OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Engineering Design is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Product innovation concept generation based on deep learning and Kansei engineering	20
Designers’ professional identity: personal attributes and design skills	18
Examining the effect of design for additive manufacturing rule presentation on part redesign quality	16
An integrated ISM-MICMAC approach for modelling and analysing dependencies among engineering parameters in the early design phase	14
Understanding behavioural design: barriers and enablers	14
Product sustainable design for carbon footprint during product life cycle	14
Product design improvement by a new similarity-index-based approach in the context of reconfigurable assembly processes	13
Novelty metrics in engineering design	13
Joint decision-making of product family configuration and order allocation by coordinating suppliers under disruption risks	12
Exploring the link between uncertainty and project activities in new product development	12
An investigation into the current state of education in Design for Additive Manufacturing	11
An overview of self-engineering systems	11
Design method validation – an investigation of the current practice in design research	11
Modularisation of system architecture to improve system recoverability: a unique application of design structure matrix	11
New design: opportunities for engineering design in an era of digital transformation	11
Factors influencing communication in collaborative design	11
Multi -source design change propagation path optimisation based on the multi-view complex network model	10
Methodology for mapping form design elements with user preferences using Kansei engineering and VDI	10
Designing P4 healthcare interventions for managing cognitive decline and dementia: where are we at?	10
Fresh in My Mind! Investigating the effects of the order of presenting opportunistic and restrictive design for additive manufacturing content on students’ creativity	9
Integrating human factors early in the design process using digital human modelling and surrogate modelling	9
Built to win? Exploring the role of competitive environments on students’ creativity in design for additive manufacturing tasks	8
Mastering manufacturing: exploring the influence of engineering designers’ prior experience when using design for additive manufacturing	7
Towards the evolution characteristics of product structural properties based on the time-dependent network	7
Refined metric for a-posteriori novelty assessments	7

A model-based systems engineering approach for developing modular system architectures	7
STEM Integration through shared practices: examining secondary science and engineering technology students’ concurrent think-aloud protocols	7
Study on product form design via Kansei engineering and virtual reality	7
The player-interface method: a structured approach to support product-service systems concept generation	7
An improved sequential multi-objective robust optimisation approach considering interval uncertainty reduction under mixed uncertainties	6
Concurrent optimizing configuration, price, warranty, and supply policy in configurable product family (CPF)	6
Reasoning support for predicting requirement change volatility using complex network metrics	6
A unified method for functional modeling of mechatronic products	6
Exploring graduate students’ collaborative problem-solving in engineering design tasks	6
Improving early stage system design under the uncertainty in reliability-wise structure	5
Understanding customers across national cultures: the influence of national cultural differences on designers’ empathic accuracy	5
Product obsolescence assessment based on the hybrid uncertain Information Axiom	5
Leveraging behavioural economics in smart nudge design through data-driven prospect-theoretic modelling and context-aware intelligent reasoning: application to smart tip nudging	5
The role of product development in the battle against product-related stigma – a literature review	5
A customer requirements analysis method of considering product scenarios for improving product design	5
Product family configuration optimisation considering after-sale service: an adaptive quantum evolutionary algorithm approach	5
Configuring products using NSGA-II: warranty profits, performance–price, and environmental emissions from the contractor perspective	5
Planning unplanned design iterations using risk management and learning strategies	5
Innovation level in set-based design: an integrated approach with chosen-to-fit and custom-to-fit solutions	5
Innovation in a box: exploring creativity in design for additive manufacturing in a regulated industry	5
A solution in search of problems: a cognitive tool for solution mapping to promote divergent thinking	5
Planning an industrial design engineering curriculum according to the labour market based on dual training	5
Aesthetic shape generation system based on novelty and complexity	4
Complex product configuration updating oriented by changing customer requirements	4
Multiple Life-Cycle Products: A Review of Antecedents, Outcomes, Challenges, and Benefits in a Circular Economy	4
Impact of mixed reality implementation on early-stage interactive product design process	4
A decision support model to manage overspecification in system development projects	4
Margins in design – review of related concepts and methods	4
Knowledge: the good, the bad, and the ways for designer creativity	4
Design for cascading applications reuse – understandings of an emerging end-of-use strategy and propositions for its implementation	4
Enhancing patent retrieval using text and knowledge graph embeddings: a technical note	4
Seeing is believing: investigating the influence of transparency on consumers’ product perceptions and attitude	4
Integrated uncertainty management in parametric design and tolerancing	4
A vision for design in the era of collective computing	4
Application of multi-criteria decision-making methods in the selection of additive manufacturing materials for solid ankle foot orthoses	3
Uncertainty modeling and applications for operating data-driven inverse design	3
Automatically inferring technology compatibility with an ontology and graph rewriting rules	3
A data-driven adaptive algorithm and decision support design of multisensory information fusion for prognostics and health management applications	3
A decision-making method for complex system design in a heterogeneous language information environment	3
A surrogate model-assisted robustness-oriented tolerance design method based on ‘reverse model’	3
Value chain design through synergistic optimisation of configuration and operation of value activities: an application case of cold chain logistics	3
Examination of common mistakes for successful leveraging the Kano model and proposal for enhancement	3
Design a sustainable micro-mobility future: trends and challenges in the US and EU	3
What’s more important for product design – usability or emotionality? An examination of influencing factors	3
Enhancing the environmental sustainability of product through ecodesign: a systematic review	3
User-centred design approach with misidentified end-users: case study for smart composite structures	3
Designing with examples: a study on the role of familiarity, warnings and physical modelling	3
Core components-oriented modularisation methodology for complex products	3
Investigating the generation of specific design knowledge: experimental validation of a qualitative modelling method	2
Comparing human and cognitive assistant facilitated brainstorming sessions	2

A modular visuo-haptic mixed reality (VHMR) aided prototype technique for in-vehicle human-machine interaction (HMI) evaluations	2
How does AI promote design iteration? The optimal time to integrate AI into the design process	2
A hypergraph model of product function recombination based on online reviews	2
A twofold update quantum-inspired genetic algorithm for efficient combinatorial optimal decisions in engineering system design and operations	2
Technology fitness landscape for design innovation: a deep neural embedding approach based on patent data	2
Application of fuzzy-logic for design assessment of complex engineering systems in the early design stages	2
An integrated decision-making approach to evaluating design schemes under heterogeneous fuzzy environment	2
A system modeling process based on SysML to support data consistency across system requirement, function, and solution model layers	2
Grey-Markov model of user demands prediction based on online reviews	2
Design for test and qualification through activity-based modelling in product architecture design	2