ANTHROPOLOGY PERIODICALS IN SERBIA (2000-2010)

Abstract

A review of the Serbian anthropology periodicals of the first decade of 21st century found out that the number of journals more than doubled by the end of the decade. The increase in the number of magazines and issues of the magazines published over a year has been achieved by the renewal of the Ethnoanthropological Issues ("Etnoantropološki problemi") journal and emergence of Anthropology ("Antropologija") journal issued by the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Beside the total number of journals, the number of issues per year has grown from 2 to 12, while the number of scientific articles in the magazines has grown from 30 to over 100. This quantitative change completely debunks the malicious or uninformed stereotype about a "decline" of humanistic and social sciences. On the contrary, the manifold increase of the results of scientific work shows that the quantification system has brought initial results, but also that the results will be impaired if the vassal idolatry of the journals with questionable scientific competence in the field of national and humanistic sciences, yet on citation indexes (SSCI and AHCI), continues. Instead of the depraved quantophrenia embodied in the citation indexes, it would be better to build necessary quality indicators which could act as a corrective factor, using quantitative measurements which have brought certain results.