About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Engineering Design is a leading international publication for dissemination of research across all areas of engineering design, focusing on design of engineered products and systems, as well as product realisation processes and fulfillment systems related to engineering disciplines such as industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, operations engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, and engineering management.
The Journal publishes pioneering research and best practices on the principles of design, as well as design management, techniques and methodologies, rather than specific domain applications. Papers can be focused on fundamental research leading to new methods or adaptation and synthesis of existing methods for new problem formulations.
Submissions can take the form of original research contributions, technical notes or perspectives/editorials from all areas of engineering design. The journal also publishes state-of-the-art review and positioning papers. All articles are reviewed by independent expert referees.
We welcome papers that examine diverse topics within the scope of the journal, including, but not limited to:
- Design theory and methodology, including foundations of design theory; design rationale; creativity and innovation in engineering; marketing-engineering interface; design synthesis; design cognition; models of design processes; design ideation; product cost and design economics; product families, platforms and reuse in engineering; configuration design; as well as resilience, reliability and robustness in engineering design.
- Design automation and computational support, including knowledge and information management in engineering; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; design representation and languages; semantics in design of products, services and processes; generative design; feature-based design; shape grammars; product data management; virtual prototyping; cyber physical system prototyping; digital thread and digital twins; extended reality (XR); geometric design; engineering informatics; data-driven and data-informed design; machine learning and artificial intelligence in design; symbolic computing for design; simulation-based design; design decision support systems; augmented intelligence and design; integrated intelligent design environments; and big data analytics for design.
- Design optimisation and decision science, including design evaluation; engineering optimisation; multi-disciplinary optimisation; multi-attribute decision making; design decisions under uncertainty; reliability-based design; shape and topology optimisation; decision-based design; preference modeling; design for market systems; and behavioral economics in design.
- Design of product realisation systems with focus on planning, optimisation, control and management of processes, fulfillment and systems, including systems design and design complexity; integrated engineering design development; manufacturing systems design; design for changeable and reconfigurable production systems; supply chain design; design for logistics; operations engineering design; service delivery system design; integrated product and process development; global and distributed engineering design; and multi/inter/trans-disciplinary engineering design.
- Human frontiers in design, including engineering design aesthetics, style and form; emotive design and Kansei engineering; inclusive design and universal design; industrial design engineering and total design; user experience design; integration of customers in product/process design; user-centered design; behavioral design and smart nudging; multi-modal perception and psychology in design; ambience intelligence for human factors design; future of work at the human-technology frontier; workplace design; design collaboration and teamwork; creative behavior; design culture; and the design process of ergonomics.
- Design for product lifecycle and sustainability, including DFX (manufacturability, assembly, production, quality, maintenance, remanufacture, recycling, reuse, end-of-life); design for additive manufacturing; design for prognostic health management; sustainable/green/ecofriendly design; design considering carbon emissions and energy consumption; and design for circular economy.
- Design management and systems engineering, including collaborative design in engineering; design project planning and workflow management; requirement engineering; new product development and introduction process; product quality management and improvement; product lifecycle management; evolutionary design activities in engineering; model-based systems engineering; risk management; system of systems; as well as best practice and empirical studies.
- New and emerging engineering design trends, including smart and connected products; product-service systems; innovation design, product ecosystem design; inverse problem solving in design; design for digital transformation; design as strategic engineering; design and operation of human-cyber-physical systems (e.g., smart mobility or smart factories); design with smart sensing and AI technologies; design in Industry 4.0 and 5.0; product servitisation and XaaS (anything-as-a-service); design in the metaverse and Web3; platformisation for the sharing economy; open innovation and co-creation; crowdsourcing design; as well as digitalization and product development cycle.
- Design education, including design education and pedagogy in engineering; design thinking and design doing; complex sociotechnical systems; public policy design; design engineering epistemologies; design learning mechanisms and learning systems; design ethics; design diversity, equity and inclusivity; as well as design education assessment methods, instruments, and metrics.
- Design research methodology, including qualitative, quantitative, observational, participative and retrospective methods for investigating; verification and validation; and evaluating design processes, methods and tools, at the strategic as well as tactical levels.
All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous double anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees. Submissions can take the form of quality original research contributions as well as book reviews from all the major disciplines of engineering design.
Visit our Instructions for Authors page for information on preparing your manuscript.
Author benefits
We are abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index, Scopus and more.
The Journal of Engineering Design is endorsed by the Design Society meaning your research will be available to all their members.
