Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

Aims & Scope

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.[...] Examples of typical subject areas covered include • Policy-Making and Agenda-Setting • Multilevel Governance • Management of Economic, Political and Societal Transformations • The Role of Institutions • Democracy and Civil Society • Social Structures and Integration • Social Justice and Inequality • Digital Transformation and the Future of Societies • Sustainability and Ecological Modernisation • Science, Research, Technology and Society • Scenarios and Strategic Planning • Public Policy Analysis • Research Methods

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3
2024	1.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.577

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	47

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10051

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	447

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Modelling the smart city performance

  Citation: 575

  Authors: Patrizia, Silvia, Hend, Wael

• Smart cities in perspective – a comparative European study by means of self-organizing maps

  Citation: 170

  Authors: Karima, Peter, Daniel

• Social innovation, an answer to contemporary societal challenges? Locating the concept in theory and practice

  Citation: 170

  Authors: Robert, Christopher, Susan, Kevin

• Social cohesion revisited: a new definition and how to characterize it

  Citation: 166

  Authors: Xavier, Stephan, Frances

• DIFFERENTIATED KNOWLEDGE BASES AND VARIETIES OF REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Bjørn

• Smart cities in the innovation age

  Citation: 137

  Authors: Karima, Peter

• Regional industrial restructuring resulting from individual and system agency

  Citation: 134

  Authors: Arne, Stig-Erik, Rune, Roger

• Smart specialisation, innovation policy and regional innovation systems: what about new path development in less innovative regions?

  Citation: 119

  Authors: Bjørn Terje

• Gender cultures and the gender arrangement—a theoretical framework for cross‐national gender research

  Citation: 113

  Authors: Birgit

• Towards a European public sphere?

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Ruud, Jessica

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