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Medijske Studije

Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb · Croatia · Est. 2010

ISSN1847-9758eISSN1848-5030
SJR Q4WOS ESCIScopus / SJRDOAJOpen Access
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field
Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.
Q4
SJR · Scopus
Bottom 25%
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.107
H-Indexi
11
SNIPi
0.201
Total Worksi
190
Total Citationsi
609
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.53
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Medijske studije (Media Studies) is an interdisciplinary journal published by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb. The journal provides an international forum for the presentation of research and advancement of discourse concerning media, communications, journalism, and public relations, within each field’s cultural, historical, political and/or economic contexts. It welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Journal is published every year in June and December. The articles should not be published before (neither partially nor completely), nor currently be considered for publication by any other journal or book, nor should the submissions be a translation of previously published articles. All manuscripts shall undergo a rigorous international, double-blind peer review. Call for paper is permanently open, only special thematic issues will have special calls. Medijske studije (Media Studies) does not levy any charges to an author to process or publish a paper. This includes article processing charges (APCs), submission charges, page charges, color charges or any instance where money is required to complete the publication process. There are no submission charges to an author and no publication charges to an author. Articles published in Media Studies are indexed in: Emerging Sources Citation Index of the Web of Science Core Collection Scopus (beginning with volume 5, issue 9, June 2014) ProQuest - Social Science Database and Social Science Premium Collection ERIH PLUS and are available in the open access data bases Hrčak – The Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia and DOAJ – the Directory of Open Access Journals. Since 2013 journal Medijske studije has been published in cooperation with the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia. NEW SUBMISSIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH THE OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEM. https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/medijs

General Information

Country / RegionCroatia
Primary LanguageEnglish, Croatian
1st Year Published2010
Frequency2
StatusActive (last: 2025)
Total Publications190
Publisher OrgFaculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
OA Since2009
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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind
OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

8/11 · 73%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1847-9758 / 1848-5030
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus, DOAJ
Peer review process documented?
Double-blind
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
No
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
DOAJ verified
Primary language documented?
English, Croatian

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
18
192
2019
14
65
2020
12
48
2021
13
32
2022
12
27
2023
14
12
2024
16
15
2025
8
0
2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

CommunicationQ4
Computer Science ApplicationsQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Communication

Scopus Categories

Computer Science ApplicationsCommunication

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Social Media and PoliticsMedia Studies and CommunicationMisinformation and Its ImpactsChild Development and Digital TechnologyDigital literacy in educationImpact of Technology on AdolescentsHate Speech and Cyberbullying DetectionBalkan and Eastern European StudiesEducational Challenges and InnovationsDigital Marketing and Social Media

Frequently asked questions about Medijske Studije

Is Medijske Studije a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Medijske Studije: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Medijske Studije?

Medijske Studije is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.53.

Is Medijske Studije indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Medijske Studije is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Medijske Studije?

Medijske studije (Media Studies) is an interdisciplinary journal published by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb. The journal provides an international forum for the presentation of research and advancement of discourse concerning media, communications, journalism, and public relations, within each field’s cultural, historical, political and/or economic contexts. It welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Journal is published every year in June and December. The articles should not be published b

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref