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 30, Issue 1, 2025
Open Issue
Peer-Reviewed Papers:
- Strategic Reputation Management as a Driver of Public Sector Innovation, by Saltanat Ayubayeva, Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Larissa Kussainova, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Alua Ibrayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; Timur Baimukhanov, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Khalel Kussainov, K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University, all of Kazakhstan.
- Change Concepts and Innovation, Eleanor D. Glor, Fellow, McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Book Essay:
- Social Welfare Policy in Canada, reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor.
Book Review:
- Wielding The Force: The Science of Social Justice, by Zainab Amadahy, reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor.
News
Two open PhD positions within the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funded research project “Public Administration under Pressure”. The candidates will conduct research and write a doctoral thesis within the framework of the project, which investigates the various pressures that public administrations face, how they adapt to these challenges, and the consequences for their performance.
The project will start in September 2025, run for four years and will be led by Prof. Dr. Markus Hinterleitner, Idheap, University of Lausanne, and Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager, KPM, University of Bern.
The two job openings are here:
- University of Lausanne:
- University of Bern: (In English) (In German)
Markus Hinterleitner and Fritz Sager
University of BernProf. Dr. Fritz Sager
KPM Center for Public Management
PO Box, Schanzeneckstrasse 1
CH-3001 Bern, Switzerland
P +41 31 684 32 85
fritz.sager@unibe.ch
www.kpm.unibe.ch
Fritz Sager on Scholar Google
For the Visually Impaired
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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