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Design Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.8), ABDC A, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0142-694XVerify ISSN ↗1872-6909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 8 / 692 | 98th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 6 / 286 | 98th | Q1 |
| Architecture | 5 / 210 | 97th | Q1 |
| Engineering (all) | 19 / 351 | 94th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 110 / 1022 | 89th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 70 / 570 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.8.
Design Studies is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 8 of 692), Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 6 of 286) and Q1 in Architecture (rank 5 of 210), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Design Studies is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 11.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.202, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 123.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,570 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 Studies is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0142-694X and its online ISSN is 1872-6909.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Design Studies has an h-index of 149 and a 2-year mean of 4.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Design Studies published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 58. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (12.6%), Australia (12.5%) and China (8.9%).
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.
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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