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International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1). Published by Common Ground Research Networks.
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ISSN 2325-162XVerify ISSN ↗2325-1638Verify 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 | 113 / 697 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Architecture | 97 / 210 | 54th | Q2 |
| Urban Studies | 180 / 295 | 39th | Q3 |
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 1.
International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 113 of 697), Q2 in Architecture (rank 97 of 210) and Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 180 of 295), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice 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 1, quartile Q1, 83rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.199, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 6.
International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice is published by Common Ground Research Networks. Its print ISSN is 2325-162X and its online ISSN is 2325-1638.
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 Management and Professional Practice has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 20. 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 21 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Italy (19%), South Korea (9.5%) and Thailand (9.5%).
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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