OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Engineering Design is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Product innovation concept generation based on deep learning and Kansei engineering	26
An investigation into the current state of education in Design for Additive Manufacturing	16
Product sustainable design for carbon footprint during product life cycle	16
Factors influencing communication in collaborative design	16
New design: opportunities for engineering design in an era of digital transformation	16
Modularisation of system architecture to improve system recoverability: a unique application of design structure matrix	16
Novelty metrics in engineering design	15
Joint decision-making of product family configuration and order allocation by coordinating suppliers under disruption risks	15
Integrating human factors early in the design process using digital human modelling and surrogate modelling	14
An overview of self-engineering systems	14
Design method validation – an investigation of the current practice in design research	13
Exploring the link between uncertainty and project activities in new product development	12
Methodology for mapping form design elements with user preferences using Kansei engineering and VDI	12
Multi -source design change propagation path optimisation based on the multi-view complex network model	12
Study on product form design via Kansei engineering and virtual reality	11
Built to win? Exploring the role of competitive environments on students’ creativity in design for additive manufacturing tasks	11
Fresh in My Mind! Investigating the effects of the order of presenting opportunistic and restrictive design for additive manufacturing content on students’ creativity	10
Application of multi-criteria decision-making methods in the selection of additive manufacturing materials for solid ankle foot orthoses	10
Knowledge: the good, the bad, and the ways for designer creativity	10
A model-based systems engineering approach for developing modular system architectures	10
Research on the correlation mechanism between eye-tracking data and aesthetic ratings in product aesthetic evaluation	10
Mastering manufacturing: exploring the influence of engineering designers’ prior experience when using design for additive manufacturing	10
Multiple Life-Cycle Products: A Review of Antecedents, Outcomes, Challenges, and Benefits in a Circular Economy	10
Enhancing patent retrieval using text and knowledge graph embeddings: a technical note	9
Technology fitness landscape for design innovation: a deep neural embedding approach based on patent data	8

Reasoning support for predicting requirement change volatility using complex network metrics	8
Core components-oriented modularisation methodology for complex products	8
Concurrent optimizing configuration, price, warranty, and supply policy in configurable product family (CPF)	8
Towards the evolution characteristics of product structural properties based on the time-dependent network	8
Refined metric for a-posteriori novelty assessments	8
Innovation in a box: exploring creativity in design for additive manufacturing in a regulated industry	8
STEM Integration through shared practices: examining secondary science and engineering technology students’ concurrent think-aloud protocols	8
The role of product development in the battle against product-related stigma – a literature review	8
Aesthetic shape generation system based on novelty and complexity	7
A unified method for functional modeling of mechatronic products	7
How does AI promote design iteration? The optimal time to integrate AI into the design process	7
Design a sustainable micro-mobility future: trends and challenges in the US and EU	7
Automating the conceptual design of residental areas using visual and generative programming	7
Understanding customers across national cultures: the influence of national cultural differences on designers’ empathic accuracy	7
A question answering system for assembly process of wind turbines based on multi-modal knowledge graph and large language model	7
Margins in design – review of related concepts and methods	7
Product obsolescence assessment based on the hybrid uncertain Information Axiom	7
Leveraging behavioural economics in smart nudge design through data-driven prospect-theoretic modelling and context-aware intelligent reasoning: application to smart tip nudging	7
Evolving to multi-modal knowledge graphs for engineering design: state-of-the-art and future challenges	6
Exploring graduate students’ collaborative problem-solving in engineering design tasks	6
A customer requirements analysis method of considering product scenarios for improving product design	6
Complex product configuration updating oriented by changing customer requirements	6
Product family configuration optimisation considering after-sale service: an adaptive quantum evolutionary algorithm approach	6
Design for cascading applications reuse – understandings of an emerging end-of-use strategy and propositions for its implementation	6
An improved sequential multi-objective robust optimisation approach considering interval uncertainty reduction under mixed uncertainties	6
