Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture

Aims & Scope

Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture brings together the best critical work on the analysis of all types of spaces.

Interiors play a crucial role in the construction of identity and they represent power and control through the contestation or transgression of boundaries.

Homes, offices, shopping malls, schools and hospitals, churches and restaurants are all embedded with meaning and evince particular, multi-sensory and psychological responses.

This journal will investigate the complexities of the interior environment’s orchestration and composition and its impact on the inhabitant from a trans-disciplinary perspective.

The interior is the journal’s central focus and contributions from interior design practitioners and theorists are welcome.

It will embrace perspectives from a range of disciplines including anthropology, architecture, art and design history, cultural studies and visual culture, and it will place no limits in terms of either geography or chronology.

The journal sets out to challenge divisions between theory and practice and aims to provide an essential forum for all those with an interest in the design, history and meaning of interiors.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.107

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	8

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	28846

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	18

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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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.

• <i>Aemulatio</i>and the Interior Approach of Adaptive Reuse

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Bie, Koenraad

• Domesticating Television: Changing Attitudes in Postwar Britain

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Kathryn M.

• Possessions in the Homeless Shelter Experience: The Built Environment's Potential Role in Self-restoration

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Jill

• Adolf Loos and the Fashioning of “the Other”: Memory, Fashion, and Interiors

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Elana

• Scampering Sofas and “Skuttling” Tables: The Entertaining Interior

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Patricia

• Tuning the Space: Investigating the Making of Atmospheres through Interior Design Practices

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Mona

• Thinking beyond dualities in public space: the unfolding of urban interiority as a set of interdisciplinary lenses

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Tine, Els, Maarten

• The Modern Interior: A Space, a Place or a Matter of Taste?

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Penny

• Understanding the Home Workshop: Project Space, Project Time, and Material Interaction

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Andrew

• On the Unhomely Home: Porous and Permeable Interiors from Kierkegaard to Adorno

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Henriette

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