Much design research is interdisciplinary, so one must give due consideration to journal articles in the serious journals of other fields.

For the best academic presses and university press book publishers, we’d suggest using the Norwegian list — now the common Nordic list. You’ll find more information here.

The best (level 2) book publishers follow:

• 2 Mohr Siebeck
• 2 Presses Universitaires de France
• 2 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• 2 C.H. Beck
• 2 Verlag J. B. Metzler
• 2 Universitätsverlag Winter
• 2 Wallstein Verlag
• 2 Palgrave Macmillan
• 2 Intersentia
• 2 Edition text + kritik 
• 2 James Currey Publishers
• 2 I.B. Tauris 
• 2 Praeger 
• 2 Verso 
• 2 Falmer Press
• 2 Berg Publishers
• 2 Berghahn Books
• 2 Blackwell Verlag
• 2 Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• 2 Cambridge University Press
• 2 Brepols 
• 2 Brill Academic Publishers
• 2 Duculot 
• 2 Duke University Press
• 2 Columbia University Press
• 2 Edward Elgar Publishing
• 2 Cornell University Press
• 2 Duckworth 
• 2 Edinburgh University Press 
• 2 Equinox Publishing
• 2 Frank Cass Publishers
• 2 Franz Steiner Verlag
• 2 Honoré Champion
• 2 IKO Verlag
• 2 Harrassowitz Verlag
• 2 Hart Publishing Ltd
• 2 Harvard University Press
• 2 Kluwer Law International
• 2 John Benjamins Publishing Company
• 2 Johns Hopkins University Press
• 2 M. E. Sharpe 
• 2 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• 2 Librairie Droz 
• 2 Max Niemeyer
• 2 Multilingual Matters
• 2 MIT Press 
• 2 Brill Nijhoff 
• 2 Motilal Banarsidass
• 2 Mouton de Gruyter 
• 2 Ox Bow Press 
• 2 Princeton University Press
• 2 Brill Rodopi
• 2 Stanford University Press
• 2 Stauffenburg Verlag
• 2 RoutledgeFalmer 
• 2 Suhrkamp 
• 2 Syracuse University Press
• 2 Sage Publications 
• 2 University of Chicago Press
• 2 University of Hawai’i Press
• 2 University of Michigan Press
• 2 University of Minnesota Press
• 2 University of British Columbia Press
• 2 University of California Press
• 2 University of Washington Press
• 2 Walter de Gruyter 
• 2 Wilhelm Fink Verlag
• 2 Yale University Press
• 2 Waxmann Verlag 
• 2 Boydell & Brewer
• 2 Polity Press
• 2 Pendragon Press 
• 2 University of Pennsylvania Press
• 2 Manchester University Press
• 2 Ashgate 
• 2 Intellect Ltd.
• 2 Mentis Verlag GmbH
• 2 Peeters Publishers 
• 2 Oxford University Press
• 2 PrenticeHall
• 2 LIT Verlag 
• 2 Zed Books 
• 2 AltaMira Press 
• 2 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• 2 Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• 2 Routledge