Some personal reflections on 11 years of JISIB editorial notes and production

Abstract

For now, this is the last issue of JISIB. The reason is that funding for Open-Source journals through NOS-HS has been halted for all journals ending in 2022. JISIB had financing through 2021. There may be a revival of Open-Source initiatives and then it’s possible to continue if we can obtain the funds, but for now JISIB will be put on pause.

JISIB came out regularly between 2011-2022, so for 11 years. For eight of these years the journal received funding from VR and NOS-HS. NOS-HS is the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It’s a cooperation between the research councils in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden responsible for research within the Humanities and Social Sciences. We are very grateful for continuous support received from NOS-HS. It has been instrumental for the advancement of Open-Source Publishing in Sweden.

The journal was started at a time when the interest for competitive intelligence (CI) was declining, during the first decade of the 21st century. Bibliometric analysis shows that JISIB has been the primary outlet for scientific articles on CI for the past decade. Most articles have been in the border between CI and business intelligence, or more specifically between software and web-solutions, web-intelligence, and social media intelligence. Some articles have been in market intelligence and other closely related areas. In France there has been a continuous interest for “intelligence economique” and in Sweden “omvärldsanalys”. We have also seen new areas emerge and some areas increase in popularity, like collective intelligence, foresight and insight (competitive and market insight). However, the core of the content is much the same despite this relabeling. It’s still about processes for providing decision makers with need-to-know information.