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 the public sector, including the full range of issues involving public management, public administration, publicly funded services, political science, governments, non-government organizations and their innovation. It publishes scholarly and practitioner-oriented papers, books, case studies, review essays, and book reviews. All are blind peer-reviewed. It has a French site, La Revue de l’innovation. Contributions of articles 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, 2023, Public Administration)

What’s New

Volume 29, Issue 3, 2024
Open Issue

Peer-Reviewed Papers:

  1. Exploring Innovation in the Public Sector: Study of direct and indirect effects of psychological safety, learning behaviour, transformational leadership and learning attitudes on innovation climate, Marit Oppen, Inland University of Applied Sciences, Rena, Norway.
  2. Innovative Approaches to Public Services Delivery through the Prism of the Industry 5.0 Paradigm, by Baurzhan Bokayev, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA; Aigerim Amirova, Center for Analytical Research and Evaluation, Supreme Audit Chamber; Abilzhan Galy, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Anar Yessengeldina, Center for Analytical Research and Evaluation, Supreme Audit Chamber; Kuralay Sadykova, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; all four in Astana, Kazakhstan.
  3. Innovative Differences among Canadian Federal and Provincial Governments, by Eleanor D. Glor, Fellow, Public Administration and Management, McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Book Reviews:

  1. Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It), by Elizabeth Anderson, with an Introduction and Comments by Others, reviewed by Donald R. Officer.

News:

  1. Wanda Dalla Costa, University of Alberta alumna, Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Native Studies, is Canada’s first female First Nations architect. Dalla Costa seeks to innovate contemporary architecture by integrating the rich history of Native culture. 

More of What’s New

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, 2024

Prior 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

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 2023, TIJ ranked 129th of 216 public administration journals. This was Q3 worldwide with a SJR of 0.315 and an H-index of 21 among the top 216 public administration journals, the ones that met the Scimago criteria. TIJ received a two-year average of 0.56 cites per article within two 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