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Design Research Foundations is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2366-4622Verify ISSN ↗2366-4630Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 385 / 697 | 44th | Q3 |
| Media Technology | 65 / 83 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Architecture | 173 / 210 | 17th | Q4 |
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 124 / 131 | 5th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–2025 (also 2022, 2017–2020), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Design Research Foundations is Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 385 of 697), Q4 in Media Technology (rank 65 of 83) and Q4 in Architecture (rank 173 of 210), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Design Research Foundations 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Design Research Foundations is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2366-4622 and its online ISSN is 2366-4630.
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 Research Foundations has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #225 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Design Research Foundations published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 26. 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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