OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Engineering Design is 5. 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
Product sustainable design for carbon footprint during product life cycle	15
Understanding behavioural design: barriers and enablers	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
An overview of self-engineering systems	12
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
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
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
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
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
Built to win? Exploring the role of competitive environments on students’ creativity in design for additive manufacturing tasks	9
Study on product form design via Kansei engineering and virtual reality	8
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

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
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
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
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
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
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