The prestigious and experienced members of our international Editorial Board will guide you from submission to publication.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 93K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.045 (2023) SNIP
- 0.603 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 1 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 60 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 18% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief:
Roger Jiao – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Managing Editors:
Johan Malmqvist – Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Jianxi Luo – Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
Senior Editors:
Jonathan Cagan - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jingshan Li – Tsinghua University, China
Ying Liu – Cardiff University, UK
Soh Khim Ong – National University of Singapore, Singapore
Timothy Simpson – Pennsylvania State University, USA
Joshua Summers – University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Amy J.C. Trappey – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Bernard Yannou – Centrale Supelec, France
Chris Zhang – University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Associate Editors:
Shikui Chen - State University of New York at Stonybrook, USA
Chih-Hsing Chu - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Scott Ferguson - North Carolina State University, USA
Petri Helo - University of Vaasa, Finland
Katja Hölttä-Otto - University of Melbourne, Australia
Ajay Joneja - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Carman K.M. Lee - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Seung Ki Moon - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Antonella Petrillo - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Jitesh Panchal - Purdue University, USA
Charlie C. L. Wang - University of Manchester, UK
Chengen Wang - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Changxu Wu - Tsinghua University, China
Ali Yassine - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Chunyang Yu - China Academy of Art, China
Yong Zeng - Concordia University, Canada
Linda L. Zhang - IESEG School of Management, France
Feng Zhou - University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA
Advisory Board:
Alain Bernard - Ecole Cent Nantes, France
Luciënne T.M. Blessing - Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
John Clarkson - University of Cambridge, UK
Hoda ElMaraghy - University of Windsor, Canada
Peihua Gu - Tianjin University, China
Imre Horvath - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
George Huang - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Andrew Kusiak - University of Iowa, USA
Stephen C.-Y. Lu - University of Southern California, USA
Dimitris Mourtzis - University of Patras, Greece
Andrew Nee - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Panos Papalambros - University of Michigan, USA
Frank Piller - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
David Rosen - Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Tetsuo Tomiyama - International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo, Japan
Kristin Wood - University of Colorado Denver, USA
Book Editor:
Chris McMahon - University of Bristol, UK
Editorial Board:
Nabil Anwer - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Sacla, France
Anton Basson - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Julian Booker - University of Bristol, UK
Monica Bordegoni - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Rafael A. Calvo - Imperial College London, UK
Gaetano Cascini - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Amaresh Chakrabarti - Indian Institute of Science, India
Chun-Hsien Chen - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hae-Jin Choi - Chung-Ang University, Korea
Shuo-Yan Chou - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Nathan Crilly - University of Cambridge, UK
Ming Dong - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Claudia Eckert - Open University, UK
Boris Eisenbart - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Benoit Eynard - Universite de Technologie Compiegne, France
Georgi Georgiev - University of Oulu, Finland
Kilian Gericke - University of Rostock, Germany
Wei Guo - Tianjin University, China
Xin Guo - Sichuan University, China
Liang Hou - Xiamen University, China
Sean Hanna - University College London, UK
Zhen Hu - University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA
Yangjian Ji - Zhejiang University, China
Pingyu Jiang - Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Tero Juuti - Tampere University, Finland
Kyoung-yun Joseph Kim - Wayne State University, USA
Michael Kokkolaras - McGill University, Canada
Mattias Kreimeyer - University of Stuttgart, Germany
Tobias Larsson - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ang Liu - University of New South Wales, Australia
Xin Lin - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jiyin Liu - Loughborough University, UK
Yuqian Lu - University of Auckland, New Zealand
Xinggang Luo - Hongzhou Dianzi University, China
Anja Maier - University of Strathclyde, UK
Alison McKay, University of Leeds, UK
Chris McMahon - University of Bristol, UK
Beshoy Morkos - University of Georgia, USA
Giovanni Moroni - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Niels Henrik Mortensen - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Yohanes Kristianto Nugroho - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Nikolaos Papakostas - University College Dublin, Ireland
Hyungwook Park - Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Jean-Francois Petiot - Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Daniella Pigosso - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Yoram Reich - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dirk Schaefer - University of Lincoln, UK
Shana Smith - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Martin Steinert - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Mario Storga - University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ashutosh Tiwari - University of Sheffield, UK
Zuoxu Wang - Beihang University, China
Kelvin KL Wong - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
David Wynn - University of Auckland, New ZealandRenbin Xiao - Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Yi Xiong - Southern University of Technology and Science, China
Deyi Xue - University of Calgary, Canada
Dong Yang - Donghua University, China
Zhixin Yang - University of Macau, Macau
Myung Hwan Yun - Seoul National University, Korea
Pai Zheng - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Joseph Yuan Zhou - Tsinghua University, China
Honorary Editors-in-Chief:
Derek Sheldon – Anglia Ruskin University, UK (Founding Editor, 1990-2006)
Alex Duffy – University of Strathclyde, UK (2006-2022)
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of Engineering Design is abstracted and indexed in: British Library Inside, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; EBSCO Databases; Electronic Collections Online; INSPEC®; ISI Current Contents® - Engineering, Computing & Technology; ISI Science Citation Index®; New Jour; OCLC ArticleFirst; PerAbs; Recent Advances in Manufacturing Database (RAM); Scopus™ and Zetoc.
Open access
Journal of Engineering Design is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
- Special subscription rate of US$99/£60 for members of Institution of Engineering Designers. Contact +44 (0)20 7017 5543 or [email protected]
- Special subscription rate for members of The Design Society. Please see the Society Information page for more details.
Society information
Members of the following society are eligible for a discounted personal print subscription to the Journal of Engineering Design :
Institution of Engineering Designers
Members of the Institution of Engineering Designers please contact +44 (0)20 8052 0501 or [email protected] to subscribe.
Members of The Design Society will need to contact the society directly to organise their discounted subscription. Email [email protected] for more information.
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