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International Journal of Design Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Common Ground Research Networks.
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ISSN 2325-128XVerify ISSN ↗2325-1298Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 141 / 697 | 79th | Q1 |
| Education | 1301 / 1698 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
International Journal of Design Education is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 141 of 697) and Q4 in Education (rank 1301 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Design Education 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 0.8, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.251, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
International Journal of Design Education is published by Common Ground Research Networks. Its print ISSN is 2325-128X and its online ISSN is 2325-1298.
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.
International Journal of Design Education has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #84 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
International Journal of Design Education published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 38. 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 65 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (15.4%), United States (11.5%) and Portugal (8.5%).
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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