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Interdisciplinarity as a challenge

Since its early beginnings, nearly a quarter of a century ago, the strategy of Innovation the European Journal of Social Science Research has been to publish both open issues and special issues dedicated to a single topic. Whilst open issues have addressed the general social science community, special issues have mostly targeted specific scientific communities. In both cases, interdisciplinarity has been the core concern of the editorial team: special issues have included contributions from different disciplines, or even received contributions from interdisciplinary teams; similarly, contributions to open issues have also been selected according to these criteria, provided positive reviews were made by the referees. Some hold the view that due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) this strategy might be outdated: nowadays contributions can be ordered online individually, so that everybody can create their own ‘‘issue’’; one could even bring together contributions from a variety of journals. Whilst this argument has some validity, we still hold that special issues make sense and this for two reasons: