This page provides links to journals that may be of use to those working in
Integration and Implementation Sciences. The alphabetical list
immediately below can be used to move through the journals on this page.
We encourage members who may have an idea for a resource of relevance to I2S
to add such a resource to the resource library (currently
the type of resources we cater for are associations, journals, readings or online articles).
Summary: 'The Academy of Management Journal focuses on empirical research, of essentially any form (quantitative, qualitative, extensive, longitudinal, experimental, etc), regarding management practice and theory.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Other
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Academy of Management Learning and Education (go to top of page)
Summary: 'The Academy of Management Perspectives focuses on improving the practice of management, notably through explaining research outcomes, especially to leading management thinkers, in lay terms and reporting on empirical work surrounding management and business.'
Integration Approach: Research/policy/practice nexus, Other
Area: Innovation and business, Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Summary: 'A journal focused on ALARA (Action Learning, Action Research Association) activities as well as providing short articles on issues informing action learning, action research and process management. '
Publisher: Johnson School of Management (Cornell University, NY, USA).
Issues Per Year: 4.
Started: 1955.
Impact Factor: 3.405 (2004).
Summary: 'An interdisciplinary journal focused on theoretical and broad ranging empirical research (quantitative, qualitative, extensive, longitudinal, experimental, etc) into organisations.'
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus, Other
Area: Innovation and business, Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Advances in Complex Systems: A Multidisciplinary Quarterly Journal (go to top of page)
Summary: 'A journal with a multi-disciplinary focus, utilising empirical and/or theoretical insights, that cross the sciences as a whole in order to understanding complex systems.'
Summary: 'Focused on public administration, policy and management, the Australian Journal of Public Administration publishes a wide selection of articles on topics that fit within an integrative framework.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus
Area: Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Online) (go to top of page)
Summary: 'An interdisciplinary journal that covers the behavioural sciences generally (psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, artifical intelligence, linguistics, etc) and reaches out into the humanities to include philosophy. Somewhat differently to most journals, BBS is focued on ‘open peer commentary’ whereby BBS publishes refereed articles that are responded to by (a dozen or more) specialists from fields/disciplines that the article covers (in terms of return commentary, analysis, critique, synthesis, etc). '
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Other
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Bulletin Interactif du CIRET (Transdisciplinary Encounters) (go to top of page)
Summary: 'This journal is interdisciplinary within the social sciences, and covers theory, empirical research, policy and practice with an emphasis on employing methods that drive social change.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus
Summary: 'This journal focuses on complex adaptive systems and it has a cross-disciplinary approach that is open to the natural and social sciences, albeit (seemingly) with a stronger focus on the natural sciences.'
Integration Approach: Complexity science, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Systems thinking
Publisher: Critical Review Foundation (Idaho, USA).
Issues Per Year: 4.
Started: 1986.
Impact Factor: 0.227 (2004).
Summary: 'An interdisciplinary journal focused on modern society, the state and the individual and which encourages broad ranging debate on politics, culture and society'
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity
Area: Society/behaviour/culture
Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics (go to top of page)
Summary: 'This journal focuses on bridging the fragmentation of knowledge across the sciences, social sciences and humanities, attempting to build links between theory, practice, aesthetics and ethics through developing understanding in and of cybernetics'
Integration Approach: Complexity science, Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Summary: 'Ecological economics, as the name suggests, is a trans-disciplinary journal that brings together research and reflection on ecology and economics from across the natural and social sciences'
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Summary: 'A journal focused on overcoming the split of research from practice in educational contexts, notably through participatory and action research activities'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Participatory methods, Research/policy/practice nexus
Area: Education, Society/behaviour/culture
Emergence: Complexity & Organization (go to top of page)
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence.
Issues Per Year: 4.
Started: 1999.
Impact Factor: Nil.
Summary: 'An interdisciplinary journal focused on complexity science in relation to human organisations, that aims to bring together academic and practice perspectives to improve organisational effectiveness.'
