<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><bold>Background:</bold> Interdisciplinary scientific areas regularly develop unique methodologies, yet utilise the conventional communication modes to disseminate results of their researches.<bold>Objectives:</bold> This paper analyses whether a novel, interdisciplinary communication mode can be found in a gradually developing interdisciplinary journal.<bold>Methods/Approach:</bold> 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.<bold>Results:</bold> A number of indicators, related to papers or to their authors, are introduced and quantified.<bold>Conclusions:</bold> 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.</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.

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

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Background: Interdisciplinary scientific areas regularly develop unique methodologies, yet utilise the conventional communication modes to disseminate results...

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

Published Online: Oct 25, 2017

Page range: 101 - 114

Received: Nov 09, 2016

Accepted: Aug 05, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsrj-2017-0019

Keywords
interdisciplinary journal, communication, text mining

© 2017 Josip Stepanić et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Published Online: Oct 25, 2017

Page range: 101 - 114

Received: Nov 09, 2016

Accepted: Aug 05, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsrj-2017-0019

Keywordsinterdisciplinary journal, communication, text mining

© 2017 Josip Stepanić et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
interdisciplinary journal, communication, text mining