Welcome to the Innovation Journal
The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal (TIJ) is an independent, blind peer-reviewed, Internet-based journal devoted to building knowledge about public sector innovation. It publishes scholarly and practitioner-oriented papers, books, case studies, review essays, and book reviews. It has a French site, La Revue de l’innovation. Contributions of articles on government and non-profit sector innovation and your comments about this site are welcome. Please Contact Editor in Chief Eleanor Glor.
The Innovation Journal has been linked from a number of Internet sites and has been listed as one of the ten best public administration sites on the world wide web by both the Australian Public Administration Association and ASPANET. The American Society for Public Administration is the largest public administration organization in the world.
The Innovation Journal is indexed/aggregated by:
1. Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory (Proquest)
2. CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Proquest)
3. Political Science full text (ProQuest)
4. Ebsco
5. Cabell’s Directory and Scholarly Analytics
6. Scopus
7. Elsevier
8. Google Scholar
9. Scimago Journal and Country Rank (3rd page, 2021, Public Administration)
What’s New
Volume 29, Issue 2, 2024
Open Issue
Peer-Reviewed Papers:
- Some Things We Have Learned about Public Innovation, by Eleanor D. Glor, Editor-in-Chief, The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Ottawa; Fellow, McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto
Book Reviews:
- Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics, edited by David McGrane and Neil Hibbert, reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor
News:
The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation is taking applications for the 2025 year! Please see the attached flier and help us spread the word with your friends and colleagues. Applications are due January 10, 2025.
The Touch of Genius Prize was developed to inspire entrepreneurs, educators, or inventors to continue the promotion of braille and tactile literacy for blind and deafblind people worldwide. This prize can be granted for innovative and accessible computer software applications, tactile hardware, or curriculum that promotes braille and/or tactile literacy. NBP encourages all applicants to think outside the box for what can be used to help improve the lives of blind people. Even if you have applied in previous years, we encourage you to apply again! The winner of this prize will receive up to $10,000, which will help them to continue to innovate in the fields of technology and education for the blind community. The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation is provided by the support of Susan Olivo and the Lavelle Fund for the Blind.
Full application details and more information can be found at www.touchofgeniusprize.org.
All questions can be directed to geniusprize@nbp.org.
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CALJ Innovation Award
Journal Editors,
We are pleased to announce that the application process for the 2024 CALJ Innovation Award is now open.
This award recognizes innovation implemented or first measured in 2023 by a Canadian scholarly journal and which is focused on enhancing readership and/or other forms of engagement with journal content.
This is our opportunity to showcase the innovation that’s happening in Canada with our scholarly journals!
Prize: The winner will receive a certificate honouring their achievements as well as a free annual membership to CALJ, and an announcement will be posted on CALJ websites. The winner will be announced at the CALJ Annual Meeting in June.
Applying: To learn more about eligibility criteria and the application process, please visit the application form and guidelines.
Deadline for applications: Midnight PST, June 3, 2024Prior winners of the Award:
- Canadian Public Policy
- Canadian Literature for its CanLit Guide
- The Toronto Journal of Theology for its video introductions
- FACETS – for its innovative multidisciplinary publishing format
- Encounters in Theory and History of Education for its Digital Media and Methods Section
Canadian Association of Learned Journals – https://www.calj-acrs.ca/news
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Call for applications: STRATEGO Visiting Researchers Programme 2024. Deadline for applications: January 12, 2024. Link
- Data-Smart City Solutions. Newsletter published by: Harvard Kennedy School, 79 J. F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA. Link: https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/ and https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/artificial-intelligence/
- John Hannaford, Privy Council Clerk of the Government of Canada, sets up public service teams to think about future problems, by Policy Options. Originally published in Policy Options December 7, 2023. Link: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2023/dms-future-pu
For the Visually Impaired
If you are visually impaired, The Innovation Journal would be happy to send you an electronic copy of the original word processed document that has been published in Acrobat on our site.
Impact Factor
Scopus SC Imago ranks public administration journals by citations. Its SJR indicator measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, expressing how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is. The measure Cites per Doc. (2 years) measures the scientific impact of an average article published in the journal within two years of publication; it is computed using the same formula as Journal Impact Factor™ (Thomson Reuters). It also measures the impact within three years. In 2022, TIJ ranked 125th, Q3 worldwide with a SJR of 0.246 and an H-index of 18 among the top 177 public administration journals, the ones that met the Scimago criteria. In 2021, TIJ ranked 85th, Q3 (4 short of a Q2 rating) with a SJR of 0.371 and an H-index of 17 among the top 172 public administration journals. In 2019, TIJ ranked 97th, Q3 among the top 164 public administration journals. It received a two-year average of 0.33 (was 1.67) cites per article and total cites of 106, 5.6 per article within three years. Because TIJ publishes in a specialized field, it receives fewer citations than more general journals. Nonetheless, it publishes most of the material on public sector innovation worldwide. See Scopus SC Imago.
Announcements
If you would like to receive announcements of new material being published in The Innovation Journal, please send a request to the Editor-in-Chief. Announcements are sent out approximately three times per year.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship opportunities are available for The Innovation Journal as a whole, on an annual basis, and for each of the issues and special issues. For more information on these opportunities, contact us at glor@magma.ca. The Innovation Journal also accepts advertising.
Invitation to Submit Papers
You are invited to submit material to The Innovation Journal. Before doing so, please review our information for authors. Please submit papers to glor@magma.ca.
Eleanor Glor
Editor in Chief