Information Design Journal

Aims & Scope

Information Design Journal (IDJ) is a peer-reviewed international journal that bridges the gap between research and practice in information design.

IDJ is a platform for discussing and improving the design, usability, and overall effectiveness of ‘content put into form’ — of verbal and visual messages shaped to meet the needs of particular audiences.

IDJ offers a forum for sharing ideas about the verbal, visual, and typographic design of print and online documents, multimedia presentations, illustrations, signage, interfaces, maps, quantitative displays, websites, and new media.

IDJ brings together ways of thinking about creating effective communications for use in contexts such as workplaces, hospitals, airports, banks, schools, or government agencies.

On the one hand, IDJ explores the design of information, with a focus on writing, the visual design, structure, format, and style of communications.

On the other hand, IDJ seeks to better understand the ways that people understand, interpret, and use communications, with a focus on audiences, cultural differences, readers’ expectations, and differences between populations such as teenagers, elderly or the blind.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• News framing

  Citation: 824

  Authors: Claes H.

• Towards a semiotics of typography

  Citation: 183

  Authors: Theo

• Creative data literacy

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Catherine

• Reading images

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Gunther

• Research Challenges: Research challenges in narrative persuasion

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Melanie C.

• Website hierarchy and the interaction between content organization, webpage and navigation design: A systemic functional hypermedia discourse analysis perspective

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Emilia

• Displaying multi-domain graphical databases

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Paul, Christopher D.

• The graphic presentation of language

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Michael

• Linguistics markers of coherence improve text comprehension in functional contexts

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Ted, Jentine, Gerben

• Designing with a 2½D attitude

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Colin