RRIS is a mutlidisciplinary scholarly journal of innovative research that challenges status quo, shifts the frontier of knowledge and scientific thinking in a given field, and bring about demonstrable advancement in society. Entries also include special reports, proceedings, and activities of panels and roundtables of community initiatives as well as whitepapers for community and social development.
Aims
The journal aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Be a premier resource for works that transform and advance society or works with great potential to bring about development, transformation and advancement.
- Be a vehicle for development and social transformation.
- Enable scholar and funder visibility through professional and creative publishing practices.
- Be a leaderboard for agents of developemnt and social translation.
Scope
RRIS publishes studies which are interdisciplinary in method, demonstrate actionable innovation, and/or which are at the frontier of research in the subject matter. To be accpeted within this scope, a paper MUST meet the following criteria:
- Fills a knowledge gap in a given field or subject matter.
- Demonstrably and convincingly pushes the frontier of research in the subject matter.
- Brings to light an innovation upon a existing practical idea.
- Makes SMART executable recommendations with clear, simple, step-by-step guide to realizing the goal.
- If recommendations are at the level of researcher and/or funder to implement, they must demonstrate practical measures in place for implementation.
- If recommendations are at the level of other stakeholders (for example, governments, NGO, communities, other external entities) to implement, paper must demonstrate measures in place to engage the stakeholders into implementing the recommendation.
Vision
We aspire to be the premier repository for works with the most transformational scientific and social impact.
Mission
The Repository of Innovation and Studies is on a mission to liberalize and decentralize scholar visibility. Our approach is to inpsire researchers by removing unnecessary barriers to publication, including financial barriers and malicious gatekeeping in knowldge production and dissemination.
Frequency
Reviewed papers are published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Beginning in 2026, a Special Issue will be published every September
Peer-review
Prior to publication in RRIS, papers are first placed on a thorough two-step editorial and double-anonymous peer-review process which is structured as follows.
Publisher
RRIS is published jointly by the Royal Family Innovation and Study Hub and the Refuge University Network (an initiative of the Paul Awan Initiative for Development).