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Architectural Design is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. Published by Conde Nast Publications, Inc..
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ISSN 0003-8504Verify ISSN ↗1554-2769Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 160 / 697 | 77th | Q1 |
| Architecture | 113 / 210 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Architectural Design is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 160 of 697) and Q3 in Architecture (rank 113 of 210), by CiteScore 2025.
Architectural Design is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
Architectural Design is published by Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0003-8504 and its online ISSN is 1554-2769.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Architectural Design has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Architectural Design published 125 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 167. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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