OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Engineering Design is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of product development in the battle against product-related stigma – a literature review	26
A system modeling process based on SysML to support data consistency across system requirement, function, and solution model layers	17
A decision-making method for complex system design in a heterogeneous language information environment	16
Refined metric for a-posteriori novelty assessments	16
The construction of shield machine fault diagnosis knowledge graph based on joint knowledge extraction model	16
Analysing risk to function fulfilment: applying the function integrity diagnosis and documentation method	16
A knowledge graph – based requirement identification model for products remanufacturing design	15
Visual-triggered contextual guidance for lithium battery disassembly: a multi-modal event knowledge graph approach	15
Research on propagation routing optimisation of product design change considering multi-domain network collaboration	14
Evaluation of the ACAP analysis method for process-based validation of textual and graphical design methods	14
Six smart guidelines for high-tech manufacture on low-tech 3D printers: the case of the 3Flex	13
A domain knowledge-informed design space exploration methodology for mechanical layout design	11
Online BCI systems: cross-subject motor imagery classification based on weighted time-domain feature extraction methods	11
Effects of product personalisation degree on user perception in car front design	10
A novel transformer-enhanced and acoustic-based approach for wind turbine blade fault detection with integrated system implementation	10
Examination of common mistakes for successful leveraging the Kano model and proposal for enhancement	10
Effects of activity time limitation on gesture elicitation for form creation	10
Multi-objective disassembly line design and optimisation considering energy efficiency and human factors	10
Assessment of product resilience towards the changing customer requirements	9
Smart industrial information integration: a lightweight privacy protection model in an intelligent manufacturing architecture	8
An expert system for analysing the printability and integratability of assembly structures under the context of design for additive manufacturing	8
Intelligent method of reinforced gas–liquid two-phase flow regimes identification for the pipeline system design and controlling	8
Enhancing biological system engineering realisation through advanced feature transfer and extenics: a bionic design approach	8
Cooperative negotiation in value-driven engineering and systems design: a technical note	8
Impacts and opportunities of deep learning in product design process: a comprehensive survey	8

A data-driven adaptive algorithm and decision support design of multisensory information fusion for prognostics and health management applications	8
Bridging the research-practice gap: understanding the knowledge exchange between design research and social design practices	8
What’s more important for product design – usability or emotionality? An examination of influencing factors	8
Guide to ethical research and design practice when working with vulnerable participants and on sensitive topics	8
Journal of Engineering Design (JED) awards and recognition 2023	7
Product sustainable design for carbon footprint during product life cycle	7
Design optimization of additively manufactured sandwich beams through experimentation, machine learning, and imperialist competitive algorithm	7
Analysing the prosumer opportunity. Prosumer products’ success or failure	7
A new lean tool for design management: design cost deployment	7
Toward sustainable joint optimisation for product family and supply chain configuration with smart contracting consideration	7
Simulation of variation for manual assembly when mis-constraining occurs	7
Ebb and flow: design fixation and creativity in professional groups	7
Core components-oriented modularisation methodology for complex products	6
Combining ChatGPT and knowledge graph for explainable machine learning-driven design: a case study	6
Optimal scheme of open design based on co-designer involvement and the dynamic FBSC model	6
Modularisation of system architecture to improve system recoverability: a unique application of design structure matrix	6
Exploring synergies between AIGC and TRIZ in the optimisation of road cone design through integrated innovation methods	6
A hypergraph model of product function recombination based on online reviews	6
Design a sustainable micro-mobility future: trends and challenges in the US and EU	6
A novel Kriging-assisted multi-objective optimisation method considering infeasibility ratio under input uncertainty	6
Lumos: AI-driven prompt optimisation tool for assisting conceptual design	6
Review of Integrated Design Engineering, Interdisciplinary and Holistic Product Development	5
Planning unplanned design iterations using risk management and learning strategies	5
A vision for design in the era of collective computing	5
User-centred design approach with misidentified end-users: case study for smart composite structures	5
Vivid-persona: customizable persona tool with interactive and immersive experiences	5
Novice engineer vs. machine: comparing artificial neural network predictions with student estimates of market price using function structure models	5
On tacit knowledge management in product design: status, challenges, and trends	5
Replicability and reproducibility of data-intensive design research using workflows - example in facial expression synchrony as a measure of empathy	5
Comparing human and cognitive assistant facilitated brainstorming sessions	5
Reasoning support for predicting requirement change volatility using complex network metrics	4
An integrated decision-making approach to evaluating design schemes under heterogeneous fuzzy environment	4
Leveraging behavioural economics in smart nudge design through data-driven prospect-theoretic modelling and context-aware intelligent reasoning: application to smart tip nudging	4
A knowledge graph-based intelligent planning method for remanufacturing processes of used parts	4
Exploring graduate students’ collaborative problem-solving in engineering design tasks	4
Combining style generative adversarial networks with particle swarm optimisation-support vector regression to design affective social robot for public health intervention	4
Investigating the generation of specific design knowledge: experimental validation of a qualitative modelling method	4
Understanding long-term behaviour change techniques: a mixed methods study	4
Documenting practice research: constraints and opportunities	4
Knowledge-based product and process design synthesis of additively manufactured non-assembly mechanisms	4
Generating tyre tread designs using a sensory evaluation regression model and a generative model	4
An artificial intelligence approach for interpreting creative combinational designs	4
A twofold update quantum-inspired genetic algorithm for efficient combinatorial optimal decisions in engineering system design and operations	4
Extraction and linking of motivation, specification and structure of inventions for early design use	4