OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Design Studies is 10. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	77
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	58
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	40
Editorial: Design Research Notes	39
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	33
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	33
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	31
Editorial Board	26
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	25
Design multiple: How different configurations of participation matter in design practice	25
Editorial Board	25
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	23
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	23
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	23
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	23
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	21
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	20
There is no such thing as strategic design	19
Acknowledgement of Referees	19
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	17
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	17
Inspiration for styling tasks	16
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	16
Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	16

The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	15
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	15
Editorial Board	15
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	15
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	15
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	14
Languaging design methods	13
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	12
Book Review	12
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	12
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	11
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	11
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	10
Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?	10
The refashion circular design strategy — Changing the way we design and manufacture clothes	10