Journal of Innovations and Sustainability is an open access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original scientific works, theoretical and practical articles that should contribute to the sustainable development.

Aims and Scope. This journal focuses on all aspects of innovations and sustainable development from the local to the global level. The main attention is paid to papers concerned with innovation activities, economic, environmental and social sustainability. The journal publishes papers in the following basic areas: economic sciences, social sciences, environmental sciences. The journal serves as an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of information and innovative views between academics and practitioners, NGOs and the community. It is focused on establishing cooperation between researchers, education institutions, policy-makers, government, regions, businesses and all others stakeholders to ensure sustainable development of society. See more Aims and Scope.

The journal is included in the reference list of the National center for information and documentation of the Republic of Bulgaria.

The journal is abstracted and/or indexed in: BASE, DOAJ, Electronic Journals Library, ERIH PLUS, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus, OpenAIRE, ResearchBib, Research Commons, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, WorldCat and other databases. See more Indexing.

Frequency: quarterly.

Abbreviated key-title: J. Innov. Sustain.

Language: English, Bulgarian, Ukrainian.

Founder: Innovations and Sustainability Academy

Publisher: Institute of Eastern European Research and Consulting

Media ID: R30-04292

The journal’s editorial board includes well-known scientists from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy, Kenya, Poland, Romania, Sri Lanka, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and USA.

License terms: this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licens 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors of articles published in this journal retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work.

Open-access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions. The journal is practicing a policy of open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Full-text access to scientific articles of the journal is presented on the official website in the Archives.

All marked answers the rules of the Committee on ethics in publications – Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

The journal’s editorial board has taken measures to ensure high ethical and professional standards based on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. See more Publication Ethics.

For publication on the website of the journal, articles are accepted daily. The publication conditions and requirements for articles are available in the section “Author Guidelines”.
We invite you to submit articles.

Announcements

About indexing in Research Commons on the Web of Science platform

2026-04-16

In September 2025, Clarivate expanded its platform content by creating a collection of open source journal publications Research Commons. This new database is hosted alongside the Web of Science Core Collection on the main Web of Science platform. Research Commons is not part of the Web of Science Core Collection and does not provide journals with official indexing status. At the same time, the presence of metadata in Research Commons is important for promoting content and improving the visibility of high-quality open access journals, and creates additional opportunities for increasing citations.

All articles of the Journal of Innovations and Sustainability are presented in the Research Commons database. Each article has a separate page with metadata. This provides publications with a wider audience and creates new opportunities for integration into the international scientific space.

We invite you to submit articles!

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