Scrinia Slavonica

About Scrinia Slavonica

Scrinia Slavonica — Journal Profile

Scrinia Slavonica is a Croatian scholarly history annual — in Croatian, the Godišnjak Podružnice za povijest Slavonije, Srijema i Baranje Hrvatskog instituta za povijest, the annual of the Slavonski Brod branch of the Croatian Institute of History for the history of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja. It carries print ISSN 1332-4853 and online ISSN 1848-9109. Published in Slavonski Brod since 2001, it exists to do one thing thoroughly: to establish the regional history of Slavonia — north-eastern Croatia between the Drava, the Sava and the Danube, with Srijem and the Croatian part of Baranja — as a serious frame for historical research in its own right. Its own statement of purpose, carried by the Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), opens its pages to in-depth research contributions and works of synthesis, to editions of relevant source texts, to theoretical and methodological writing that bears on concrete regional research, and — through translations and review articles — to a continuing Croatian conversation with the historiographies of Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the neighbours whose past centuries are entangled with Slavonia's own.

This profile is anchored to the Journals World record for Scrinia Slavonica (ISSNs 1332-4853 and 1848-9109). The stored record previously carried a numeric publisher value, 7267, in place of a publisher name, an H-index of 2, and a coverage span of 2021–2025 — a span that badly understates an annual whose volume numbering (volume 21 in 2021, volume 25 in 2025) runs back to a first volume in 2001, and which is corrected below. Where a field could not be verified from a source actually consulted, it is stated as not published, not publicly disclosed, or could not be verified, rather than filled in by inference.

Quick Facts

The Institute Behind the Annual

Scrinia Slavonica is not a commercial journal and not a university department's house organ in the casual sense; it is the flagship periodical of a branch of Croatia's national history institute. The Croatian Institute of History (Hrvatski institut za povijest), a public research institute headquartered in Zagreb, maintains a department in Slavonski Brod devoted to the history of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, and the annual is that department's public scholarly face. The Institute's own annual reporting treats the journal as a standing obligation: its report for 2021, for example, records that volume 21 was printed in December 2021 at 590 pages, and describes its contents and review procedure in operational detail. That institutional setting gives the journal three things that independent titles often lack — salaried editorial labour, a library exchange network (the same report records copies sent to 81 institutions with which the department exchanges journals), and permanence: an institute annual does not fold when an editor retires or a publisher's list is cut.

The title itself is a small programme. Scrinia evokes the archive chest — the repository of documents — and Slavonica fixes the territory. A reader who knows no Croatian can still decode the journal's intent from its masthead: the written record of Slavonia, kept and published year by year. The volume sequence confirms the steadiness behind the name. CEEOL's issue listing runs unbroken from the journal's early volumes through volume 25, and the Institute's reporting shows the annual arriving each December with the regularity of an institutional calendar — a rhythm that librarians, and historians planning where to place a Slavonian study, can set their watches by.

Scope: A Region as a Frame for History

The journal's statement of purpose, as carried by CEEOL, deserves close reading because every clause of it does work. The annual publishes contributions dealing with the history of north-eastern Croatia — the historical region of Slavonia in the modern geographical sense, with Srijem and the Croatian part of Baranja. It aims at establishing regional history of Slavonia as a meaningful frame for productive historical research. It is open to in-depth research contributions, to articles of synthesis or recapitulation, and to editions of relevant source texts in limited choices. Part of its space is dedicated to broader theoretical or methodological issues, primarily those applicable to concrete regional research projects. And through articles in translation and review articles it works to keep Croatian historians in continuous contact with historiographical processes and events in the neighbouring countries — Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina — because all of them were encompassed for past centuries by structures of mutual connection, so that their modern historiographies overlap in interest even where they do not correspond in results, and therefore need communication, exchange of knowledge, cooperation and well-founded dialogue.

Unpacked, that is four distinct publishing commitments in one annual. First, empirical regional history across all periods: medieval Slavonia and its urban elites, the Ottoman centuries on the Sava frontier, the Military Frontier and its forests and society, the nineteenth-century national movements, the wars and regime changes of the twentieth century — all attested in the journal's article records, from studies of Slavonian urban society to work on state authority and the suppression of revolutionary ideas in Slavonia and Srijem after the First World War. Second, synthesis: the region's history is to be periodically gathered and re-thought, not only accumulated. Third, sources: carefully edited texts that put primary material into other scholars' hands. Fourth, method and neighbourhood: theory tested against regional material, and deliberate translation and reviewing across the region's historiographical borders. A manuscript that serves any one of these four commitments, on Slavonian ground, is speaking the journal's language; a manuscript that merely happens to mention Croatia usually is not.

