Journal profile · HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry
ISSN 1756-9370 · eISSN 1756-9389 · Taylor & Francis
Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 165 days (first decision after review, publisher); acceptance rate 20% (journal website); 34 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Fashion and Cultural Textiles, Crafts, Textile, and Design and Cultural Industries and Urban Development, together about 61.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Marketing. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Fashion Practice is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to cover the full range of contemporary design and manufacture within the context of the fashion industry. Design processes and new technologies fuel the most vibrant areas of fashion practice and commerce today, and their dynamic evolution calls for focused intellectual inquiries and exploration. Fashion Practice provides a much-needed forum for topics ranging from design theory to the impact of technology, economics, politics, industry and consumer behaviour on fashion practice. Interdisciplinary and wide ranging, Fashion Practice addresses the entire field of fashion within both industry and academia including (but not limited to): innovation in fashion design and practice including concepts, materials, design and process sustainability and ethics within the industry applied and wearable technologies within the fashion context for “smart” textiles and clothing digital fashion such as 3D CAD (Computer-aided design), virtual, augmented or mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), and artificial intelligence (AI) inclusive design for diverse bodies, communities and cultures fashion consumption and production from retail/e-commerce to performance fashion new developments in retail experience and communication critical fashion research and practice The journal encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners working specifically within fashion/apparel, design and business departments, as well as those working on the creative industries from a broad range of cultural, social and political perspectives. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Sandy BlackPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Fashion and Cultural TextilesArts and Humanities30.9%
- Crafts, Textile, and DesignArts and Humanities19.2%
- Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentSocial Sciences11.1%
- Environmental Sustainability in BusinessBusiness, Management and Accounting5.6%
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationBusiness, Management and Accounting4.6%
- Consumer Retail Behavior StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting3.2%
- Innovative Human-Technology InteractionComputer Science2.8%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting2.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.56Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 30OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 115OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.98OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 9.68%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 105,000Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 105,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 420 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25 | 16 | 2 |
| 2025 | 34 | 9 | 31 |
| 2024 | 22 | 8 | 46 |
| 2023 | 16 | 10 | 116 |
| 2022 | 24 | 11 | 253 |
| 2021 | 41 | 6 | 291 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 2 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 136 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 136 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 165 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 165 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 47 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 47 daysPublisher website ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Gold open access publishing option available. Model summary
Fashion Practice is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis 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. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and reader…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review is conducted for open access articles. Model summary
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1756-9370
- Electronic ISSN
- 1756-9389
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 18, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry
What CAS zone is Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry is in Zone 4 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.5, h-index 30.
How long does peer review take at Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry?
The publisher reports about 165 days (first decision after review); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 20% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry open access, and what is the APC?
Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .