About this journal
Aims and scope
Innovation and Development is an interdisciplinary journal publishing high-quality original research on innovation, development and their interaction. Research published in the journal places innovation at the very heart of the development process and focuses on its evolutionary and institutional characteristics.
Aims of the journal
The aim of the journal is to provide a dedicated outlet and key reference point for researchers working at the intersection of innovation studies and development studies. The journal publishes research on development problems in low- and middle-income countries but also maintains a dedicated emphasis on exploring the intricate interplay between local and global dynamics, addressing globalisation and governance issues related to learning and innovation. The journal is particularly interested in research that is interdisciplinary and that has the potential to inform policy and practice.
Scope of the journal
Innovation and Development adopts a broad approach to innovation, as a socially embedded and evolutionary process which include technological, institutional and organisational aspects in all sectors of the economy and sections of society. It is unique in its comprehensive conception of innovation as a systemic process and one with potentially transformative effects on sustainable and inclusive development.
Disciplinary groundings
This focus of the journal cuts across the fields such of innovation studies and evolutionary economics, development studies and development economics, technology management, science of science, international business, entrepreneurship, economic geography, and organisational behaviour. We welcome manuscripts on a wide range of topics, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches, if they are theoretically rigorous and address novel, significant, and engaging questions related to innovation and development.
Current priority themes
The following is a list of priority themes which is currently given special attention by the editorial board:
- New and emerging technologies in the Global South
- Green transformations, technologies, and economic development
- Innovation for the SDGs
- Innovation and upgrading in agriculture.
- Greening and natural resources
- Local-global interfaces of technological and economic development
- New theories and methods for innovation and development research
Journal metrics
Usage
- 64K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- 3.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.793 (2023) SNIP
- 0.422 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 6 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 116 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 24% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
K J Joseph – Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (India)
Rasmus Lema – UNU-MERIT, United Nations University (Netherlands) and University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
Associate Editors
Abiodun Egbetokun – National Centre for Technology Management (Nigeria) and De Montfort University (UK)
Anabel Marin – Institute of Development Studies (UK) and CENIT-CONICET, (Argentina)
Andrew Hall – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia)
Claudia De Fuentes – Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University (Canada)
Daniel Johnson – Colorado College (USA)
Glenda Kruss – Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
Jun Jin – Zhejiang University (China)
Michiko Iizuka – National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan)
Smita Srinivas – Open University (UK), University College London (UK), Technological Change Lab
Editorial Advisory Board
Amartya Sen - Harvard University, USA
Bengt-Åke Lundvall - Aalborg University, Denmark
Carlota Perez - The Open University, UK
Charles Edquist - Lund University, Sweden
Deepak Nayyar - Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Giovanni Dosi - Sant'anna Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pisa, Italy
Govindan Parayil - University of South Florida, USA
Jairam Ramesh - Member of Parliament, India
Jan Fagerberg - Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, Norway
Jorge Katz - University of Chile, Chile
Jose E. Cassiolato - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kaushik Basu - Cornell University, USA
Luc Soete - UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands
Martin Fransman - University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Mihir Shah - Samaj Pragathi Sahyog, India
Pranab Bardhan - University of California-Berkeley, USA
Richard R. Nelson - Columbia University, USA
Raphael Kaplinsky - The Open University, UK
Richard Heeks - University of Manchester, UK
Shulin Gu - Tsinghua University, China
T. M. Thomas Isaac - Finance Minister, Government of Kerala, India
Xiolan Fu - University of Oxford, UK
Mammo Muchie - Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Judith Sutz - University of the Republic of Uruguay, Uruguay
Scientific Committee
A Damodaran - IIM-B, India
Abdelkader Djeflat - (Algeria) University of Lille, France
Allan Dahl Andersen - University of Oslo (TIK), Norway
Angathevar Bhaskaran - University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Anna Kingiri - African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya
Aradhna Agarwal - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Astrid Szogs - ATPS-Tanzania
Atsushi Sunami - Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies, Japan
Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka - UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya, UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands
Birgitte Gregersen - Aalborg University, Denmark
Bitrina Diyamett - Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Research Organization, Tanzania
Ca Tran Ngoc - NCSTP, Vietnam
Carlo Pietrobelli - Inter – American Development Bank, USA & University of Roma Tre, Italy
Chen Jin - Zhejiang University, China
D. Narayana - Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, India
Daniel K.N. Johnson - Colorado College, USA
David Kaplan - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dinesh Abrol - Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, India
Eduardo Albuquerque - Cedeplar-UFMG, Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil
Eduardo B Viotti - University of Brasilia, Brazil
Elisa Giuliani - University of Pisa, Italy & University of Sussex, UK
Erika Kraemer-Mbula - Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Erkan Erdil - Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Erkki Kaukonen - University of Tampere, Finland
Erman Aminullah - Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia
Franco Malerba - Bocconi University, Italy
Fulvio Castellacci - University of Oslo (TIK), Norway
Gabriel Yoguel - National University of Gral Sarmiento, Argentina
Helena Barnard - University of Pretoria, South Africa
Helena Lastres - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hideki Esho - Hosei University, Japan
Jan Vang - Aalborg University, Denmark
Joanna Chataway - ESRC INNOGEN Centre, Open University and RAND Europe
John M Bryden - University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jojo Jacob - Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
Jorge Niosi - University of Quebec, Canada
José Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz - Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico
Juan Manuel Corona Alcantar - Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico
K. Narayanan - IIT Mumbay
K. N. Harilal - Kerala State Planning Board, India
Kazuyuki Motohashi - University of Tokyo, Japan
Keshab Das - Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India
Keun Lee - Seoul National University, South Korea
Lakhwinder Singh - Punjabi University, India
Liu Ju - Lund University, Sweden
Liu Xielin - Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science, China
Liyan Zhang - Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China
M. Parameswaran - Centre for Development Studies, India
Manuel Heitor - Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Government of Portugal
Manuel Mira Godinho - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maria Clara Couto Soares - RedeSist, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Maureen McKelvey - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Michiko Iizuka - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
Morris Teubal - Hebrew University, Israel
Naubahar Sharif - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
N S Siddharthan - Madras School of Economics, India
Nina Kazakova - Saratov State Technical University, Russia
Olav Wicken - University of Oslo (TIK), Norway
Pier-Paolo Saviotti - Université Pierre Mendès-France
Padmashree Gehl Sampat - UNCTAD, Switzerland
Patarapong Intarakumnerd - Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies, Japan
Paulo N. Figueiredo - Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
Peter Gammeltoft - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Rainer Walz - Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany
Rajah Rasiah - University of Malaya, Malaysia
Rajeswari Raina - Shiv Nadar University, India
Rakesh Basant - IIM-A, India
Rasigan Maharajh - Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Rishikesha T. Krishnan - IIM-Indore, India
Saradindu Bhaduri - Jawaharlal Nehru University (CSSP) India
Slavo Radosevic - University of London, UK
Smita Srinivas - Columbia University
Sudip Chaudhuri - IIM-C, India
Suma Athreye - Brunel University, UK, UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands
Tilman Altenburg - German Development Institute, Germany
Valeria Arza - University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
Vijayamohanan Pillai - Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, India
Vinoj Abraham - Centre for Development Studies, India
Xiaobo Wu - Zhejiang University, China
Updated 20-01-2021
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