OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Engineering Design is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Product innovation concept generation based on deep learning and Kansei engineering	20
Examining the effect of design for additive manufacturing rule presentation on part redesign quality	17
Understanding behavioural design: barriers and enablers	15
Product sustainable design for carbon footprint during product life cycle	15
An integrated ISM-MICMAC approach for modelling and analysing dependencies among engineering parameters in the early design phase	14
Novelty metrics in engineering design	13
New design: opportunities for engineering design in an era of digital transformation	12
Factors influencing communication in collaborative design	12
Exploring the link between uncertainty and project activities in new product development	12
Joint decision-making of product family configuration and order allocation by coordinating suppliers under disruption risks	12
An overview of self-engineering systems	12
An investigation into the current state of education in Design for Additive Manufacturing	11
Multi -source design change propagation path optimisation based on the multi-view complex network model	11
Methodology for mapping form design elements with user preferences using Kansei engineering and VDI	11
Modularisation of system architecture to improve system recoverability: a unique application of design structure matrix	11
Design method validation – an investigation of the current practice in design research	11
Integrating human factors early in the design process using digital human modelling and surrogate modelling	10
Designing P4 healthcare interventions for managing cognitive decline and dementia: where are we at?	10
Built to win? Exploring the role of competitive environments on students’ creativity in design for additive manufacturing tasks	9
A model-based systems engineering approach for developing modular system architectures	9
Fresh in My Mind! Investigating the effects of the order of presenting opportunistic and restrictive design for additive manufacturing content on students’ creativity	9
Mastering manufacturing: exploring the influence of engineering designers’ prior experience when using design for additive manufacturing	8
Towards the evolution characteristics of product structural properties based on the time-dependent network	8
Concurrent optimizing configuration, price, warranty, and supply policy in configurable product family (CPF)	8
Study on product form design via Kansei engineering and virtual reality	8

A unified method for functional modeling of mechatronic products	7
Leveraging behavioural economics in smart nudge design through data-driven prospect-theoretic modelling and context-aware intelligent reasoning: application to smart tip nudging	7
Technology fitness landscape for design innovation: a deep neural embedding approach based on patent data	7
The role of product development in the battle against product-related stigma – a literature review	7
STEM Integration through shared practices: examining secondary science and engineering technology students’ concurrent think-aloud protocols	7
Refined metric for a-posteriori novelty assessments	7
Margins in design – review of related concepts and methods	6
An improved sequential multi-objective robust optimisation approach considering interval uncertainty reduction under mixed uncertainties	6
Reasoning support for predicting requirement change volatility using complex network metrics	6
Enhancing patent retrieval using text and knowledge graph embeddings: a technical note	6
A decision support model to manage overspecification in system development projects	6
Product obsolescence assessment based on the hybrid uncertain Information Axiom	6
Exploring graduate students’ collaborative problem-solving in engineering design tasks	6
Improving early stage system design under the uncertainty in reliability-wise structure	6
Complex product configuration updating oriented by changing customer requirements	6
Multiple Life-Cycle Products: A Review of Antecedents, Outcomes, Challenges, and Benefits in a Circular Economy	6
Core components-oriented modularisation methodology for complex products	6
Planning an industrial design engineering curriculum according to the labour market based on dual training	5
Innovation level in set-based design: an integrated approach with chosen-to-fit and custom-to-fit solutions	5
Understanding customers across national cultures: the influence of national cultural differences on designers’ empathic accuracy	5
Knowledge: the good, the bad, and the ways for designer creativity	5
A vision for design in the era of collective computing	5
Aesthetic shape generation system based on novelty and complexity	5
Innovation in a box: exploring creativity in design for additive manufacturing in a regulated industry	5
Configuring products using NSGA-II: warranty profits, performance–price, and environmental emissions from the contractor perspective	5
Planning unplanned design iterations using risk management and learning strategies	5
A customer requirements analysis method of considering product scenarios for improving product design	5
Product family configuration optimisation considering after-sale service: an adaptive quantum evolutionary algorithm approach	5
A solution in search of problems: a cognitive tool for solution mapping to promote divergent thinking	5
Seeing is believing: investigating the influence of transparency on consumers’ product perceptions and attitude	4
Enhancing the environmental sustainability of product through ecodesign: a systematic review	4
A data-driven adaptive algorithm and decision support design of multisensory information fusion for prognostics and health management applications	4
Integrated uncertainty management in parametric design and tolerancing	4
User-centred design approach with misidentified end-users: case study for smart composite structures	4
