The main goal of publication is to make the results of an investigation visible and accessible to as large an audience as possible. Thus a scientist contributes to the advance of science and to the advance of his/her carrier as well. The carrier of a scientist heavily depends on both quantity and quality of his/her publications. Although the quality is difficult to evaluate, the impact factor of the journal in which publication seems to be, in spite of some pitfalls, an adequate measure. Therefore, it is important to publish in journals covered by databases such as the Science Citation Index (SCI). Our Ministry of Science also relies on this scientometric parameter when evaluating the author’s impact; however, it does not value the publications in national journals, regardless their covering in other important databases such as PubMed/MEDLINE. Because of that, our authors hesitate to publish in such journals. Therefore, the submission rate of national journals is steadily decreasing, which makes these journals in peril to disappear from scientific publishing. Since some of these journals are of very long tradition, this would be a very unfortunate fate. Both our Ministry of science and editors should find the means how to attract the authors to publish quality science in national journals. This is the only way to include these journals in important databases, which should in due course raise the submission rate and consequently improve the impact of both the journals and their authors – the goal of each and every scientist and editor.

1. Kako biram časopis kome podnosim rukopis Ljiljana Vučković-Dekić Institut za onkologiju i radiologiju Srbije

2. Šta motiviše autore da publikuju? Napredak nauke (altruistički) Napredak sopstvene karijere (egoistički) Oba motiva podjednako legitimna!

3. Motivacija za publikovanje u međunarodnim časopisima Visibility Accessibility Indeksiranost u va žnim databazama SCI Impact factor

4. Motivacija za publikovanje u međunarodnim časopisima Ministarstvo nauke i zaštite sredine (MNTR) R51a = prvih 30% sa liste SCI = 8 p R51b = sledećih 20% sa liste SCI = 5 p R52 = ostalih 50% sa liste SCI = 3 p

5. (De)motivacija za publikovanje u domaćim časopisima Ministarstvo nauke i zaštite sredine (MNTR) R61 – (ne postoji za med. nauke) = 2 p R62 – svi domaći časopisi = 1,5 p

6. Indeksiranost u drugim važnim databazama PubMed/MEDLINE Ne uzima se u obzir! Izjednačavanje sa lokalnim časopisima koji se nigde ne indeksiraju

7. Snažan demotivacioni faktor!

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9. Da li su domaći časopisi jednakog kvaliteta? Шипка П. и сар. (2005). Извештај о библиометријској анализи и прелиминарној категоризацији домаћих часописа ( http :// www . ceon . org . yu / kategorizacija )

10. Kategorizacija domaćih biomedicinskih časopisa Vučković-Dekić Lj, Žižić-Borjanović S. Letter to the Editor, 2007 ( in press ) Kategorija (opadajuća skala) Broj časopisa (n) % 1 0 0 2 5 8 3 13 20.6 4 24 38.1 5 21 33.3 Ukupno 63 100

11. Časopisi referisani u bazi MEDLINE M ed Pregl kat. 2 Acta Chir Iugosl kat. 3 Srp Arh Celok Lek kat. 3 Vojnosanit Preg l kat. 3 Glas Srp Akad Nauka [Med] kat. 5

12. Biti ili ne biti u MEDLINE - značaj? Impakt 5 Naziv časopisa 2002 2003 2004 Kat. Archive of Oncology 0.134 0.246 0.314 2.3 Glas SANU 0.000 0.000 0.000 5

13. Šta da se radi? Publikovanje u domaćim časopisima Patriotizam? Neko će ipak pročitati? Nema jezičke barijere?

14. Šta da se radi? Publikovanje u domaćim časopisima Uprkos svemu Da!