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

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

Open Access
|Oct 2017

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.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsrj-2017-0019 | Journal eISSN: 1847-9375 | Journal ISSN: 1847-8344
Language: English
Page range: 101 - 114
Submitted on: Nov 9, 2016
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Accepted on: Aug 5, 2017
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Published on: Oct 25, 2017
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2017 Josip Stepanić, Jovana Zoroja, Vanja Šimičević, published by IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy
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