OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Design Studies is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	90
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	69
Editorial: Design Research Notes	50
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	45
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada	44
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	36
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	33
Editorial Board	33
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	29
Editorial Board	28
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	28
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	27
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	26
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	25
There is no such thing as strategic design	22
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	22
Acknowledgement of Referees	22
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	22
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	21
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	21
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	20