Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Computer-Aided Design and Applications is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Manufacturing Process and Optimization, Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, together about 42.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published by CAD Solutions LLC from 2019. Computer-Aided Design and Applications (CAD&A) is a world-leading journal in the field of CAD, publishing papers in both traditional areas as well as in new and emerging fields of the discipline, including theoretical papers but with special focus on the applied. Examples of topics published in CAD&A include, but are not limited to, the following: - artificial intelligence - bio-engineering - CAD education - CAD hardware - CAD in fashion - CAD in the arts and creative media - CAD in garment, shoe and jewellery design - collaborative, conceptual and feature based design - databases - data exchange - design computing - finite element methods - human factors - knowledge-based engineering - numerical control - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - reverse engineering - solid and heterogeneous modelling - standards - Web CAD - virtual reality Readership: Computer-Aided Design and Applications is aimed at researchers, academics, developers, technical and business managers, as well as members of relevant government sectors working in or responsible for the general area of CAD/CAM. Disciplines represented include various forms of engineering; industrial design and general manufacturing; many disciplines of science, e.g. mathematics, computer science and psychology; arts and creative design; bio-medical areas; CAD/CAM enterprises dealing with large scale product management, multi-national consulting and system building. The journal welcomes technical papers on new technologies and their implications; application papers on applications of existing techniques; survey papers on the state-of-the art in a particular sub-domain; review papers on current events/developments; and product demonstrations to keep readers up to date on important new products. Proposals for special issues in cutting-edge areas of Computer-Aided Design are encouraged, and should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind. Queries regarding submissions can be made by contacting the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final. For information on how to submit your article, please visit the CAD Solutions website. Sorry, there are currently no metrics available for this journal.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Computational Mechanics

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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EI CompendexPublisher website

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.7LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.25LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

53OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

550OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.85OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1686-4360

Latest issue on the website

Volume 15, Issue 6 (2018)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website