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Design Science and Innovation is Scopus-indexed. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2509-5986Verify ISSN ↗2509-5994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Listed in Scopus, coverage 2025, but Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for this title — it may be newly indexed and not yet evaluated. Confirm its active status directly with Scopus before submitting.
Design Science and Innovation has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.
Design Science and Innovation is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2509-5986 and its online ISSN is 2509-5994.
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 Science and Innovation has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
Design Science and Innovation published 164 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 187. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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