[2][3] The periodical is referenced in WOS, ESCI, SCOPUS, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS, IBZ Online, Religious and Theological Abstracts.

[4] The foundation of the journal was financially encouraged by archbishops Juraj Posilović and Antun Bauer, who established separate funds for its financing.

During the Interwar period bishops Ivan Šarić, Antun Akšamović and Josip Marušić were actively aiding publishing of the journal, which was widely distributed through the archdioceses of Zagreb, Ljubljana, Đakovo and Split, as well all the dioceses (from Senj to Subotica) of the state.

[5] Smotra was, along with the Glas Koncila, important promotor of the Second Vatican Council at the scientific and theologically-ecclesiastical scale.

To take scientific papers by Croatian theologians and philosophers beyond the Croatian-speaking area, the professors of the Catholic Faculty of Theology have been, since the early 2000s, striving to publish a part of this work in foreign languages.