Integration Approach: Complexity science, Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Innovation and business, Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture
European Journal of Information Systems (go to top of page)
Summary: 'With a European focus, the EJIS covers the theoretical and practical aspects of information systems, including issues surrounding technology, development, implementation, strategy, management and policy.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Knowledge management, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Society/behaviour/culture
Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice (go to top of page)
Summary: 'Evaluation is an interdisciplinary journal that aims to broaden dialogue across the social sciences in regards to evaluation theory, research and practice as well as across the various evaluation traditions.'
Summary: 'Foresight is a journal focused on encouraging debate about social, economic, political and technological issues within the context of futures studies. '
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Innovation and business, Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture
Summary: 'A journal focused on methodological and philosophical issues dealing with the foundations of science. It explores the sciences broadly, investigating the disciplines and also the new ways in which science is conducted and reasoned out, such as in the interdisciplinary areas of cultural studies and cybernetics for instance.'
Integration Approach: Complexity science, Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Systems thinking
Area: Environment, Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (go to top of page)
Summary: 'Futures is a multi-disciplinary journal that investigates issues in culture, society, science, technology, economics, politics, environment and people generally, all within the context of futures studies. '
Summary: 'Human Relations is an inter-disciplinary journal focused on drawing together theory and practice from across the social sciences in order to broaden understanding of human problems and with an eye on social action.'
Summary: 'An interdisciplinary journal that focuses on science and technology in the context of culture and which draws upon the social sciences, physical sciences, humanities and arts'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Participatory methods, Research/policy/practice nexus, Other
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
International Journal of Conflict Management (go to top of page)
Summary: 'An interdisciplinary journal focused on general systems theory and practice across the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities, although generally with a strong emphasis on modelling, simulation and technical works. '
Integration Approach: Complexity science, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Systems thinking
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (go to top of page)
Summary: 'Within an interdisciplinary context, this journal investigates the theory and practice of interactive systems. There is a strong focus on the interaction between people and computing systems.'
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Systems thinking, Other
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
International Journal of Social Research Methodology (go to top of page)
Publisher: (United States) National Academy of Sciences.
Issues Per Year: 4.
Started: 1996.
Impact Factor: 0.531 (2004).
Summary: 'An interdisciplinary publication with the specific aim of influencing policy in relation to science, both in regards how science is supported by policy and as science within policy processes generally. Issues in Science & Technology is strongly focused on the USA, but has a wide remit covering science and technology with a further focus on practice.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus
Area: Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Journal of Consciousness Studies (go to top of page)
Summary: 'The Journal of Consciousness Studies has a broad, interdisciplinary focus on consciousness. It has a non-technical approach in regards language used and submissions are accepted from all disciplines.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity
Publisher: The International Association for Critical Realism and Brill.
Issues Per Year: 2.
Started: 1997.
Impact Factor: Nil.
Summary: 'JCR supports thinking and practical, empirical work on critical realism (drawing strongly from Roy Bhaskar’s philosophical work). Critical realism is transformative of scientific practice and thinking, based on an emancipatory and integrative philosophical framing which seeks a form of unity between the natural and social sciences. '
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity
Summary: 'A journal that focuses on information science and accepts theoretical, practice, and policy focused work from a broad set of disciplines on that topic.'
Integration Approach: Knowledge management, Systems thinking
Area: Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences (go to top of page)
Summary: 'OTSC focuses on organisational/social change. It publishes research on the interrelationship between organisational behaviour and socio-cultural structures and covers such topic areas as management, business, education and systems thinking. It publishes theoretical and empirical work, including methodological pieces and is open to diverse ways of knowing. '
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Knowledge management, Participatory methods, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Education, Innovation and business, Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture
Publisher: Int’l Consortium for Advancement of Academic Publication.
Issues Per Year: 2.
Started: 2005.
Impact Factor: Nil.
