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Archives of Design Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1). Published by Korean Society of Design Science.
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ISSN 1226-8046Verify ISSN ↗2288-2987Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Design Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 96 / 697 | 86th | Q1 |
| Architecture | 94 / 210 | 55th | Q2 |
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 98 / 131 | 25th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Archives of Design Research is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 96 of 697), Q2 in Architecture (rank 94 of 210) and Q3 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 98 of 131), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Design Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1, 86th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.208, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 13.
Archives of Design Research is published by Korean Society of Design Science. Its print ISSN is 1226-8046 and its online ISSN is 2288-2987.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archives of Design Research has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Archives of Design Research published 84 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 89. 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.
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