ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the procedures that were used for choosing journals that are monodisciplinary or interdisciplinary. It discusses four journals: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (AEE); Global Environmental Change (GEC); Plant Science (PS); and Resource and Energy Economics (REE). These four journals were originally chosen by looking at the citation behaviour statistics that Elsevier compiles and publishes in Scopus. GEC is the more varied of the two interdisciplinary journals, and therefore the most dissimilar to PS, on the evidence so far considered, and AEE is in the area between REE and GEC. While AEE aims to bridge scientific disciplines within the natural sciences, GEC has the goal of spanning the social and natural sciences. An important point to note is that the BEE4 corpus contains all the research articles for the ten-year period, 2001–2010, but the BEE11 corpus contains all the articles in a 20-year period for one of the journals: GEC.