Summary: 'This journal focuses on investigating research in practice. It links research context, researchers’ lives and broader social and institutional issues with the challenges and practices inherent to research. In this, the journal is not restricted to any one discipline and explicitly encourages innovation in the understanding and practice of research.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Other
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Journal of Technology Transfer (go to top of page)
Summary: 'Kybernetes is an interdisciplinary journal focused on securing sound scientific foundations for cybernetics, alongside providing a place for wide ranging study into cybernetics and general systems'
Integration Approach: Complexity science, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Systems thinking
Summary: 'Policy & Politics is a multi-disciplinary journal focused on public policy, with an aim of bridging the theory and practice divide across a broad range of policy areas'
Summary: 'Policy Sciences is an interdisciplinary journal that covers philosophy, theory and practice regarding policy science and policy issues generally. The journal is committed to Harold D. Lasswell's (1902-1978) vision of the policy sciences.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus
Area: Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture
Publisher: Blackwell and the American Society for Public Administration.
Issues Per Year: 6.
Started: 1940.
Impact Factor: 0.861 (2004).
Summary: 'Public Administration Review focuses on researchers and practitioners involved with the public sector. The journal offers a wide selection of topics and research issues. It has a strong US flavour.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus
Area: Policy and government, Society/behaviour/culture
Summary: 'Public Management Review focuses on public management broadly, but most specifically on the 'new public management' paradigm. It is cross-national, inter-sectoral (between public, non-profit and for-profit organisations), critical, practical and interdisciplinary. '
Summary: 'Research Policy is a multidisciplinary journal with a focus on the acquisition of knowledge and its exploitation (notably around innovation) as contextualised by economic, social, political and institutional processes. The journal has both an empirical and theoretical focus, accepting written work from academics and practitioners.'
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Innovation and business, Society/behaviour/culture
Publisher: Sage on behalf of Society for Social Studies of Science.
Issues Per Year: 4.
Started: 1975.
Impact Factor: 1.231 (2004).
Summary: 'Science, Technology & Human Values focuses on the interactions between human society, science and technology through interdisciplinary empirical, theoretical and philosophical analyses.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Other
Summary: 'Social Studies of Science is a multidisciplinary journal focused on the social aspects of science and technology, whether theoretical or empirical.'
Summary: 'This journal focuses on the use of system dynamics in a wide range of problems (societal, technical, managerial and environmental). The journal has a wide remit covering natural and social sciences, although there is an emphasis on modelling, simulation and technical work generally. '
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Systems thinking
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Systemic Practice and Action Research (go to top of page)
Summary: 'A journal focused on critical systems thinking for studying the complexities of modern society. There is a strong practice based perspective in the journal with a broad acceptance of diverse ways of knowing.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Participatory methods, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Society/behaviour/culture
Systems Research & Behavioral Science (go to top of page)
Summary: 'This journal focuses on living and non-living systems. It is interdisciplinary, accepts both empirical and theoretical works and is open to the natural and social sciences generally.'
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (go to top of page)
Summary: 'Techné is a journal for the philosophical investigation of technology. It is not restricted to any one branch or approach in philosophy and deals with not only the material aspects of technology but also with the social systems and people involved.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Technological Forecasting and Social Change (go to top of page)
Summary: 'A journal focused on forecasting and future studies. Broad approach to social, environmental and technological inter-relationships through theory and empirical research.'
Integration Approach: Diverse epistemologies, Research/policy/practice nexus, Systems thinking
Area: Environment, Innovation and business, Society/behaviour/culture
Publisher: Intntl Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publications.
Issues Per Year: 2.
Started: 2000.
Impact Factor: Nil.
Summary: 'This journal focuses on the nature of theory, science and social change. It has an interdisciplinary stance and seeks to provide a forum for dialogue across the sciences. '
Integration Approach: Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Other
Area: Society/behaviour/culture, Other
Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory (go to top of page)
Summary: 'World Futures focuses on evolutionary (in this case meaning irreversible, nonlinear, system-structuring) change in nature and society. It is a broadly based journal open to any of the sciences. '
Integration Approach: Complexity science, Diverse epistemologies, Inter-/trans-disciplinarity, Systems thinking
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