Humanitarian Journals in the System of Intercultural Scientific Communications: Biblio­metric Analysis and its Interpretation

A scientific journal is an important part of scientific communications that, through text messa­ges, reveal meanings and their understanding objectively existing in modern culture. Scientific journals accumulate the results of new research and provide an opportunity for studies, interpretation and discussion around it, which contributes to the promotion and development of humanitarian science. In general, the texts published in a journal not only carry the content, but also have a certain categorical design, which creates some ways to understand and unite a circle of associates around the journal. Its communicative role is largely determined by its editorial policy, requirements to authors and reviewers, ethical principles, openness, editors’ authority, popula­rity in the scientific community, and place in the socio-cultural space.

An important role in fixing these processes, their generalization, structuring and explication of their meanings have modern databases, which collect information about scientific journals and are engaged in their processing and identification of various quantitative relationships, dependencies, characteristics and indicators. Usually, they are created on the platforms of well-known European and American publishers: Springer, Elsevier, Sage, Thomson Reuters, Wiley, etc.

Thereby, this forms a zone of interaction, with complex intercultural scientific communications arising, and with its parties represented by both people (experts/specialists) and scientific texts. The article attempts to use the frontier thesis to understand the basis of the methodology of intercultural communication analysis, which is formed in the process of expert evaluation of a scientific text. The frontier is used in the paradigm of postnonclassical science as a process of constructing the mental space arising in the images of the experts’ virtual representation of the text they are reading and trying to understand — its meaning, the meaning of its words, the main idea, the parts that make up the text — and to form an opinion about its scientific parameters in the context of a variety of linguistic and cultural matrices.

In this study, the authors set out the task of identifying experts to develop a methodology of discursive practices for library and information scientists-specia­lists on harmonization of the conceptual apparatus used in Russia and abroad. A comparative analysis confirms the hypothesis that the issue of harmonization of the conceptual apparatus in the field of library and information sciences is a problem whose solution is not solely restricted by scientists representing this field. Only the interdisciplinary format of scientific communications can provide means for finding common approaches and forming a concep­tual apparatus in the professional scientific sphere that will correspond to the modern vision of the humanities development.

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