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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment of product resilience towards the changing customer requirements	42
A novel Kriging-assisted multi-objective optimisation method considering infeasibility ratio under input uncertainty	24
Analysing the prosumer opportunity. Prosumer products’ success or failure	24
Modularisation of system architecture to improve system recoverability: a unique application of design structure matrix	23
Lumos: AI-driven prompt optimisation tool for assisting conceptual design	21
A data-driven adaptive algorithm and decision support design of multisensory information fusion for prognostics and health management applications	20
What’s more important for product design – usability or emotionality? An examination of influencing factors	19
A risk analysis method for implementation of additive manufacturing	19
Exploring synergies between AIGC and TRIZ in the optimisation of road cone design through integrated innovation methods	18
A novel transformer-enhanced and acoustic-based approach for wind turbine blade fault detection with integrated system implementation	18
Combining ChatGPT and knowledge graph for explainable machine learning-driven design: a case study	17
Using linkography to understand the thinking differences of designers between engineering and art backgrounds in the early stages of the design process	16
Factors influencing communication in collaborative design	16
Documenting practice research: constraints and opportunities	16
Reference model for the development of prototypes based on C-K theory	15
Understanding long-term behaviour change techniques: a mixed methods study	15
Reasoning support for predicting requirement change volatility using complex network metrics	14
Vivid-persona: customizable persona tool with interactive and immersive experiences	14
Human-robot collaboration assembly personalised safety detection method based on digital twin	13
Configuring products using NSGA-II: warranty profits, performance–price, and environmental emissions from the contractor perspective	13
Research on resource analysis method based on attribute similarity and position weight for conceptual design	12
GPB and BAC: two novel models towards building an intelligent motor fault maintenance question answering system	12
Effect of interdependence on team effectiveness during design problem-solving in first-year engineering	12
Sustainable design of bamboo weaving products based on style generative adversarial network and Grasshopper technology	11
An approach to coupling analysis for open architecture product	11

BICAD bio-inspired design method and BICAD assistant design tool	11
A knowledge graph-based bio-inspired design approach for knowledge retrieval and reasoning	11
Fostering the progressive deployment and standardisation of engineering processes – proposal of a dedicated framework for manufacturing SMEs	11
Enhancing the environmental sustainability of product through ecodesign: a systematic review	11
Multiple Life-Cycle Products: A Review of Antecedents, Outcomes, Challenges, and Benefits in a Circular Economy	10
A complex network theory-based changes propagation control approach for variant design of production line	10
Hyperparameter tuning design of performance indicators prediction for hydrogen fuel cells based on Bayesian optimisation with AIGC	10
Local absorption of uncertainty in complex systems using resilient objects	10
Evolving to multi-modal knowledge graphs for engineering design: state-of-the-art and future challenges	10
Confirmation dialog box in the physical world: design strategies on tangible confirmation behavior in human-machine interaction	9
A model-based systems engineering approach for developing modular system architectures	9
Delimiting design: expanding the limits of concurrency through set-based concurrent engineering	9
How best to capture the voice of the customer in new offer design? A Neuro Kano model	9
Aesthetic shape generation system based on novelty and complexity	9
Integrating AIGC with design: dependence, application, and evolution - a systematic literature review	9
Modularity and new product performance: the role of new product development speed and task uncertainty	9
A customer requirements analysis method of considering product scenarios for improving product design	8
Designing dual ontological products for human factors: a machine learning and harmonistic knowledge-based computational support tool	8
Product emotional design method based on image metaphor: a technical note	8
From theory to practice: a roadmap for applying dual-process theory in design cognition research	8
Intelligent design exploration method for complex engineered system architecture generation	8
Mastering manufacturing: exploring the influence of engineering designers’ prior experience when using design for additive manufacturing	8
Hybrid gene regulatory network for product styling construction in interactive evolutionary design	8
Review of Integrated Design Engineering, Interdisciplinary and Holistic Product Development	7
Simulation of variation for manual assembly when mis-constraining occurs	7
Industrial logistics optimisation in transportation with fuzzing techniques and reverse engineering to secure proprietary traffic control systems	7
Ebb and flow: design fixation and creativity in professional groups	7
Core components-oriented modularisation methodology for complex products	7
An expert system for analysing the printability and integratability of assembly structures under the context of design for additive manufacturing	7
Toward sustainable joint optimisation for product family and supply chain configuration with smart contracting consideration	7
AskNatureGPT: an LLM-driven concept generation method based on bio-inspired design knowledge	6
Value chain design through synergistic optimisation of configuration and operation of value activities: an application case of cold chain logistics	6
Extraction and linking of motivation, specification and structure of inventions for early design use	6
User-centred design approach with misidentified end-users: case study for smart composite structures	6
Computerised design, simulation of meshing and stress analysis of bionic logarithmic spiral spur gear drives	6
A practical and ready handbook for mechanical designers and design educators? A review of design optimization using MATLAB^® and SOLIDWORKS^® by Krishnan Suresh	6
The power and potential of Behavioural Design: practice, methodology, and ethics	6
Optimal scheme of open design based on co-designer involvement and the dynamic FBSC model	6
Advancing engineering design problem-exploring practice: interviews with industry professionals	6
Crashworthiness optimisation and environmental impact assessment of a redesigned passenger coach integrating lean design-for-X framework	6
Investigating the generation of specific design knowledge: experimental validation of a qualitative modelling method	6
Knowledge-based product and process design synthesis of additively manufactured non-assembly mechanisms	6
An evolutionary graph of product service system research topics based on bibliometric analysis and topic modelling	5
Association change and its relationship with designs in context and form: how product evaluation is affected by negative framings	5
Multi-modal online review driven product improvement design based on scientific effects knowledge graph	5
A predictive production-logistics cooperation method for service-oriented smart discrete manufacturing system	5
Automatic generation of system model diagrams driven by multi-source heterogeneous data	5
Research on the association mechanism and evaluation model between EMG data and product aesthetic quality in product aesthetics evaluation	5
Design method validation – an investigation of the current practice in design research	5
Leveraging deep reinforcement learning for design space exploration with multi-fidelity surrogate model	5

Social manufacturing supply-demand service matching design based on knowledge graphs and graph convolutional networks