ESNBU Timeline

2015

The first issue of ESNBU was published on 1 February 2015.

ESNBU became a signatory to the BOAI Open Access declaration.

ESNBU adopts the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s principles and guidelines.

2016

2 March 2016 - Indexed in CEEOL

2017

05 Feb 2017 - ORCiD PIDs adopted

07.02.2017 - Indexed in ERIHPlus

16.03.2017 - Evaluated by MIAR starting at 2.8

02.10.2017 - Indexed in MLA International Bibliography

2018

1.12.2018 - Signed an agreement for indexing with EBSCO; indexed in EBSCOHost and Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS)

21.09.2018 - Indexed in DOAJ

28.09.2018 - Web of Science - indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

ESNBU is included in the National Reference List of contemporary Bulgarian scientific publications with scientific review of the Bulgarian National Centre for Information and Documentation (NACID).

18.12.2018 - ORCiD ID becomes mandatory for corresponding authors.

29.12.2018 - ESNBU adopts an Open Data policy and encourages authors to provide their data as 'open' datasets.

Awarded 9.0 by MIAR (Evaluation Matrix for Analisis of Journals by the Center for Research in Information, Communication and Culture of the University of Barcelona, up from 2.8 the previous year.

ESNBU adopted CASRAI's CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), a high-level taxonomy including 14 roles that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific scholarly output. The roles describe each contributor's specific contribution to the scholarly output. Articles start featuring the Contributors' Roles in multiple-author submissions.

2019

25.01.2019 - Indexed in РИНЦ

26.03.2019 - Crossref Member; ESNBU starts assigning DOI numbers.

12.09.2019 - Indexed in ICI IndexCopernicus

07.10.2019 - Language and Linguistics papers start to be indexed in Brill Linguistic Bibliography

2020

06.01.2020 - ESNBU moves to APA7 from APA6

The Polish Ministry of Education, PBN (the System of Polish Scientific Bibliography) included ESNBU in their list of approved journals, and awards 20 points to authors from Poland if they publish with ESNBU.

The Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, operated jointly between The National Board of Scholarly Publishing (NPU) and Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills on behalf of The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, included ESNBU in their list of approved journals and places ESNBU at Level 1.

ESNBU starts embedding Crossmark both on the web site landing pages of the articles and on the PDF.

New Bulgarian University launches the NBU Academic Journals Portal - ESNBU is actively participating as consultants for the OJS PKP platform, advising other editorial boards on OA policies, develops a DOI allocation template, and is an avid promoter of OA and editorial integrity.

2021

19.01.2021 - ESNBU is awarded the DOAJ Seal.
Only around 10% of the journals indexed in DOAJ have met the rigorous quality criteria and have been awarded the Seal.

ESNBU scored 0.12 points in the field of Language and Linguistics.
The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) is the new, field-normalized measurement of journal citation impact introduced by Clarivate™ across all the databases in the Web of Science Core collection, incl. ESCI.

For a third year in a row the Polish Ministry of Education, PBN (System of Polish Scientific Bibliography) awards ESNBU 20 points.

2022

February, 2022 - ESNBU starts publishing an interactive Google map with the authors' affiliations updated with every issue.

Clarivate awards ESNBU 0.18 JCI score for 2021, up from 0.12 in 2020.

2023

Position Statement issued re: AI-assisted manuscripts and AI-generated text in manuscripts. ESNBU adopts COPE's Position Statement verbatim.

From Volume 9, Issue 1, ESNBU starts implementing and displaying ROR (The Research Organization Registry) persistent identifiers (PIDs) to provide even better metadata!

Clarivate awards ESNBU 0.19 JCI score for 2022, up from 0.18 in 2021. Q3 Category Quartile in Language & Linguistics in ESCI edition.

ESNBU's Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF) for 2022 is 0.2

2024

ESNBU is 10 years old!

ESNBU endorses Science Europe's Action Plan for Diamond Open Access

Clarivate awards ESNBU 0.31 JCI (Journal Citation Indicator) score for 2023, up from 0.19 in 2022.

Clarivate awards ESNBU 0.3 JIF (Journal Impact Factor) score for 2023, up from 0.2, and ESNBU is in the Q3 Category Quartile in Language & Linguistics in ESCI edition.