INNOVATION – The European Journal of Social Science Research

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.