Designing the future of the fourth industrial revolution	6
Configuring products using NSGA-II: warranty profits, performance–price, and environmental emissions from the contractor perspective	6
A data-driven adaptive algorithm and decision support design of multisensory information fusion for prognostics and health management applications	6
A decision support model to manage overspecification in system development projects	6
Innovation level in set-based design: an integrated approach with chosen-to-fit and custom-to-fit solutions	5
Enhancing the environmental sustainability of product through ecodesign: a systematic review	5
Planning unplanned design iterations using risk management and learning strategies	5
Exploring topic modelling for generalising design requirements in complex design	5
A solution in search of problems: a cognitive tool for solution mapping to promote divergent thinking	5
A vision for design in the era of collective computing	5
Grey-Markov model of user demands prediction based on online reviews	5
Integrated uncertainty management in parametric design and tolerancing	5
Impact of mixed reality implementation on early-stage interactive product design process	5
Visual-triggered contextual guidance for lithium battery disassembly: a multi-modal event knowledge graph approach	5
A surrogate model-assisted robustness-oriented tolerance design method based on ‘reverse model’	4
Uncertainty modeling and applications for operating data-driven inverse design	4
User-centred design approach with misidentified end-users: case study for smart composite structures	4
A system modeling process based on SysML to support data consistency across system requirement, function, and solution model layers	4
Human-Robot handover task intention recognition framework by fusing human digital twin and deep domain adaptation	4
Design for test and qualification through activity-based modelling in product architecture design	4
Extraction and linking of motivation, specification and structure of inventions for early design use	4
Comparing human and cognitive assistant facilitated brainstorming sessions	4
What’s more important for product design – usability or emotionality? An examination of influencing factors	4
Seeing is believing: investigating the influence of transparency on consumers’ product perceptions and attitude	4
Two-stage approach to causality analysis-based quality problem solving for discrete manufacturing systems	4

A twofold update quantum-inspired genetic algorithm for efficient combinatorial optimal decisions in engineering system design and operations	4
Examination of common mistakes for successful leveraging the Kano model and proposal for enhancement	4
Designing with examples: a study on the role of familiarity, warnings and physical modelling	3
A decision-making method for complex system design in a heterogeneous language information environment	3
Value chain design through synergistic optimisation of configuration and operation of value activities: an application case of cold chain logistics	3
Optimal scheme of open design based on co-designer involvement and the dynamic FBSC model	3
Automatically inferring technology compatibility with an ontology and graph rewriting rules	3
Promoting knowledge recommendation in innovative engineering design: a BERT-GAT-based patent representation learning approach	3
A field-based knowledge graph assisted conceptual design for structure configuration of engineering equipment	3
DeepMorpher: deep learning-based design space dimensionality reduction for shape optimisation	3
Investigating the generation of specific design knowledge: experimental validation of a qualitative modelling method	3
Cooperative negotiation in value-driven engineering and systems design: a technical note	3
A modular visuo-haptic mixed reality (VHMR) aided prototype technique for in-vehicle human-machine interaction (HMI) evaluations	3
Application of fuzzy-logic for design assessment of complex engineering systems in the early design stages	3
A hypergraph model of product function recombination based on online reviews	3
The impact of graduate student goal orientation on design projects	2
How much workload is a ‘good’ workload for human beings to meet the deadline: human capacity zone and workload equilibrium	2
An integrated decision-making approach to evaluating design schemes under heterogeneous fuzzy environment	2
Design optimization of additively manufactured sandwich beams through experimentation, machine learning, and imperialist competitive algorithm	2
Multi-objective disassembly line design and optimisation considering energy efficiency and human factors	2
Product emotional design method based on image metaphor: a technical note	2
A systematic literature review of changeability in engineering systems along the life cycle	2
A deep learning approach for balance optimisation of patch panel assembly line	2
Design for reversed additive manufacturing low-melting-point alloys	2
Image regression-based digital qualification for simulation-driven design processes, case study on curtain airbag	2
New application for sketching in a machine tool company	2
