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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	86
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	64
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	50
Editorial: Design Research Notes	44
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	41
Editorial Board	35
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	33
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	32
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada	29
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	27
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	26
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	26
Editorial Board	26
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	25
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	21
There is no such thing as strategic design	21
Acknowledgement of Referees	21
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	21
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	20
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	20
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	18
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	18
Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16
Inspiration for styling tasks	16

Editorial Board	15
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	15
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	15
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	14
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	14
Languaging design methods	13
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	12
Book Review	12
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	11
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	11
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	11
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	11