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Designs for Learning is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), DOAJ. Published by Stockholm University Press.
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ISSN 2001-7480Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 125 / 1434 | 91st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 176 / 1221 | 85th | Q1 |
| Communication | 163 / 541 | 69th | Q2 |
| Education | 637 / 1698 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Ecology | 212 / 491 | 56th | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 186 / 380 | 51st | Q2 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 122 / 196 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2019–2023), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Designs for Learning is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 125 of 1434), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 176 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 163 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Designs for Learning 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 3, quartile Q1, 91st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.507, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$551 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.
Designs for Learning is published by Stockholm University Press. Its ISSN is 2001-7480.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Designs for Learning has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #113 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Designs for Learning published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 15. 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 31 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Sweden (46.8%), Denmark (17.7%) and Norway (6.5%).
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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