Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research is a social science journal on innovation, change, and transformation of organisations, institutions, and societies at large. It combines analytical and descriptive rigour with an attempt to provide and discuss solutions, visions, roadmaps as well as threat scenarios and dystopias. We consider this combination of hermeneutical analysis and application of deconstruction and construction as the cornerstone of the journal, which is open for all social and cultural sciences.
The journal is not focusing on Europe alone but publishes articles on all parts of the world. However, authors, which submit manuscripts on non-European regions, are encouraged to include a comparative chapter or paragraph with a European region, Europe at large or highlight the relevance of their research results for said regions, as we see the journal as a developer of solutions to further European integration.
European integration and enlargement pose fundamental challenges for policy, politics, citizenship, culture, and democracy. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research provides a unique forum for discussing these processes. It welcomes articles on all aspects of European developments that contribute to the improvement of social science knowledge and the setting of a policy-focused European research agenda. This does not exclude theoretical reflections. For as we know: “There is nothing more practical than a good theory” (Kurt Lewin)
Our aim is to develop societal innovations, contribute to methodological innovations in the social sciences and to create solutions for Europe.
We welcome articles that can be included in the following categories:
Analyses • Public Policy Analysis • Polity Analysis and Multilevel Governance • Institutional Analysis from a Societal and Political Perspective
Tools and instruments • Managing Political and Socio-Economic Transformations • Scenarios and Strategic Planning
Topics • Democracy and Civil Society • Social Structures and Integration • Social Justice and Inequality • Digital Transformation and the Future of Societies • Sustainability and Ecological Modernisation • Science-Technology-Society Relations
While generally open, our non-special issues are bound by thematic foci identified by the responsible editors. This allows to further strengthen the journal’s goal of supporting interdisciplinarity and comparative research perspectives. We expect articles in methodological terms to primarily use qualitative approaches, without excluding quantitative instruments.
Besides regular Research Articles, the journal publishes Research Notes and Research Discussions. Research Notes are typically shorter in length than articles (e.g., 1,500-3,000 words) and may involve less conventional outputs and preliminary findings, and methodological questions and concerns of on-going research projects. Research Discussions provide statements to current scientific discussions and theoretical debates (e.g., as a statement or a literature survey). In all formats, scientific standards have to be observed. The language of the journal is English only. Please make sure to indicate which category your contribution shall be attributed to.
Peer Review Process: All scientific papers in this journal undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Initially, every submitted article is evaluated by the editors. They decide to either accept it for peer-review or desk-reject it immediately if, for example, it does not fit the Aims & Scope or does not fulfil basic academic standards.
Manuscripts that are selected by the editors for further consideration undergo a double anonymzed peer review process by at least two referees. Double anonymized means that neither the authors nor the reviewers know the identity of the other part. Reviewers are members of our international Advisory Board or other experts whose work and interests are comparable to those of the work submitted. Based on the reviews the editors come to a decision (accept, minor/major revisions, reject) and inform the author.
The average review time (from submission until first post-review decision) of our journal is 4 months. The average time from submission to publication is 7 months. The length of the process can vary and heavily depends on different factors such as the timeliness of reviews or the schedule of editors.
Journal metrics
Usage
131K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
4.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.888 (2023) SNIP
0.503 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
51 days avg. from submission to first
decision
165 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
13 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
28% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
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: Hans-Liudger Dienel - TU Berlin & nexus Institute for Co-operation Management and Interdisciplinary Research ( [email protected])
Founding Editor: Ronald J. Pohoryles -Honorary President, The European Association for the Advancement of the Social Sciences & the International Centre of Comparative Research (ICCR), Vienna, Austria
Associate Editors: Thomas Blanchet - nexus Institute for Co-operation Management and Interdisciplinary Research, Germany Saša Božic - University of Zadar, Department of Sociology, Croatia Mattia Casula - University of Bologna, Italy Valentina Fava - University of Venice, Italy Angela Jain - Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany Olga Kutsenko - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Tochukwu Omenma - University of Nigeria, Nigeria Marco Wedel - Technical University Berlin, Germany
Editorial Officers: Nele Buchholz - nexus Institute for Co-operation Management and Interdisciplinary Research ( [email protected]) Justine Kenzler - nexus Institute for Co-operation Management and Interdisciplinary Research ( [email protected])
You can find more details about the members of the Editorial Board here.
International Advisory Board: Aaron Benavot- University of Albany, USA Jirí Blažek – Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic Ulrich Brand-University of Vienna, Austria Alexander Carius- ADELPHI-RESEARCH, Germany Chris Caswill- University of Manchester, UK Kyriakos Demetriou- University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Adalbert Evers- Heidelberg University, Germany Gerhard Fröhlich- Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria Steve Fuller-University of Warwick, UK Tuija Hilding-Ryvedik- Swedish University of Agricultural Science Josef Hochgerner- Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria Roman Hummel- Universität Wien, Vienna Savvas Katsikides- University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Michael Landesmann- Vienna Institute for International Economics Studies, Austria Amy H. Liu – The University of Texas at Austin, USA Yngvar Lochen- University of Tromso, Norway (d. 1998) Bernd Marin-European Bureau for Policy Consulting and Social Research, and Institut für die Wissenschaften /IWM, Vienna, Austria Andrei S. Markovits- University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA Les Mayhew-City University, London Francis McGowan- Sussex European Institute, UK Gerald Mullally- University College of Cork, Ireland Maria Nedeva- Victoria University of Manchester, UK Steven Ney-HPI School of Design Thinking, Potsdam, Germany Alan Pearman-University of Leeds, UK Mathieu Petithomme-Université de Bourgogne/Franche-Comté Katarzyna Pisarska – European Academy of Diplomacy; Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Ortwin Renn- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany Andrei Rezaev -St Petersburg State University, Russia Rudolf Richter- University of Vienna, Austria Hilary Rose- University of Bradford, UK Philip Schlesinger- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Miranda Schreurs- Technical University of Munich, Germany Mimi Sheller- Drexel University, USA Ketil Skogen-Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Oslo, Norway Nico Stehr- Karl Mannheim Professor Emeritus, Zeppelin University, Germany Arno Tausch -University of Innsbruck, Austria Alan Lin Tze-Luen – National Taiwan University, Taiwan Barend van der Meulen- University of Twente, The Netherlands Alice Vadrot - University of Vienna, Austria
Former Editorial Officer: Phoebe Fuhrmann
Abstracting and indexing
Innovation:The European Journal of Social Science Research is abstracted in ASSIA; CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Educational Research Abstracts Online; Geobase; IBSS; OCLC; Research into Higher Education Abstracts; SCOPUS; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts; and PAIS International in Print.
Open access
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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