What a Volume Contains, and How It Is Reviewed

The Institute's report on volume 21 (2021) gives a precise anatomy of a modern volume, and this profile reports it as exactly that — a dated, verifiable snapshot rather than a timeless template. The volume contained 15 reviewed works: 12 original scientific papers, 1 review (survey) scientific paper and 2 professional papers, alongside 1 bibliography, 3 news items and 10 reviews and notices of books and conferences, across 590 printed pages. Every reviewed paper had two reviews, made in a double-blind review procedure. Those figures describe a substantial annual doing the full work of a field organ: research articles at its core, the survey and professional genres that Croatian scholarly publishing formally distinguishes, and the bibliographical and reviewing apparatus that keeps a regional field aware of itself. Later volumes maintain the pattern of a thick annual gathered around research contributions with reviews and notices behind them, as CEEOL's listings for volumes through number 25 show.

The editorial structure behind the volume is likewise documented in that report's imprint summary. Editor-in-chief and responsible editor: Stanko Andrić. Secretary of the editorial office: Marijan Šabić. The editorial board named Miroslav Akmadža, Marija Karbić, Suzana Leček, Robert Skenderović, Milan Vrbanus and Dinko Župan. The wider editorial council reached across the region's scholarship — members in Slavonski Brod, Zagreb, Osijek and Karlovac alongside colleagues in Tübingen, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Vienna, Budapest, Pécs and Bielsko-Biała — a geography that enacts the journal's stated commitment to dialogue with Hungarian, Serbian, Bosnian and wider European historiography. Editorial boards and councils change between volumes, and authors should take the imprint of the most recent volume on Hrčak as current; but the structure — a Slavonski Brod editorial core, a national board, an international council — is the journal's settled form.

Metrics: A Regional Annual in the Databases

OpenAlex, resolved first through the ISSN endpoint as this profile's method requires, treats the journal's two ISSNs as one source: S4210237458, with ISSN-L 1332-4853, publication years 2001–2025, 217 works and 25 citations, an h-index of 2 and a two-year mean citedness of 0.125. Its topic groupings are a tidy confirmation of the scope statement — Central European national history accounts for the largest grouping, followed by Balkans history, politics and society, with smaller groupings for the world wars, biographical and historical analysis, and historical economic and social studies. The stored Journals World record's H-index of 2 agrees with the OpenAlex figure, which is reassuring as far as it goes; its stored coverage span of 2021–2025, however, reflects only the most recent database window and is corrected by the volume record set out above — the journal has appeared since 2001. No Journal Impact Factor for the title was verified from a source consulted, and none is claimed: this is a humanities annual whose readership is reached through libraries, exchange copies, Hrčak and CEEOL rather than through the citation economy that impact factors measure, and whose citation counts — 25 in OpenAlex across a quarter-century — say more about the citing habits of regional historiography, much of which is published in books and in Croatian, than about the quality of what the annual prints. The meaningful quality signals here are institutional and procedural: a national institute's imprint, two double-blind reviews per paper, a quarter-century of unbroken volumes and presence in the field's own indexes.

Indexing and Access: Hrčak, CEEOL, EBSCO and ERIH-PLUS

The Institute's reporting lists where the journal is indexed and found, and the list is specific. Papers published in Scrinia Slavonica are indexed and accessible in Historical Abstracts and in Historical Abstracts with Full Text, both through EBSCO — the standard discovery layer for historians internationally. The journal is present in CEEOL, the Central and Eastern European Online Library, which carries its statement of purpose, its publisher record (Hrvatski institut za povijest), its print ISSN and its issue run. Its full contents are placed on Hrčak, the Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals maintained by the University Computing Centre in Zagreb — the Institute's report states this directly for volume 21, and Hrčak's article records for the journal, with their Croatian full texts, English summaries and DOIs under the 10.22586/ss prefix, are the working open route to the journal for any reader worldwide. In June 2017, the report adds, the journal was also entered on the ERIH-PLUS index, the European reference index for the humanities and social sciences. A DOAJ listing for the title could not be verified from the sources consulted for this profile, and no such listing is claimed; the journal's open presence runs through Hrčak rather than through the open-access directory system.

For the practical reader, that arrangement is better than it may sound. Hrčak holds the volumes in a stable national repository with per-article pages, so a citation to a Scrinia Slavonica article resolves to a readable text without a subscription wall intervening; CEEOL serves the library market that subscribes to Central and Eastern European collections; and Historical Abstracts puts the journal's contents in front of historians who would never browse a Croatian portal. The exchange network — 81 partner institutions receiving copies, per the Institute's report — quietly does the same work in print. A regional annual is sometimes imagined to be invisible beyond its region; Scrinia Slavonica's distribution machinery is a considered answer to exactly that risk.

Fees and Article Charges

No article processing charge, page charge or submission fee for this journal is published in the Institute's reports, the journal's CEEOL record or the other sources consulted for this profile, and the charge position is therefore recorded as not published in those sources — in plain terms, could not be verified as a stated policy either way. The journal is financed as an institute publication, which in the Croatian public-institute system normally means publication costs are carried by the institution rather than billed to authors, and nothing in the material consulted suggests any author-side payment; but any author for whom a charge would be a deciding factor should confirm with the editorial office in Slavonski Brod before submitting. No submission portal fee, review fee or similar charge is mentioned anywhere in the sources read for this profile.

How to Submit

Submission is to the journal's editorial office at the Croatian Institute of History's department in Slavonski Brod, whose imprint details — editor-in-chief, secretary and boards — are printed in each volume and reproduced on Hrčak. The journal publishes original scientific papers, survey (review) papers and professional papers — the categories are formal in Croatian scholarly publishing and an author should be ready to say which category a manuscript is offered as — together with source editions, bibliographies, news and book reviews by arrangement. Contributions are chiefly in Croatian; scholars writing from outside Croatia who work on Slavonian, Srijem or Baranja history, or on the wider frontier and Danubian world that the journal treats as its neighbourhood, should enquire with the editorial office about language and translation arrangements before preparing a full manuscript, since the journal's own practice of publishing translations of neighbouring historiography shows the door is genuinely open to cross-border work. Every offered research paper enters the journal's double-blind procedure with two reviewers, per the Institute's report. Because the journal is an annual with a December production rhythm, timing enquiries matter: a manuscript accepted after a volume has closed waits for the next year's, and the editorial secretary is the right first contact for the current volume's calendar. Manuscripts should be prepared to the journal's instructions for contributors as printed in recent volumes and on Hrčak, with summaries suitable for the English summary practice visible in its article records.

Who Should Consider This Journal — and Who Should Not

The ideal author is a historian with Slavonian material or a Slavonian question: archival work on the region's towns, villages, frontiers, churches, forests, armies, parties or families, in any century from the medieval kingdom to the post-1991 decades, gains from a venue whose reviewers know the region's archives and literatures personally. The annual is equally well shaped for the scholar of Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina or the Habsburg and Ottoman borderlands whose work touches Slavonia and who values the journal's deliberate cross-border conversation — its council seats and translation practice are an open invitation. Source editors will find one of the few regional annuals that reserves real space for edited texts. The poor fits are work with no Slavonian, Srijem, Baranja or connected-regional bearing, however good; work that needs a quarterly's speed rather than an annual's December rhythm; and work whose author is measuring venues chiefly by citation metrics, where this title's numbers — honestly reported above — will not compete with generalist journals. What the annual offers instead is the thing regional historiography actually runs on: expert reviewers, a permanent institutional home, an indexed and openly readable record, and twenty-five volumes of predecessors that give a new article its context and its first readers.

Similar Journals in the Journals World Directory

The closest directory neighbour is Review of Croatian History, the Croatian Institute of History's English-language journal — the same institute's outward-facing title, useful to readers who want Croatian historiography in English rather than in Croatian with English summaries. Beyond it, the directory's Central European history titles, and general history annuals of neighbouring countries, form the natural reading circle: the same authors who publish in Scrinia Slavonica read the Hungarian, Serbian and Bosnian periodicals its council connects it to. Within this directory's own records, the comparison to keep in mind is Slavonica — a different, British-published journal of Slavonic studies whose near-identical name causes real confusion in catalogues; the two titles share neither publisher, ISSN nor country, and citations should always be checked against the ISSNs given here (1332-4853 and 1848-9109).

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the journal publish about? The history of Slavonia, Srijem and the Croatian part of Baranja — north-eastern Croatia — across all periods, plus source editions, synthesis, method applicable to regional research, and translated and review coverage of Hungarian, Serbian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian historiography, per its statement of purpose on CEEOL.

Who publishes it and since when? The Croatian Institute of History (Hrvatski institut za povijest), through its Slavonski Brod department for the history of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja. The annual began in 2001; volume 21 appeared in 2021 and volume 25 in 2025.

What are its ISSNs? Print ISSN 1332-4853 and online ISSN 1848-9109, both carried on its OpenAlex source record (S4210237458), with 1332-4853 confirmed as the print ISSN by CEEOL.

Is it peer-reviewed? Yes. The Institute's report on volume 21 states that every reviewed paper received two reviews in a double-blind procedure; that volume carried 12 original scientific papers, 1 survey paper and 2 professional papers among its 15 reviewed works.

Where can I read it? In full on Hrčak, the Croatian journals portal; through CEEOL in subscribing libraries; and its contents are indexed in Historical Abstracts and Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO). It joined ERIH-PLUS in June 2017.

Does it charge authors? No charge is published in any source consulted, so the position is recorded as not published in those sources; the journal is financed as a publication of a public research institute.

Sources and Verification Note

This profile was built from the journal's statement of purpose and publisher record on CEEOL, the Croatian Institute of History's annual report material on volume 21 (2021) — contents, double-blind review practice, editorial imprint and indexing list — OpenAlex source S4210237458 resolved through the ISSN endpoints for both ISSNs, Hrčak article records showing the journal's DOI prefix and summary practice, and the Journals World stored record (ISSNs 1848-9109 and 1332-4853; stored H-index 2, in agreement with OpenAlex; stored coverage 2021–2025, corrected above against the 2001 first volume). A DOAJ listing could not be verified and none is claimed. Twin checking against the Journals World database by both ISSN forms, by title words and by slug variants found no second record carrying this journal's ISSNs — the near-name title Slavonica is a different journal with different ISSNs — so this post is the directory's single record for the title.