Innovation Journal

Innovation Journal is published by The Innovation Journal. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Public Policy and Administration Research, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development and Political Theory and Democracy, together about 34.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal is a non-partisan Internet-based journal devoted to sharing ideas and information about public sector innovation. Public servants, elected officials, academics, consultants and others share their thoughts through TIJ. The Innovation Journal‘s mission is to encourage innovation which will improve the quality, efficiency or effectiveness of government administration and policy. Innovation is defined as the first time a new way of doing something, a policy, service, program or administrative technique, an approach or a technology is introduced in a country. The Innovation Journal is particularly interested in new ways of doing things. All of the material in The Innovation Journal is peer reviewed, including scholarly-style articles, discussion papers, case studies and book reviews. Except for book reviews, all papers are also double blind reviewed. The Innovation Journal would appreciate receiving notice of publication of material on public sector innovation. The Innovation Journal includes material typically written by academics, consultants and administrative practitioners from a wide range of perspectives and countries. The Innovation Journal‘s readers are public servants at all levels of government and international agencies, academics, consultants, students and people interested in improvement of the public sector. The subject of the paper (public sector innovation), the quality of the contribution and its relevance to a wide audience are the main considerations in the decision to publish. Manuscripts based on highly specialized knowledge or highly technical methodology are therefore normally considered outside our terms of reference. Papers are invited on such topics as: The impact on innovation in government of government initiatives (such as “The New Public Management”) The innovativeness of government strategies and tactics Definitions and theory of innovation Innovation processes Managing change Analysis of cases of public sector innovation Approaches to innovation: partnerships, citizen-centred delivery, restructuring, empowerment Other topics of related to public sector innovation of interest to you

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Public Administration

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Canada 50, Norway 7, Switzerland 6, United States 5, United Kingdom 5 (93 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.7LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.31LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.64LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

21OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

29OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

The Innovation Journal

ISSN

1715-3816

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website