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Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
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Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

1351-1610

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ciej20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1164 7 7 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 21
Documents by Best Scientists*: 20
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 47
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.577
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Innovation-the European Journal of Social Science Research?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Economic growth, China, Politics, Public relations and Social science. The study on China presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Economic system. The Politics study featured in it draws parallels with the field of Political economy.

The journal links adjacent topics like Social science with Epistemology.

  • Economic growth (13.45%)
  • China (10.89%)
  • Politics (9.23%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Modelling the smart city performance (471 citations)
  • Towards a european public sphere? Vertical and horizontal dimensions of europeanised political communication (225 citations)
  • Differentiated Knowledge Bases and Varieties of Regional Innovation Systems (217 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Innovation-the European Journal of Social Science Research:

Knowledge management, Economic growth, Public relations, Politics and Economic system are the main subjects of interest in the most cited articles. In addition to Knowledge management research, the most cited articles aim to explore topics under Government, Marketing and Process (engineering). The most cited articles hold forums on Politics that merge themes from other disciplines such as Social science, Political economy and Public administration.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Innovation-the European Journal of Social Science Research facilitates discussions on Knowledge management, Public relations, Social innovation, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Orderly Porous Covalent Organic Frameworks-based Materials: Superior Adsorbents for Pollutants Removal from Aqueous Solutions (191 citations)
  • clusterProfiler 4.0: A universal enrichment tool for interpreting omics data. (24 citations)
  • Small Molecular NIR-II Fluorophores for Cancer Phototheranostics. (24 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Innovation-the European Journal of Social Science Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ronald J. Pohoryles (57 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Liana Giorgi (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter Nijkamp (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alice B.M. Vadrot (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John Crowley (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Innovation-the European Journal of Social Science Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (71 papers) published 48 papers at the last edition, 25 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peking University (17 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Sun Yat-sen University (12 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 10.36% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 32.16% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.52% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.57% of all publications and 49.75% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Social innovation & governance: a scoping review

    Diego Galego;Frank Moulaert;Marleen Brans;Gonçalo Santinha

    (2021)
    70 Citations
  • The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions

    Pasi Pohjolainen;Iida Kukkonen;Pekka Jokinen;Wouter Poortinga

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Social inclusion in sports clubs across Europe: determinants of social innovation

    J. Corthouts;E. Thibaut;C. Breuer;S. Feiler

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences

    (2024)
    9 Citations
  • The future of aeromobilities in the light of global disruption

    (2023)
    4 Citations
  • Narratives for personal and collective transformations

    (2022)
    0 Citations
  • Bouncing forward better – micro-foundations of combinatorial innovation

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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