An expert system for analysing the printability and integratability of assembly structures under the context of design for additive manufacturing	2
Ebb and flow: design fixation and creativity in professional groups	2
Hybrid uncertainty analysis and optimisation based on probability box for bus powertrain mounting system	2
Architectural design space exploration of complex engineered systems with management constraints and preferences	2
Design for product resilience: concept, characteristics and generalisation	2
A new design for additive manufacturing method: applied on the bound metal deposition process	2
Design research in healthcare: a systematic literature review of key design journals	2
Impacts of product structural characteristics on modular performance with virtual DSM data mining	2
Toward sustainable joint optimisation for product family and supply chain configuration with smart contracting consideration	2
Assessment of product resilience towards the changing customer requirements	2
Designing dual ontological products for human factors: a machine learning and harmonistic knowledge-based computational support tool	2
Game analysis of product specifications for design optimisation using big sales data	2
Optimal design of thermo-compression bonder via ANN-based surrogate modeling under uncertainty	2
The economics of additive manufacturing and topology optimisation – a case analysis of the electric scooter	1
Intelligent fault diagnosis for high-speed bearing towards unbalanced samples via convolutional weight adaptive network	1
Customer’s PIE for experiencescape design	1
Modelling the cost-benefit impact of integrated product modularisation and postponement in the supply chain for pharmaceutical mass customisation	1
Understanding long-term behaviour change techniques: a mixed methods study	1
Gesture-driven interaction service system for complex operations in digital twin manufacturing cells	1
Six smart guidelines for high-tech manufacture on low-tech 3D printers: the case of the 3Flex	1
An effective design freeze strategy for establishing design rules in modular product development	1
Effects of activity time limitation on gesture elicitation for form creation	1
Innovative design of multi-contradiction systems based on the function-structure model	1
Intelligent emotion recognition in product design using multimodal physiological signals and machine learning	1
Multi-objective robustness indicators for evaluation and exploration of design margins	1
Optimising logistics in intelligent transportation systems through CNN-IT: a convolutional neural network approach for enhanced efficiency and precision	1
A knowledge graph-based bio-inspired design approach for knowledge retrieval and reasoning	1
Advance intervention of recessive ill-conditioned feature: the early-stage design method based on system recessive inheritance	1
An evolutionary graph of product service system research topics based on bibliometric analysis and topic modelling	1
Effect of interdependence on team effectiveness during design problem-solving in first-year engineering	1
Novice engineer vs. machine: comparing artificial neural network predictions with student estimates of market price using function structure models	1
ValueD: a model of cognitive value determination in design	1
Research on propagation routing optimisation of product design change considering multi-domain network collaboration	1
Research on multi-objective optimisation of product form design based on kansei engineering	1
Analysing the prosumer opportunity. Prosumer products’ success or failure	1
Modularity and new product performance: the role of new product development speed and task uncertainty	1
Hidden overdesign in building services: insights from two UK hospital case studies	1
A systematic study of biological SE systems from complexity and design perspectives	1
Multi-modal online review driven product improvement design based on scientific effects knowledge graph	1
Knowledge graph with deep reinforcement learning for intelligent generation of machining process design	1
Engineering equipment conceptual design methodology: using function units configuration and schemes iterative solution	1
GPB and BAC: two novel models towards building an intelligent motor fault maintenance question answering system	1
Design and evaluation of smart blood pressure monitor oriented to user needs	1
Bridging the research-practice gap: understanding the knowledge exchange between design research and social design practices	1
Hybrid gene regulatory network for product styling construction in interactive evolutionary design	1
Effects of product personalisation degree on user perception in car front design	1
Fast distortion prediction in directed energy deposition using inversely-identified inherent strains	1
Analysing risk to function fulfilment: applying the function integrity diagnosis and documentation method	1
Integrating AIGC with design: dependence, application, and evolution - a systematic literature review	1
Data mining prototyping knowledge graphs for design process insights	1
Association change and its relationship with designs in context and form: how product evaluation is affected by negative framings	1