OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Design Studies is 18. 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
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	78
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	60
Editorial: Design Research Notes	42
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	42
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	34
Editorial Board	34
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	31
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	27
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	27
Editorial Board	26
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	25
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	25
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	24
Acknowledgement of Referees	23
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	22
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	21
There is no such thing as strategic design	20
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	19
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	18