The Science at Croatian Universities: a Gloomy View through SCIsearch and MEDLINE*

Aim. Comparison of scientific articles published during the last 10 years by scientists working at the universities of Zagreb, Rijeka, Osijek and Split (Croatia), Ulm (Germany) and Graz (Austria). Method. Analysis of the numbers of papers ob­ tained by searching the SCIsearch database of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and MEDLINE. Results. The universities of Osijek, Rijeka and Split, with only 0.42, 0.55 and 0.75 published papers per scientist over a 10-year period respec­ tively, were found to have the lowest scientific output. Although the 1.65 papers published by an average scientist of the University of Zagreb were a significantly higher output compared with the above regional universities, they were still consid­ erably below the production of the University of Ulm (6.6 papers per scientist) and that of Graz (2 papers per scientist). The comparison of the num­ ber of papers per 1,000 students gave similar results.. UDK 001.8:378 Prispjelo: 10. lipnja 1995.