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Design Principles and Practices is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Common Ground Research Networks.
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ISSN 1833-1874Verify ISSN ↗2473-5736Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 256 / 697 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2010–2012), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Design Principles and Practices is Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 256 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Design Principles and Practices 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 0.4, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.121, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Design Principles and Practices is published by Common Ground Research Networks. Its print ISSN is 1833-1874 and its online ISSN is 2473-5736.
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.
Design Principles and Practices has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Design Principles and Practices published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 17. 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 16 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.3%), Portugal (18.8%) and Italy (15.6%).
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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