Serbian Citation Index

{{Infobox bibliographic database

| title = SCIndeks - Serbian Citation Index

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| producer = Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science

| country = Serbia

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| languages = Serbian, English

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| cost = Free

| disciplines = Science, social science, arts, humanities

| depth = Citation indexing, author, topic title, subject keywords, abstract, periodical title, author's address, publication year, full text

| formats = Academic journal articles

| temporal = 1991 to present

| geospatial = Serbia

| number = 80,000 + indexed articles and more than one million references

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| web = {{URL|1=http://scindeks.ceon.rs/}}

| titles = {{URL|1=http://scindeks.ceon.rs/Journals.aspx}}

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Serbian Citation Index ({{langx|sr|Srpski citatni indeks}}; SCIndeks) is a combination of an online multidisciplinary bibliographic database, a national citation index, an Open Access full-text journal repository and an electronic publishing platform.{{Cite conference| volume = 2| pages = 710–711| last = Šipka| first = Pero| title = The Serbian Citation Index: Context and content| book-title = Proceedings of ISSI 2005 - the 10 th International Conference of the Information Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Stockholm, Sweden, July 24–28, 2005| location = Stockholm| access-date = 2016-08-08| date = 2005| url = https://www.ceon.rs/images/pdf/Sipka_SCIndeks_proceedings.pdf}} It is produced and maintained by the Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES), based in Belgrade, Serbia. In July 2017, it indexed 230 Serbian scholarly journals in all areas of science and contained more than 80,000 bibliographic records and more than one million bibliographic references.

SCIndeks operates as a DOI registration agency and an OAI-PMH data provider.{{Cite web| title = Home page| work = SCIndeks| access-date = 2017-07-31| url = http://scindeks.ceon.rs}} It is also an OpenAIRE data provider.{{Cite web| title = Data providers: SCIndeks - Serbian Citation Index| work = OpenAIRE| access-date = 2017-08-01| url = https://www.openaire.eu/search/dataprovider?datasourceId=openaire____::63bd442fa8afe33f788fc510cfcf08d4| archive-date = 2017-08-01| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170801093154/https://www.openaire.eu/search/dataprovider?datasourceId=openaire____::63bd442fa8afe33f788fc510cfcf08d4| url-status = dead}} Serbian Citation Index is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).{{Cite web| title = SCIndeks: The Serbian Citation Index| work = Committee on Publication Ethics: COPE| access-date = 2017-08-03| url = https://publicationethics.org/members/scindeks-serbian-citation-index}}

Features

While the content of SCIndeks is freely available to users, the publishers of the indexed journals subscribe to one of four service packages that provide various levels of content indexing and quality control: from basic bibliographic data (no full text) to full-text availability, DOI assignment, bibliometric evaluation, journal management support and plagiarism detection.{{Cite web| title = Funkcionalnosti/Paketi| work = SCIndeks: Srpski citatni indeks| access-date = 2017-07-31| date = 2015| url = http://scindeks-repozitorijum.ceon.rs/Paketi.aspx}}

The core of SCIndeks is a searchable bibliographic database that also contains citation information. It relies on a full text repository (SCIndeks Repository). The repository and journal profiles are maintained through the Editor Service, a back-end platform for journal editors. Publishers may also subscribe to SCIndeks Assistant,{{Cite conference| publisher = Fakultet informacionih tehnologija| pages = 95–98|editor1= Đuro Kutlača | last1 = Stanić| first1 = Nikola| last2 = Sotirović| first2 = Miša| title = Sistem elektronskog uređivanja domaćih časopisa referisanih u Srpskom citatnom indeksu| book-title = Naučnostručni skup Sistem naučnih, tehnoloških i poslovnih informacija u Srbiji - SNTPI| location = Beograd| date = 2009 |url = https://www.ceon.rs/images/pdf/stanic_sotirovic.pdf }} a journal management system based on Open Journal Systems and enriched with a number of in-house developed services, tools and protocols that enable the normalization of names, affiliations and funding information; automated parsing and formatting of references; matching of references and citations; keywords assignment, etc. SCIndeks Assistant also enables plagiarism detection through CrossRef Similarity Check, using iThenticate.{{Cite web| title = About SCIndeks: Content and features| work = SCIndeks: Serbian Citation Index| access-date = 2017-07-31| url = http://scindeks.ceon.rs/static/about.aspx?url=content.htm}}; {{Cite web| title = About SCIndeks: Quality control| work = SCIndeks: Serbian Citation Index| access-date = 2017-07-31| url = http://scindeks.ceon.rs/static/about.aspx?url=qualitycontrol.htm}}{{Cite conference| conference = Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008| last1 = Šipka| first1 = Pero| last2 = Kosanović| first2 = Biljana| title = The national citation index as a platform to achieve interoperability of a national journals repository| location = Southampton, United Kingdom| access-date = 2015-07-24| date = 2008| url = https://www.ceon.rs/images/pdf/the_national_citation_index_2008.pdf}}

