From the very beginning Lijecnicki vjesnik has been fulfilling the role of the official organ of the Croatian Medical Association publishing also original reports of the Croatian authors. To identify the international visibility of the Lijecnicki vjesnik, its coverage by international indexing and abstracting services has been analysed. Lijecnicki vjesnik has been covered by Index Medicus since 1957, and more then 4200 items are accessible through PubMed service. In the ISI Web of Science database 399 papers published in Lijecnicki Vjesnik have been cited so far. The international medical community can access the papers published by Lijecnicki vjesnik and there is no need to change its mission of the most important general medical journal in the Croatian language.