Prometheus

Prometheus is published by Pluto Journals. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Research, Science, and Academia, Information Society and Technology Trends and ICT Impact and Policies, together about 30.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published by Pluto Journal Ltd from 2019. Prometheus is an international, multidisciplinary journal publishing papers on innovation, by which we mean the production, introduction and diffusion of change. Prometheus publishes critical papers, those that express – and justify – opinions on innovation issues. We are particularly attracted to papers that challenge prevailing views. We encourage debate. From a core interest in technological change and the information required to bring it about, the journal's scope has expanded to cover: the history of innovation information for innovation invention and creativity research and development diffusion of innovation science and technology policy organisational strategy for innovation intellectual property rights communication and information technology networks and spatial dimensions of innovation open innovation the social, economic and political environment of innovation the management of innovation the evaluation of innovation Cover Credit: Laconian cup with the punishment of Atlas and Prometheus. Vatican, Gregorian Museum of the Etruscan Art. © 2009. Photo Scala, Florence Submission Papers should not be so technical or specialised that they cannot be appreciated by a readership that includes academics, practitioners and policy makers and excludes no one. Please submit your article to the general editor, as an email attachment, identifying the Prometheus editor considered most appropriate to handle the submission. Peer Review Procedures Research Papers. Submissions are acknowledged immediately and are then screened by the general editor to ensure they are suited to the journal. Those judged suitable are then allocated to an editor, who will select appropriate referees. Prometheus uses a single blind system of peer review: referees are anonymous but know the identity of authors. This system is used because expert referees are likely to be able to identify authors anyway. Referees are increasingly choosing to sacrifice their anonymity so they may correspond directly with authors. The role of the referee is to advise the editor: decisions about acceptance and revision are the responsibility of the editor. Special Issues. Prometheus occasionally devotes a whole issue to a single theme, often consisting of papers from a conference, but also invites proposals for independent thematic issues on specific topics. In such cases, an organiser familiar with the papers and their authors works as guest editor in collaboration

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Business, Management and Accounting-Strategy and Management

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

ScopusDOAJLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

ESCIWeb of SciencePublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, RePEc, APAIS, Australian Education Index, Australian Research Council ERA list 2015, Baidu Scholar, British Library Inside, CABS Academic Journal Guide, CNKI Scholar, CNPIEC, CnpLINKer, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI), Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, DTU Findit, E-lib Breman, EBSCO Databases, EconPapers, Education Research Complete, Electronic Journals Library (EZB), Finnish Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi), Genamics JournalSeek, GEOBASE, IBZ Online, IBR Online, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Iter, JournalTOCs, Microsoft Academic, National Library of China, Naver Academic

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

2.1LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.23LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

47OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

271OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.43OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 36 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 36 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

Pluto Journals

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

0810-9028

Electronic ISSN

1470-1030

Latest issue on the website

Volume 35, Issue 4 (2017)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub