OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Engineering Design is 5. 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
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
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
Novelty metrics in engineering design	15
Joint decision-making of product family configuration and order allocation by coordinating suppliers under disruption risks	15
An overview of self-engineering systems	14
Integrating human factors early in the design process using digital human modelling and surrogate modelling	14
Design method validation – an investigation of the current practice in design research	13
Multi -source design change propagation path optimisation based on the multi-view complex network model	12
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
Built to win? Exploring the role of competitive environments on students’ creativity in design for additive manufacturing tasks	11
Study on product form design via Kansei engineering and virtual reality	11
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
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
Enhancing patent retrieval using text and knowledge graph embeddings: a technical note	9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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