Instead of an Editorial: Some Statistics on First Five-Year Period of 

Publication of Southeastern European Medical Journal (SEEMEDJ), From 

2017-2022. 

 

Ines Drenjančević1, Marija Raguž1 

 

1 Faculty of Medicine Osijek, University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek, J. Huttlera 4, 31000 
Osijek, ines.drenjancevic@mefos.hr; maraguz@mefos.hr  

 

 

Southeastern European Medical Journal (SEEMEDJ), has been published by Faculty of 

Medicine Osijek, University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek, since 2017. At the moment we 

have published 6 full volumens; this issue is the first of two, of the seventh volume. As a 

brand new scientific journal we have undergone all phases of development, necessity for 

recongnition in the scientific community as a desirable destination for quality manuscripts.  

One of the aims of SEEMEDJ is to provide support for young researchers who are at the 

beggining of their scientific and professional carriers, such as PhD students.  Part of fullfiling 

that aim is that SEEMEDJ uses the Diamond Open Access model. This means that there are 

no author processing fees and no fees to access the published papers. There are no article 

submission charges. The free access to full published manuscripts is available on our web 

page as well as in HRCAK. 

In last five-year period, Southeastern European Medical Journal (SEEMEDJ) has been covered 

by following databases and archives: Indexing & Abstracting Services:  DOAJ, Google 

Scholar (individual articles), OAJI, Publons, Crossref, Dimensions. Journal Directories: 

SHERPA/RoMEO and Digital Preservation: Hrčak 

Following statistical data have been obtained from the SEEMEDJ archive. From 2017-2022, 

SEEMEDJ has published 105 scientific articles; 366 authors contributed to manuscripts, of 

which 6 % (22 authors) published 3 or more articles. Majority of our authors come from 

Croatia (Figure 1. Geographic origin of authors who have published in SEEMEDJ). However, 

we have authors from 9 countries and a number of different institutions. 

 

mailto:ines.drenjancevic@mefos.hr
mailto:maraguz@mefos.hr
https://hrcak.srce.hr/
https://oaji.net/journal-detail.html?number=10527
https://publons.com/journal/83357/southeastern-european-medical-journal/
http://www.crossref.org/
https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?search_mode=content&order=date&and_facet_source_title=jour.1359233
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
https://hrcak.srce.hr/casopis/473


 

Figure 1. 

The average number of views per article  is shown in Figure 2. The range is from 362 to 903 

views per issue). At the moment SEEMEDJ has only 6 WoS citation, 25 Scopus and 160 Google 

Scholar (no duplicates).  

Thus, our goals for future period are to increase visibility of the journal, to attract new 

authors from other countries and to increase quality of published work and subsequently 

increased citation and achieve indexation in other emintent indexation databases. 

 

 

Figure 2.  

 

 

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851,4444444

576,7142857

902,5

599,375
651,75

604,3333333

475,8
410,0588235

362,375

2017/1 2017/2 2018/1 2018/2 2019/1 2019/2 2020/1 2020/2 2021/1 2021/2

Average number of views per article



 

Figure 3.  

 

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