Diamond Open Access in the quest for interdisciplinarity and excellence. Croatian

Abstract

"Being a small independent scholarly journal owned by 3 Croatian universities, the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) needs to compete with many other biomedical journals, mostly belonging to the big commercial publishers. With the 2016 impact factor of 1.619, the CMJ seems to fare very well in this competition, positioning itself in the second quartile of its group. The CMJ is currently 25 years old and has a solid reputation among biomedical researchers – one can speak about a success story in what was achieved"