Bibliometric data contained in SCindeks are used to generate cumulative annual reports on the performance of the indexed journals – Journal Bibliometric Report,{{Cite web| title = JBR – Journal Bibliometric Report| work = CEON/CEES - Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science| access-date = 2017-07-31| url = https://bic.ceon.rs}} which tracks more than 20 quantitative and qualitative indicators.{{Cite web| title = Bibliometric performance indicators| work = SCIndeks Help| access-date = 2017-07-31| url = http://scindeks.ceon.rs/help/en/indicators.htm| archive-date = 2017-08-01| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170801082632/http://scindeks.ceon.rs/help/en/indicators.htm| url-status = dead}}

SCindeks offers a number of functionalities to registered users, e.g. customized search and saved search alerts.{{Cite web| title = What is MySCIndeks?| work = SCIndeks Help| access-date = 2017-07-31| url = http://scindeks.ceon.rs/help/en/myscindeks.htm| archive-date = 2017-08-01| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170801085413/http://scindeks.ceon.rs/help/en/myscindeks.htm| url-status = dead}}

Background and history

The development of SCIndeks was preceded by two projects: SocioFakt Online (a citation database for social sciences, established in 2001) and SocioFakt Open Access (a fully searchable and harvestable full-text journal repository, established in 2004).{{Cite conference| publisher = Narodna biblioteka Srbije| isbn = 86-7035-146-3| pages = 35–41|editor1= Đuro Kutlača | last = Šipka| first = Pero| title = Integracija sistema naučnih informacija u nacionalnoj ravni: povezivanje citatnog indeksa s bazom tekućih projekata| book-title = Naučnostručni skup SNTPI '06 Sistem naučno-tehničkih i poslovnih informacija| location = Beograd| date = 2006| url = https://www.ceon.rs/images/pdf/Sipka_SNTPI_2006.pdf}}{{Cite web| title = About SocioFakt| work = SocioFakt| access-date = 2016-08-08| date = 2006-06-29| url = http://nainfo.nbs.bg.ac.yu/sfoa/osf.php?je=en| url-status = bot: unknown| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060629205711/http://nainfo.nbs.bg.ac.yu/sfoa/osf.php?je=en| archive-date = 2006-06-29}} Both databases were developed by the CEON/CEES. SCIndeks draws on both projects but it covers all areas of science.

From the outset, SCIndeks was used as the source of information for the evaluation of locally published journals,{{Cite conference| publisher = Department of Information Sciences. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb| isbn = 978-953-175-408-8| pages = 43–49| last1 = Popovic| first1 = Aleksandra| last2 = Antonic| first2 = Sanja| last3 = Stolic| first3 = Dragana| title = The Role of National Citation Index in the Evaluation of National Science| book-title = 3rd International Conference The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture) INFuture2011: “Information Sciences and e-Society| location = Zagreb| date = 2011 |url=http://infoz.ffzg.hr/bookstore/files/INFuture2011.pdf}} i.e. the Journal Bibliometric Report, a local counterpart of the Journal Citation Reports.

SCIndeks was originally funded by the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia, which means that indexing and bibliometric analyses were free for journals. Under this model, nearly 500 journals were covered and nearly 40% of papers were available as full text.{{Cite web| title = Časopisi| work = SCIndeks| access-date = 2016-02-08| date = 2015-02-07| url = https://scindeks.ceon.rs/Journals.aspx| url-status = bot: unknown| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150207221933/http://scindeks.ceon.rs/Journals.aspx| archive-date = 2015-02-07}} In 2015, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development ceased supporting SCIndeks. Consequently, SCIndeks changed the business model: it was no longer available free of charge to journal publishers interested in indexing and evaluation of their journals, while remaining freely available to readers.{{Cite web| last = CEON| title = SCIndeks promenio oblik, obim i način finansiranja: saopštenje CEON-a| work = Centar za evaluaciju u obrazovanju i nauci - CEON| access-date = 2017-01-07| date = 2015-03-05| url = https://www.ceon.rs/images/pdf/saopstenje_CEON-a.pdf| archive-date = 2018-05-20| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180520054832/https://www.ceon.rs/images/pdf/saopstenje_CEON-a.pdf| url-status = dead}}

In 2016-2017, SCIndeks was upgraded to enable ORCID integration and normalization of funder information. It was also made compatible with OpenAIRE.{{Cite conference| publisher = Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science| pages = 4| last = Šipka| first = Pero| title = Supporting SCIndeks Improvements through Alternative Funding Mechanism: CEON/CEES Project Execution Final Report| date = 2017-03-06 |url=https://www.ceon.rs/images/pdf/Alternative_Funding_Mechanism.pdf}}

Policy and Licensing Support Service was introduced in the Editor Service. It enables journals to define their editorial policies relying on a standardized template, which fully conforms to the requirements set by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in 2014.{{Cite web| last = Kosanović| first = Biljana| title = Open Access publishing in Serbia and Western Balkan Open Science| work = Working Group : OpenAIRE blog| access-date = 2017-08-01| url = https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=2168}}