Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
Croatica
ISSN 1849-1111 · eISSN 2623-9280 · University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences · Croatia
Croatica: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 24 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Croatica is published by University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Central European Literary Studies, Linguistic research and analysis and Linguistics and Language Studies, together about 26.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Croatica is a journal with a long-standing tradition that publishes peer-reviewed research papers, discussions and reviews in the field of Croatian literature, language and culture. We publish texts of the so-called traditional philological profile; those that apply contemporary methodological approaches and methods; texts that are theoretical in scope and those that engage in empirical aspects. As one of the most prominent Croatian Studies journals, Croatica strives to promote a broad spectrum of topics, in this way testing the limits of national philology on all levels, and representing its entire time-span (from the Middle Ages to the current moment in history). All the while it pays particular attention to different intercultural contexts and interdisciplinarity. Croatica is interested in the relationship between the canon and so-called marginal events in national philology, in the issues regarding the curriculum of Croatian language and literature, and in the circumstances relating to teaching Croatian language and literature at home and abroad. We emphasize the international character of the journal: one of its fundamental aims is to publish texts by foreign philologists, both Croatian Studies scholars as well as all others that engage in Croatian Studies topics. We nurture our relationship with Croatian, that is, Slavic Studies departments and sections globally; this relationship is reflected in the international character of our editorial board. We focus on cooperation with researchers, theorists and practitioners in other fields who in their work contribute to Croatian Studies, and especially with those who strive to respond to the challenges of the contemporary moment (e. g. in the area of digitalization, archiving, informatization of research, improvement of the varieties of knowledge transfer). Articles are published in the language in which they are written, in any of the world languages and in all Slavic languages. We occasionally publish themed issues, based on calls for papers. Along with research papers, in the section Reviews we publish reviews of recent philological volumes, reports on recent conferences, in memoriam texts on philologists who passed away. We follow relevant Croatian Studies events: our particular focus is on the activities of the Department of Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, but we also follow other departments of Croatian Studies from Croatia and a
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 2, Norway 2, Netherlands 1, Czechia 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Central European Literary StudiesSocial Sciences13%
- Linguistic research and analysisArts and Humanities6.8%
- Linguistics and Language StudiesArts and Humanities6.6%
- Classical Studies and PhilologyArts and Humanities6.4%
- Poetry Analysis and CriticismArts and Humanities6.2%
- Libraries, Manuscripts, and BooksArts and Humanities5.1%
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationArts and Humanities4.9%
- Historical and Literary AnalysesArts and Humanities4.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | Q4 | 1111/1186 | 6th |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | Q4 | 661/692 | 4th |
| Language and Linguistics | Q4 | 1113/1137 | 2nd |
| Linguistics and Language | Q4 | 1197/1221 | 2nd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: EBSCO
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- h-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 215 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 24 | 24 | 1 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 | 7 |
| 2023 | 22 | 22 | 4 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 | 1 |
| 2021 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 4 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted6
- esejiUz znanstvene studije objavljujemo stručne radove, eseje, recenzije i prikaze novih filoloških izdanjaLength not stated
- in memoriamte priloge in memoriam, posvećene preminulim filolozimaLength not stated
- prikaziUz znanstvene studije objavljujemo stručne radove, eseje, recenzije i prikaze novih filoloških izdanjaLength not stated
- recenzijeUz znanstvene studije objavljujemo stručne radove, eseje, recenzije i prikaze novih filoloških izdanjaLength not stated
- stručni radovisamo znanstveni i stručni radoviLength not stated
- znanstveni radovisamo znanstveni i stručni radoviLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Plagiarism
- License & copyright Copyright
Current issue published under CC BY 4.0; authors retain copyright without restrictions. Model summary
The current issue of Croatica is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. The authors retain the copyright of their papers without restrictions.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access – Copyright and Licensing
Otvoreni pristup; sadržaj besplatno dostupan; licenca Creative Commons Imenovanje 4.0 međunarodna; autori zadržavaju autorska prava bez ograničenja. Model summary
Articles in the Croatica journal are published via open access, which means they are freely available online right after publication, in accordance with the publishing policies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb. Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article and to distribute it under the Creative Co…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Authors are fully responsible for plagiarism and auto-plagiarism, whether discovered during review or after publication. Model summary
Authors are fully responsible for any instance of plagiarism and auto-plagiarism in their manuscripts, no matter whether it is discovered during the review process (see Code of Ethics and Review Procedure) or after the manuscript’s publication in the journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Country or region
- Croatia
- Language
- Russian, Croatian, Serbian, English, Slovenian
- ISSN
- 1849-1111
- Electronic ISSN
- 2623-9280
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Croatica
How long does peer review take at Croatica?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Croatica based?
Of the 6 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Poland (2), Norway (2) and Netherlands (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Croatica?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Croatica is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Croatica open access, and what is the APC?
Croatica is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .