Publishing interdisciplinary research – a perspective from the Croatian Medical Journal

Like Archimedes who demanded a place to stand so that he could move the Earth, scientific journals also need a firm point to stand on. We use this example because it stresses the importance of determining the journal’s specific research field by editorial policies. One of the basic strategies for medical journals is to define their scope, which helps them to target specific readership, attract authors, and select reliable reviewers. Simply put, it governs editorial policy. The Croatian Medical Journal is a general medical journal and although it might seem at first that lacking a specific field is mainly a weakness (1), we will try to provide arguments that it does not necessarily have to be so.