OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Design Studies is 11. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	90
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	69
Editorial: Design Research Notes	50
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	45
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada	44
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	36
Editorial Board	33
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	33
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	29
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	28
Editorial Board	28
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	27
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	26
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	25
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	22
There is no such thing as strategic design	22
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	22
Acknowledgement of Referees	22
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	21
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	21
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	20
Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	18
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	17
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16

Inspiration for styling tasks	16
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	15
Editorial Board	15
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	14
Languaging design methods	14
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	14
Book Review	13
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	12
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	12
Ritual design in digital age: A comprehensive analysis of development and trend	12
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	11
The refashion circular design strategy — Changing the way we design and manufacture clothes	11
Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?	11
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	11
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	11