Journal info (provided by editor)

% accepted last year
n/a
% immediately rejected last year
45% imm. rejected
Articles published last year
40 articles
Manuscripts received last year
167 manuscripts
Open access status
optional
Manuscript handling fee
none

Impact factors (provided by editor)

Two-year impact factor
n/a
Five-year impact factor
0.38

Aims and Scope

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 include

Policy-Making and Agenda-Setting
Multilevel Governance
The Role of Institutions
Democracy and Civil Society
Social Structures and Integration
Sustainability and Ecological Modernisation
Science, Research, Technology and Society
Scenarios and Strategic Planning
Public Pol

Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
5.9 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
9.9 months
Decision time immediate rejection
n/a
Average number of review rounds
2.5 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
2.0 / 5.0 (easy)
Average number of review reports
1.0 reports

Characteristics of peer review process

Quality of review reports
3.5 / 5.0
Overall rating manuscript handling
3.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 32.7 weeks. Overall rating: 3 (good). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
Editors are kind and professional. I feel the comments of reviewer(s) improved my paper. But the waiting time is excessively long with this journal.