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Design Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 2053-4701Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 7 / 697 | 99th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 68 / 397 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Engineering (all) | 74 / 351 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Design Science is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 7 of 697), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 68 of 397) and Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 74 of 351), by CiteScore 2025.
Design Science 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.770, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Design Science is published by Cambridge University Press. Its ISSN is 2053-4701.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Design Science has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 4.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Design Science published 54 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.6%), Germany (9.3%) and United Kingdom (8.7%).
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 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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