The forecasting of a scientific domain (on the basis of a leading subject journal)

Abstract

This article describes a research program for modeling, estimation and forecasting of the state of the infor mation space that exists in a separate subject domain that is formed by a leading scientific journal. Cognitive linguistics is considered as the subject domain and publications of the Russian scientific journal Problems of Cognitive Linguistics, which is entirely dedicated to the development of lingua cognitive problematics, pro vided the data for study.