OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Design Studies is 20. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	95
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	79
Editorial: Design Research Notes	52
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	48
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada	47
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	37
Editorial Board	37
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	34
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	34
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	33
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	31
Editorial Board	28
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	27
There is no such thing as strategic design	26
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	26
Acknowledgement of Referees	26
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	24
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	24
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	21
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	21
Inspiration for styling tasks	20