The Journal of Responsible Innovation (JRI) provides a forum for discussions of the normative governance, practice, and assessment of knowledge-based innovation. JRI offers humanists, social scientists, policy analysts, legal scholars, natural scientists, and engineers an opportunity to articulate, strengthen, and critique the relations among approaches to responsible innovation. These approaches include:
ethics,
technology assessment,
governance,
sustainability,
public engagement,
management and strategy
socio-technical integration, and others.
JRI considers responsible innovation to be inclusive of such terms as responsible development, responsible research and innovation (RRI), and sustainable development, and the journal invites comparisons and contrasts among such concepts. While issues of risk and environmental health and safety are relevant, JRI especially encourages attention to the assessment of the broader and more subtle human and social dimensions of innovation—including moral, cultural, political, and religious dimensions, social risk, and sustainability addressed in a systemic fashion.
JRI invites three kinds of written contributions:
research articles of 6,000 to 10,000 words in length, inclusive of notes and references, that communicate original theoretical or empirical investigations;
perspectives of approximately 2,000 words in length that communicate opinions, summaries, or reviews of timely issues, publications, cultural or social events, or other activities;
pedagogy communicating in appropriate length experience in or studies of teaching, training, and learning related to responsible innovation in formal (e.g., classroom) and informal (e.g., museum) environments.
JRI is open to alternative styles or genres of writing beyond the traditional research paper or report, including creative or narrative nonfiction, dialogue, and first-person accounts, provided that scholarly completeness and integrity are retained. JRI welcomes other kinds of appropriate contributions that could include photo-essays, videos, etc.
JRI actively encourages proposals for special issues in appropriate cutting-edge areas, and these should be discussed directly with the Editor-in-Chief.
Peer review policy
Upon receipt of a submitted manuscript, the Editorial Office will assess its relevance to the mission of the journal and its conformity to its technical requirement. Given a positive assessment, the Editorial Office will seek the advice of anonymous peer reviewers to evaluate the intellectual quality of the manuscript. The decision to accept or reject the manuscript rests with the Editorial Office. All peer review is double anonymized, and submissions can be made online on our Submission Portal.
*Please note that Journal of Responsible Innovation converted to a fully Open Access journal beginning with Volume 8 (2021). The 2014-2020 volumes will be free to access from 1 January 2021.
Journal metrics
Usage
188K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
3.9 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
4.1 (2023) 5 year IF
8.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.815 (2023) SNIP
1.531 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
41 days avg. from submission to first
decision
98 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
24 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
23% acceptance rate
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quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
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.
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.
Editor-in-Chief Erik Fisher, School for the Future of Innovation in Society | Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University, USA, Email: [email protected]
Founding Editor David. H. Guston, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, USA
Associate Editors Steven Flipse, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Armin Grunwald, ITAS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Richard Owen, Bristol University, UK Mario Pansera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Sujatha Raman, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Barbara Ribeiro, Skena Business School, France Mareike Smolka, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands, and RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Editorial Assistant Philipp Neudert, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Editorial Board Wiebe Bijker, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands Vincent Blok, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands Diana Bowman, Arizona State University, USA Sachin Chaturvedi, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India Shannon Conley, James Madison University, USA Jason Delborne, North Carolina State University, USA Conor Douglas, York University, Canada Heather Douglas, Michigan State University, USA Weiwen Duan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna, Austria Lu Gao, The Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, China Philippe Goujon, University of Namur, Belgium Megan Halpern, Michigan State University, USA Jonathan Hankins, Bassetti Foundation, Italy Sarah Hartley, University of Exeter Business School, UK Aharon Hauptman, University of Tel Aviv, Israel Thomas A. Hemphill,University of Michigan-Flint, USA Rachelle Hollander, National Academy of Engineering, USA Maja Horst,Danish Technical Univeristy (DTU), Denmark Noela Invernizzi, Federal University of Parana, Brazil Julian Kinderlerer,University of Cape Town, South Africa Ralf Lindner,Fraunhofer Institut, Germany Philip Macnaghten, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University, USA Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA Arie Rip, University of Twente, the Netherlands René von Schomberg, European Commission, Belgium Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire, UK Tsjalling Swierstra, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Raúl Tabarés, Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain Kevin Urama,African Technology Policy Studies Network, Kenya Frank Vanclay, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Simone van der Burg , Waag Futurelab, the Netherlands Michiel van Oudheusden, University of Cambridge, UK Kathleen Vogel, Arizona State University, USA Tom Wang, Renmin University of China, China Fern Wickson,The Arctic University of Norway, Norway Go Yoshizawa, Osaka University, Japan Joy Yueyue Zhang, University of Kent, UK
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