Editor: Ronald J. Pohoryles
Published by: Taylor & Francis (UK)
Hard copy: ISSN: 1351-1610
Online: ISSN: 1469-8412
European integration and enlargement pose fundamental challenges for policy, politics, citizenship, culture and democracy. Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research provides a unique forum for discussing these processes. It welcomes articles on all aspects of European developments that contribute to the improvement of social science knowledge and to the setting of a policy-focused European research agenda.
Examples of typical subject areas covered in Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research include:
- Policy-Making and Agenda-Setting
- Multilevel Governance
- The Role of Institutions
- Democracy and Civil Society
- Social Structures and Integration
- Sustainability and Ecological Modernization
- Science, Research, Technology and Society
- Scenarios and Strategic Planning
- Public Policy Analysis
- Research Methods
In promoting interdisciplinarity and comparative research, Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research is in part organized thematically. Precedence is given to thematic sections on a specific policy field that cover several of the above subject areas or thematic sections on a particular subject area comprising several policy fields.
The official languages of the journal are English and French.
Additional features of Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research are book reviews as well as a ‘European Research Review’ section with outlines of ongoing or recently completed research projects by groups or consortia of European researchers.
Articles from Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research Innovation are abstracted in Sociological Abstracts; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; Geo Abstracts; Ebsco CD Rom Database and Universal Microfilms Inc; CD Rom Database; Multicultural Education Abstracts; International Political Science Abstracts; Politics and Policy; Research Alert; Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts; Caredata Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; Thompson Scientific
Published in association with The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences and ICCR Foundation.


