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Springer Series in Design and Innovation is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2661-8184Verify ISSN ↗2661-8192Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 230 / 295 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 587 / 744 | 21st | Q4 |
| Communication | 444 / 541 | 18th | Q4 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 291 / 317 | 8th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Springer Series in Design and Innovation is Q4 in Urban Studies (rank 230 of 295), Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 587 of 744) and Q4 in Communication (rank 444 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Springer Series in Design and Innovation 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Springer Series in Design and Innovation is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2661-8184 and its online ISSN is 2661-8192.
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.
Springer Series in Design and Innovation has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #195 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Springer Series in Design and Innovation published 550 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 558. 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.
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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