WEB OF SCIENCE is a database that includes a full range of disciplines and covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide and over 110,000 conference proceedings and provides a citation index. It is the product of Thomson Reuters, "the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals". An overview of its sources showed that the social sciences dealing with Southeast European topics were much better represented than the humanities or linguistics. The relevant periodicals can be divided into three groups:
Periodicals explicitly targetting the Southeast European area:
SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES
JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS
JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
BALKAN STUDIES
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE
BYZANTINOSLAVICA
Periodicals targetting Eastern Europe of which the Southeast can be seen as a part
SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL
SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES
OSTEUROPA
OSTERREICHISCHE OSTHEFTE
JAHRBUCHER FUR GESCHICHTE OSTEUROPAS
EAST EUROPEAN QUARTERLY
EASTERN EUROPEAN ECONOMICS
Periodicals specializing in parts of the Southeast European area
BULGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW-REVUE BULGARE D HISTOIRE
ANNALES-ANALI ZA ISTRSKE IN MEDITERANSKE STUDIJE-SERIES HISTORIA ET SOCIOLOGIA
BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES
JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES
REVUE ROUMAINE D HISTOIRE
ROMANIAN REVIEW
ZIVA ANTIKA
Many more important journals will have to be included into this database before we could deem its coverage satisfactory.
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