CITATNA ANALIZA VJESNIKA BIBLIOTEKARA HRVATSKE PREMA POKAZATELJIMA BIBLIOGRAFSKIH iCITATNIH BAZA SCOPUS iWOSCC: 1950. - 2022.

Purpose. The main objective of this paper is to analyze and explore the citation activity of the papers published in the journal Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske that are covered by the Scopus database and those which are not covered but are cited in the WoSCC database. Methodology. The study was conducted using citation tools and indicators within the databases although the emphasis was on the Scopus indicators (CiteScore, SJR, SNIP). The citations of the papers not covered by the databases were tracked using the Secondary documents tool in Scopus and Cited references in WoSCC. Both tools record the citations of the papers from Vjesnik from 1950 onwards. Findings. In the period from 2009 to 2022, a total of 563 papers were indexed in Scopus and 226 of them were cited 455 times. The distribution of the number of citations by individual years indicates an upward trend. Since 2016 Vjesnik has had good position in the third quartile (Q3) within the subject area and its h-index for 2021 is 6. The CiteScore indicator also shows a positive trend. There are 332 papers from Vjesnik that are not indexed in Scopus but are cited by the papers covered by Scopus, and they had a total of 529 citations. Among the journals included in Scopus and WoSCC that cited Vjesnik at least twice, there is a noticeable number of foreign journals. In WoSCC, we find a total of 213 cited papers from Vjesnik, which were cited 271 times. The distribution of the number of citations by years also shows an upward trend. Research limitations. The analysis is limited on two bibliographic and citation databases. It did not include journals and publications in which the papers from Vjesnik were cited but which are not covered by Scopus and WoSCC. Originality/value. This paper reveals valuable results considering the number of citations, the data on the most cited papers, and generally about the status of the journal in Scopus and WoSCC databases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]