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Design Issues is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS AHCI. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 0747-9360Verify ISSN ↗1531-4790Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 217 / 692 | 68th | Q2 |
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 83 / 131 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Design Issues is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 217 of 692) and Q3 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 83 of 131), by CiteScore 2025.
Design Issues 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.149, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 50.
Design Issues is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 0747-9360 and its online ISSN is 1531-4790.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Design Issues has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #183 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Design Issues published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 56. 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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