About the Journal

The Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability (JSIS) takes a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing the many challenges of managing innovation and sustainability, rather than a narrow focus on a single aspect such as technology, R&D or new product development. JSIS is inclusive & practical, and encourages active interaction between academics, managers and consultants. The scope encompasses innovation research, sustainability research, policy analysis and best practices in large and small enterprises, public and private sector service organizations, state and national government, and local and regional societies and economies with special emphasis on linking academic research to future practice. Articles of all nature are published including: quantitative studies, qualitative studies, literature and book reviews, methodology, policy analyses, and case studies.

The target acceptance bounds of JSIS run between 14% and 20%. All articles go through a double blind review process, and acceptance decisions are made within forty-five days of submission. Authors of unaccepted papers are free to submit their papers to another journal.

Indexing Information

Articles from the Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability can be found in

PROQUEST-Entrepreneurship Studies Source
EBSCO-Entrepreneurship
Google Scholar
Ulrichs Web
The Australian Research Council Index

Impact Information

North American Business Press uses the h-index to measure the impact of its research. We chose this approachas the ISI (Thomson Reuters) citation approach only includes journals listed within their proprietary database. The h-index uses Google Scholar which is a better representation of all published work and we believe it is the direction of the future.

The h-index is an easy to understand method, proposed by Jorge E. Hirsch, to quantitatively measure the impact of a particular researcher or academic journal. For example, a journal has an h-index of 5, if, during the years 2016 and 2017, five of the total papers published during those years were each cited at least five times. The selection of the years 2016 and 2017 allows for an extra full year (2018) to account for the typical delay in the publication of research, and therefore in the production of new citations.

The 2018 h-index for the Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability is 3.

As a point of comparison, the 2018 h-index for the Journal of Marketing Management is 8, and the 2018 h-index for the Journal of Applied Business Research is 2.