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Journal of Design, Business and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8). Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 2055-2106Verify ISSN ↗2055-2114Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 46 / 697 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 228 / 1434 | 84th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 252 / 425 | 40th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 323 / 456 | 29th | 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 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Design, Business and Society is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 46 of 697), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 228 of 1434) and Q3 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 252 of 425), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Design, Business and Society 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 1.8, quartile Q1, 93rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Design, Business and Society is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2055-2106 and its online ISSN is 2055-2114.
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.
Journal of Design, Business and Society has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #157 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Journal of Design, Business and Society published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 22. 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 41 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Australia (22.4%), United States (16.3%) and United Kingdom (13.8%).
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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