Design Studies
Last updated ISSN 0142-694X
Design Studies is published by Elsevier BV in engineering. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,570.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Design Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Design Education and Practice
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Product Development and Customization
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- BIM and Construction Integration
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0142-694X, 1872-6909 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,570 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,303 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/design-studies |
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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