Developing Cross-Cutting Article Categories for Emerging Open-Access Journals: A Mixed Qual-Computational Approach

Milos Drdla

doi:10.63029/nxna2f46

Authors

Milos Drdla Mendel University in Brno Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63029/nxna2f46

Keywords:

Open access, Open Journal Systems (OJS), journal taxonomy, article categories, discoverability, qualitative content analysis, metadata, Gioia methodology, topic modeling, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)

Abstract

Emerging open-access journals must signal scope clearly while improving discoverability in algorithmically mediated search and indexing environments. This study proposes a replicable, evidence-based protocol for deriving cross-cutting article categories from a journal’s own corpus and operationalizing them in Open Journal Systems (OJS). Using Management Research Quarterly (MRQ) as an instrumental case, we combine Gioia-style first- and second-order coding with thematic analysis to induce candidate categories and inclusion/exclusion rules. We then triangulate the interpretive structure with TF–IDF (1–3-grams) and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), iteratively reconciling discrepancies between human-coded themes and machine-surfaced term clusters. The process yields four deployable categories—Leadership & Organizational Change, Knowledge & Learning, Innovation & Digital Transformation, and Sustainability & ESG—supporting submission fit, reviewer assignment, and metadata quality.

Author Biography

Milos Drdla, Mendel University in Brno

Ing. Miloš Drdla, Dr., MBA, LL.M. is a university lecturer at Mendel University in Brno and Brno International Business School. He completed his studies at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic and Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. His areas of specialization include strategic management, organizational change management, and security. With 34 years of academic experience, he has supervised hundreds of Master’s theses and regularly serves on final state examination boards. He is actively involved in research, publishing, and presenting at conferences, and has completed professional internships in over 20 countries. In addition to his teaching career, he also provides consulting services in healthcare and security management.

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