Case Study in Interdisciplinary Scientific Communication: A Decade of the INDECS Journal

Josip Stepanic (), Zoroja Jovana () and Šimičević Vanja ()
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Zoroja Jovana: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Šimičević Vanja: Center for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Business Systems Research, 2017, vol. 8, issue 2, 101-114

Abstract: Background: Interdisciplinary scientific areas regularly develop unique methodologies, yet utilise the conventional communication modes to disseminate results of their researches.Objectives: This paper analyses whether a novel, interdisciplinary communication mode can be found in a gradually developing interdisciplinary journal.Methods/Approach: The content of the journal was categorised based on the characteristics attributed to the published papers. Statistical tests were performed to check for the overlapping categories.Results: A number of indicators, related to papers or to their authors, are introduced and quantified.Conclusions: Methodology utilised and data collected serve, on the one hand, as a referent set for treating the content of other interdisciplinary or disciplinary scientific journals, and, on the other hand, as a set for comparison and extraction of universalities or specificities of the journals. Fluctuations accompanying a gradual rise of the considered journal content prevent a definite answer to the question whether there are some emerging interdisciplinary communication novelties.

Keywords: interdisciplinary journal; communication; text mining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/bsrj-2017-0019

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