An Analysis of Scientific Publications from Serbia: The Case of Computer Science

Introduction In Serbia, like in other countries all over the world, career opportunities in computing are growing faster than most of the other professions. This trend should be in accordance with the growth of the number of study programs and consequently the number of teaching staff. The most important researchers' and university teaching staff's promotion criteria, according to the regulations in Serbia, are the papers published in journals from the JCR list, which is, for the area of computing, reduced to the SCIe list. The number of such papers is also relevant for projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. In this paper, we present an analysis of the references of Serbian researchers retrieved from the Web of Science. Using the bibliometric indicators from the Web of Science, we also examine the distribution of such references across WoS categories that belong to the broader area of computing. We show the distribution of such publications over the years, cities and universities and identify the relations with global trends in Serbian science.