  The enlarged coverage of the international publication and citation databases
Web of Science and Scopus towards local media in social sciences was a welcome
response to an increased usage of these databases in evaluation and funding
systems. The mostly international journals available earlier were the basis for
the development of current standard bibliometric indicators. The same
indicators may no longer measure exactly the same concepts when applied to
newly introduced or extended media categories, with possibly different
characteristics than those of international journals. This paper investigates
differences between media with and without international dimension in
publication data at team and author level. The findings relate the
international publication categories to research quality, important for
validation of their usage in evaluation or funding models that aim to stimulate
quality.
