The Journal of Responsible Innovation (JRI) provides a forum for discussions of the normative governance, practice, and assessment of knowledge-based innovation. JRI offers humanists, social scientists, policy analysts, legal scholars, natural scientists, and engineers an opportunity to articulate, strengthen, and critique the relations among approaches to responsible innovation. These approaches include:
- ethics,
- technology assessment,
- governance,
- sustainability,
- public engagement,
- management and strategy
- socio-technical integration, and others.
JRI considers responsible innovation to be inclusive of such terms as responsible development, responsible research and innovation (RRI), and sustainable development, and the journal invites comparisons and contrasts among such concepts. While issues of risk and environmental health and safety are relevant,
JRI especially encourages attention to the assessment of the broader and more subtle human and social dimensions of innovation—including moral, cultural, political, and religious dimensions, social risk, and sustainability addressed in a systemic fashion.
JRI invites three kinds of written contributions:
- research articles of 6,000 to 10,000 words in length, inclusive of notes and references, that communicate original theoretical or empirical investigations;
- perspectives of approximately 2,000 words in length that communicate opinions, summaries, or reviews of timely issues, publications, cultural or social events, or other activities;
- pedagogy communicating in appropriate length experience in or studies of teaching, training, and learning related to responsible innovation in formal (e.g., classroom) and informal (e.g., museum) environments.
JRI is open to alternative styles or genres of writing beyond the traditional research paper or report, including creative or narrative nonfiction, dialogue, and first-person accounts, provided that scholarly completeness and integrity are retained. JRI welcomes other kinds of appropriate contributions that could include photo-essays, videos, etc.
JRI actively encourages proposals for special issues in appropriate cutting-edge areas, and these should be discussed directly with the Editor-in-Chief.
Peer review policy
Upon receipt of a submitted manuscript, the Editorial Office will assess its relevance to the mission of the journal and its conformity to its technical requirement. Given a positive assessment, the Editorial Office will seek the advice of anonymous peer reviewers to evaluate the intellectual quality of the manuscript. The decision to accept or reject the manuscript rests with the Editorial Office. All peer review is double anonymized, and submissions can be made online on our Submission Portal.
Publishing Ethics The Journal adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics, with rigorous processes in place to ensure this is achieved. Taylor & Francis is a member of
Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE) and utilises
CrossCheck for all Journals. More information on our ethical standards and policies can be found here:
http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/ethics-for-authors/ The Journal has an appeals and complaints policy which can be viewed here:
https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/peer-review-appeals-and-complaints-from-authors/.
*Please note that Journal of Responsible Innovation converted to a fully Open Access journal beginning with Volume 8 (2021). The 2014-2020 volumes will be free to access from 1 January 2021.
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