Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews publishes reviews of specialist work advancing knowledge of interdisciplinarity.

Reviews are scholarly articles composed in one of the journal’s formats. To be considered for publication, all reviews must explicitly articulate the interdisciplinary character of the subject matter. In keeping with the word of the founding editor, interdisciplinary means integrative. Integration is the process through which the single components of a multidisciplinary project are blended to enable novel and more comprehensive understanding of the project’s output.

The difference between inter- and multi-disciplinarity is not a statement of value. Whilst multidisciplinary activity is valuable in its own terms, since its foundation in 1976 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews has offered a forum for pursuing integrative work scientifically. We publish theory and practice-driven articles that advance understanding of the foundations, methods, teaching and learning, governance and policy, of interdisciplinary integration. The journal does not publish work that takes interdisciplinary findings for granted and fails to articulate their integrative connotation, critically and reflectively.

The overarching aim of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is to advance the study of interdisciplinarity by publishing outstanding scholarship in the following two main complementary areas:

• Interdisciplinary research and pedagogy. We invite submissions that show observational and reflective cases of interdisciplinary inquiry across the sciences, arts and humanities. Articles must offer evidence of how at least two disciplinary strands of research are joined to generate new knowledge of the relevant case through integration; multidisciplinary reviews will not be considered for publication. In the same spirit, the journal publishes reviews of innovative practices of interdisciplinary teaching and learning, provided that they offer an explicit articulation of what makes those practices integrative.

• Theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews provides a forum for the publication of work that improves knowledge of interdisciplinarity as a distinctive mode of inquiry. Interdisciplinary integration is a form of expertise that can be codified, practiced, researched, taught, and theorised about in and across disciplinary boundaries. Whilst its scope is virtually boundless, the journal aims at publishing original contributions that focus on developing interdisciplinary studies, conceptually and empirically. 

The journal takes quality in content and style to be the sole criterion for publication and features multiple formats. Please head to Submission Guidelines for specific information on formats for submission.

Learn more about our editorial direction: Project 50: Back to Future Affirmative