Design for cascading applications reuse – understandings of an emerging end-of-use strategy and propositions for its implementation	4
Application of multi-criteria decision-making methods in the selection of additive manufacturing materials for solid ankle foot orthoses	4
Uncertainty modeling and applications for operating data-driven inverse design	4
Impact of mixed reality implementation on early-stage interactive product design process	4
Design a sustainable micro-mobility future: trends and challenges in the US and EU	4
A modular visuo-haptic mixed reality (VHMR) aided prototype technique for in-vehicle human-machine interaction (HMI) evaluations	3
Value chain design through synergistic optimisation of configuration and operation of value activities: an application case of cold chain logistics	3
Examination of common mistakes for successful leveraging the Kano model and proposal for enhancement	3
A decision-making method for complex system design in a heterogeneous language information environment	3
A surrogate model-assisted robustness-oriented tolerance design method based on ‘reverse model’	3
Visual-triggered contextual guidance for lithium battery disassembly: a multi-modal event knowledge graph approach	3
Designing with examples: a study on the role of familiarity, warnings and physical modelling	3
What’s more important for product design – usability or emotionality? An examination of influencing factors	3
Application of fuzzy-logic for design assessment of complex engineering systems in the early design stages	3
Automatically inferring technology compatibility with an ontology and graph rewriting rules	3
A system modeling process based on SysML to support data consistency across system requirement, function, and solution model layers	3

Designing the future of the fourth industrial revolution	2
How does AI promote design iteration? The optimal time to integrate AI into the design process	2
A hypergraph model of product function recombination based on online reviews	2
A twofold update quantum-inspired genetic algorithm for efficient combinatorial optimal decisions in engineering system design and operations	2
Human-Robot handover task intention recognition framework by fusing human digital twin and deep domain adaptation	2
Design for test and qualification through activity-based modelling in product architecture design	2
A question answering system for assembly process of wind turbines based on multi-modal knowledge graph and large language model	2
An integrated decision-making approach to evaluating design schemes under heterogeneous fuzzy environment	2
Cooperative negotiation in value-driven engineering and systems design: a technical note	2
Grey-Markov model of user demands prediction based on online reviews	2
Optimal design of thermo-compression bonder via ANN-based surrogate modeling under uncertainty	2
DeepMorpher: deep learning-based design space dimensionality reduction for shape optimisation	2
Investigating the generation of specific design knowledge: experimental validation of a qualitative modelling method	2
Comparing human and cognitive assistant facilitated brainstorming sessions	2
New application for sketching in a machine tool company	1
An expert system for analysing the printability and integratability of assembly structures under the context of design for additive manufacturing	1
Toward sustainable joint optimisation for product family and supply chain configuration with smart contracting consideration	1
Product emotional design method based on image metaphor: a technical note	1
A systematic literature review of changeability in engineering systems along the life cycle	1
A deep learning approach for balance optimisation of patch panel assembly line	1
A new design for additive manufacturing method: applied on the bound metal deposition process	1
Image regression-based digital qualification for simulation-driven design processes, case study on curtain airbag	1
Understanding long-term behaviour change techniques: a mixed methods study	1
Extraction and linking of motivation, specification and structure of inventions for early design use	1
Multi-objective disassembly line design and optimisation considering energy efficiency and human factors	1
Assessment of product resilience towards the changing customer requirements	1
Analysing risk to function fulfilment: applying the function integrity diagnosis and documentation method	1
Exploring topic modelling for generalising design requirements in complex design	1
Fast distortion prediction in directed energy deposition using inversely-identified inherent strains	1
Hidden overdesign in building services: insights from two UK hospital case studies	1
Data mining prototyping knowledge graphs for design process insights	1
Advance intervention of recessive ill-conditioned feature: the early-stage design method based on system recessive inheritance	1
Design research in healthcare: a systematic literature review of key design journals	1
Novice engineer vs. machine: comparing artificial neural network predictions with student estimates of market price using function structure models	1
Impacts of product structural characteristics on modular performance with virtual DSM data mining	1
Ebb and flow: design fixation and creativity in professional groups	1
Analysing the prosumer opportunity. Prosumer products’ success or failure	1
ValueD: a model of cognitive value determination in design	1
Automating the conceptual design of residental areas using visual and generative programming	1
Design for product resilience: concept, characteristics and generalisation	1
Multi-objective robustness indicators for evaluation and exploration of design margins	1
Engineering equipment conceptual design methodology: using function units configuration and schemes iterative solution	1
Research on the correlation mechanism between eye-tracking data and aesthetic ratings in product aesthetic evaluation	1
Optimal scheme of open design based on co-designer involvement and the dynamic FBSC model	1