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Thank you for this design journal study.

Looking at table 2 I am wondering about a possible interpretation of the 
impact factors.

Irrespective of a particual journal the impact factors in 2009 are below 
the average 5-year impact factors. Thus, one could argue that the 
overall publication visibility of design research published in design 
journals decreases. Is this a valid interpretation? Or why is it flawed?

I am not specialist in this matter. Thus, I am seeking a proper 
understanding of the figures.

Thanks for a further clarification.

Best wishes
Claus Noppeney.

I am not have not done any

Am 24.10.11 03:52, schrieb Ken Friedman:
> 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.
>