Design Science
Last updated ISSN 2053-4701
Design Science is published by Cambridge University Press in engineering. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Design Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Design Education and Practice
- Product Development and Customization
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Color perception and design
- Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2053-4701 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 361 |
| Publishing since | 1996 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=DSJ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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