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Journal of Design and Built Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2), DOAJ. Published by University of Malaya.
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ISSN 1823-4208Verify ISSN ↗2232-1500Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Malaya
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 85 / 210 | 59th | Q2 |
| Urban Studies | 165 / 295 | 44th | Q3 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 166 / 231 | 28th | Q3 |
| Building and Construction | 188 / 258 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Design and Built Environment is Q2 in Architecture (rank 85 of 210), Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 165 of 295) and Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 166 of 231), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Design and Built Environment 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 1.2, quartile Q2, 59th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.250, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Journal of Design and Built Environment is published by University of Malaya. Its print ISSN is 1823-4208 and its online ISSN is 2232-1500.
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.
Journal of Design and Built Environment has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #84 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Journal of Design and Built Environment published 62 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (45.7%), Indonesia (18.9%) and India (7.2%).
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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