Call for papers for a CIJ Special Issue on ‘Innovations in Career and Life Design’
Submission deadline: 26 August 2024
IdeaSquare CERN Innovation Social Innovation Business Experimentation Experimental Innovation
CIJ is an interdisciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal seeking to advance both theoretical and practical understanding on how to turn new knowledge into use for society. Based at IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN, home to a variety of innovation programmes and events, CIJ is uniquely positioned to collect and test new innovation knowledge. IdeaSquare activities are a reference point to research published in CIJ, for example, as a comparative research setting or an open data depository.
The journal publishes short, original articles that quickly communicate the latest insights about innovation processes across domains ranging from idea creation to end-user, business-to-business, innovation methodologies, tools, educational approaches, knowledge exchange, management, policy, to other topical areas across different contexts e.g., projects, start-ups, small-medium enterprises, large multinational, or governmental agencies.
The journal is receptive to all types of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Empirical manuscripts should be in conversation with current experimental innovation theory and theoretical work should synthesise empirical advancements and/or propose evolved empirical research designs. In addition, CIJ welcomes replication studies and also publishes coffee papers. The focus of the journal is on publications with early-stage, unconventional insights that can direct the field into new research directions and more extensive experiments. For this reason, copyrights of the published papers remain at author(s) for future use and development and are not transferred to CIJ.
Authors across the world from diverse disciplines and functional perspectives are welcome to submit to the journal.
In the scientific spirit of CERN, CIJ is focused on experimenting around innovation to attain further knowledge. However, CIJ does not look for linear and incremental accumulation of results through common methods such as surveys, questionnaires, or case studies. Instead, it seeks out for the “oh?” instances in your results that spark new ideas, go against what is commonly understood, and inspire us to ask more questions and create new experiments. Indeed, “experiment” is the overarching theme of CIJ, be it classical laboratory experiments, field experiments, or even thought experiments – as long as the research works to advance practice oriented and experimentation-driven innovation. CIJ welcomes articles from fields including, but not limited to:
All manuscripts submitted will first go through the initial screening that contains the evaluation of suitability of the submitted manuscript according to following criteria:
If the submitted manuscript passes the initial screen, the Editor-in-Chief will recruit reviewers to assess the merits of the manuscript. Upon receipt of the reviews, the Editor-in-Chief will provide a recommendation to the authors stating whether the submission is accepted as is, revised, or rejected. Note that CIJ makes use of a double-blind review process in which the Editor-in-Chief knows the identity of the authors but the reviewers or authors do not. Our policy is to have a definite editorial decision by the end of the second review round.
CIJ strives to provide high-quality feedback to all authors within 30 days for each review round. The decision of the Editor-in-Chief (Reject, Major Revision, Minor Revision, and Accept) is emailed to corresponding author. The e-mail message will contain any reviews submitted and also in case of revision is needed the information for the steps needed in preparing the re-submission.
Reviewers must not share information with any generative artificial intelligence tools as to follow the confidentiality of the peer-review process.
All revisions should:
Published three times a year, in April, August and December.
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CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation is indexed in DOAJ and in Scopus.
The Journal is sponsored by CERN. No article processing charges nor article submission charges are requested of the authors.
Submission deadline: 26 August 2024
We are pleased to announce that Matteo Vignoli, currently co-editor of the CERN IdeaSquare
Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ), has accepted to take up the role of Editor in Chief of the
Journal as of June 1 st , 2023.