The Innovation Journal – The Public Sector Innovation Journal

The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal (TIJ) is an independent, blind peer-reviewed, Internet-based journal devoted to building knowledge the 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. AskBisht
9. Scimago Journal and Country Rank (Q3, 154^th of 234 Public Administration journals)

What’s New

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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

In 2025, TIJ ranked 136^th of 180 public administration journals. This was Q3 worldwide with a SJR of 0.309 and an H-index of 23 among the top public administration journals, the ones that met the Scimago criteria. TIJ received a two-year average of 1.37 cites per article within two years. Because TIJ publishes in a specialized field, it receives fewer citations than journals addressing more general topics. Nonetheless, it publishes a substantial amount 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