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Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 1474-273XVerify ISSN ↗2040-0896Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 39 / 175 | 78th | Q1 |
| Communication | 315 / 541 | 41st | Q3 |
| Education | 1149 / 1698 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 39 of 175), Q3 in Communication (rank 315 of 541) and Q3 in Education (rank 1149 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.236, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1474-273X and its online ISSN is 2040-0896.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education published 28 papers in 2025. 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.
In its latest 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22.8%), United States (18.5%) and Australia (9.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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