of scientifi c journals published in CEE countries by accepting professional journal standards. Needless to say, the aspect of the content and issues explored and published is also crucial.

Internationalisation in Scholarly Publishing in Croatia through the Lens of Bibliometric Overview of the Journal Društvena Istraživanja

“…• Many articles in national journals included in WoS are published in Croatian, which greatly impedes their outreach to potential audiences. This conclusion corresponds with previous findings that show that articles published in prominent international journals in English are distinctly more visible to the academic community (Zgrabljić Rotar et al, 2018).…”

“…This research reveals that international orientations in Croatian scholarly publishing in the social sciences is insubstantial. A relatively large number of Croatian social science journals in the international citation databases, primarily WoS, and an increased number of publications in such journals does not necessarily correlate to the greater international visibility of publications and an improvement in the quality of scientific research and publishing (World Bank, 2019, p. 65;Jokić, 2020;Zgrabljić Rotar et al, 2018). A large number of articles in general have received little or no citation, suggesting that the quality of the scientific publications in Croatia should be improved, especially when compared to countries with similar or lower investments in R&D. Uncited publications represent missed opportunities for authors to reach wider audiences and contribute to their fields of science internationally (World Bank, 2019).…”

“…A distinctive feature of all Croatian journals in the social sciences (and in many other disciplines) indexed by the WoS is that, for the majority of them, IF does not exceed the value of 0.5, placing them into the fourth quartile (Table 8). More precisely, Croatian journals are at the bottom of the list of indexed journals (Jokić & Lasić-Lazić, 2015) like many CEE journals and, alongside these journals, they possess high numbers of non-cited papers (Jokić, 2020) or low-cited papers (Jokić et al, 2012;Zgrabljić Rotar et al, 2018) Another characteristic of journals in the social sciences indexed in WoS is that the dominant share of authors are from Croatia and many of these authors publish articles in Croatian, around 65% of articles (Macan et al, 2012, p. 511). Articles in native languages are less frequently cited than papers in English (Moed et al, 2020).…”

“…On the other hand, some believe that a large number of national journals encourages researchers to publish in those journals that are less rigorous in evaluation, less prestigious and, consequently, potentially less visible at an international level (Marušić & Marušić, 2015;Jokić et al, 2017;Jokić & Lasić-Lazić, 2015;Marušić & Marušić, 2014;Zgrabljić et al, 2018;Jokić, 2020). Within some social sciences -sociology in particular -a strong criticism of the parochial and provincial nature of the discipline has emerged (Štulhofer et al, 2010;Prpić & Petrović, 2010), encouraging the international orientation of research and publishing (Tomić-Koludrović, 2009).…”

Lost in transition? Freedom of Contract in Poland and the Central European Experience

“…L. (1999 major role in this process was played by EU private law, which introduced a new view of contract law, quite diverse from the "fossilized" and somewhat simplified concept that was established in the postsocialist era. 180 Nevertheless, as will be further explained below, 181 the EU rules were never fully integrated with the conceptual agenda of domestic contract law, 182 but, rather, functioned next to it, with a partly separate set of rules, values and policy goals. In this way the libertarian concept of freedom of contract -once set at the specific moment of the "shock" transformationbecame surprisingly persistent as an element of the collective imagination, occupying both a theoretical agenda, as well as judicial and political assertions.…”