OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Design Studies is 11. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	78
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	60
Editorial: Design Research Notes	42
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	42
Editorial Board	34
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	34
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	31
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	27
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	27
Editorial Board	26
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	25
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	25
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	24
Acknowledgement of Referees	23
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	22
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	21
There is no such thing as strategic design	20
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	19
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	18
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	17
Inspiration for styling tasks	16
Editorial Board	16
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16

Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	16
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	15
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	15
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	14
Languaging design methods	14
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	14
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	14
Book Review	14
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	13
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	12
Exploring the use of speculative design as a participatory approach to more inclusive policy-identification and development in Malaysia	11
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	11
Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?	11