The global design journal study and rankings have now been published
online at Design Studies.
Gemser, Gerda, Cees de Bont, Paul Hekkert, and Ken Friedman. 2011.
"Quality Perceptions Of Design Journals: The Design Scholars’
Perspective." Design Studies. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2011.09.001
If you have online access through your library, you can get it by using
the link to the DOI.
Article title: Quality Perceptions Of Design Journals: The Design
Scholars’ Perspective
Reference: JDST630
Journal title: Design Studies
Corresponding author: Dr. Gerda Gemser
First author: Dr. Gerda Gemser
Online publication complete: 20-OCT-2011
DOI information: 10.1016/j.destud.2011.09.001
If you will be at IASDR 2011 in Delft, there will be a special session
on Quality Perceptions of Design Journals with
* Lin-Lin Chen, professor in the Department of Industrial and
Commercial Design at National Taiwan University of Science and
Technology and editor of International Journal of Design
* Nigel Cross, Emeritus Professor of Design Studies, Faculty of
Technology, at the UK's Open University and editor of Design Studies
* Paul Hekkert, professor of form theory at the Faculty of Industrial
Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, and a member of the
editorial board of The Design Journal, Empirical Studies of the Arts,
and the International Journal of Design
* Janet McDonnell, Associate Dean of Research at Central Saint Martins
and editor of CoDesign
The panel opens with a presentation by Cees De Bont, Dean of Industrial
Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology.
The panel moderator is Ken Friedman, Dean of the Faculty of Design,
Swinburne University of Technology
In this special session, we discuss the (perceived) ranking of design
journals within the academic field in general. We do so by means of a
forum discussion with editors and editorial design members of
established design journals. We will start our discussion by presenting
the findings of a worldwide survey on the quality of design journals as
perceived by design academics. With the forum members we subsequently
discuss the perceived quality of design journals relative to journals
from other academic fields. Relevant topics to be discussed are: the
antecedents and consequences of impact factors for design journals;
publication and citation strategies of design academics; the existence
and consequences of general design journals that publish articles in
design across the different sub-disciplines and specialized design
journals that focus on a design sub-discipline or specific field.
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