This article addresses the socio-organisational patterns and everyday functioning of disciplines in the Croatian academic system, as well as in the international context. In his influential work, Whitley (1985) observed that there was increasing convergence in the development of publishing practices and knowledge creation in all disciplines in a relatively short time span, which he interpreted as an intra-scientific development process of social and cognitive standardisation. Changes are heavily influenced by science policies. In the last two decades, there has been a growing concern about a culture of speed that produces growing heaps of publications, at the same time marginalising slow and creative thought and reflection (Müller, 2014). Central to all of the changes summarised