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Journal of Design Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1569-1551Verify ISSN ↗1748-3050Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 102 / 131 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 248 / 300 | 17th | 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 2006–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Design Research is Q4 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 102 of 131) and Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 248 of 300), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Design Research 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 0.9, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.151, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 26.
Journal of Design Research is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1569-1551 and its online ISSN is 1748-3050.
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 Research has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 100 Scopus journals in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.
Journal of Design Research published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 36. 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 59 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (14.4%), Türkiye (10.2%) and Canada (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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