Topic · Design Education and Practice
Most cited papers in Design Education and Practice
What are the most cited papers in Design Education and Practice?
The most cited paper in Design Education and Practice is "Design Experiments in Educational Research" (Paul Cobb, Jere Confrey, Andrea A. diSessa et al., 2003), with 3,507 citations. Next come "Toward a Theory of Organizational Creativity" (3,375) and "The role of product architecture in the manufacturing firm" (2,893).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 715 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Design Experiments in Educational Research Paul Cobb, Jere Confrey, Andrea A. diSessa et al. · Educational Researcher | 2003 | 3,507 |
| 2 | Toward a Theory of Organizational Creativity Richard W. Woodman, John E. Sawyer, Ricky W. Griffin · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1993 | 3,375 |
| 3 | The role of product architecture in the manufacturing firm Karl T. Ulrich · Research Policy | May 1995 | 2,893 |
| 4 | The theory of affordances James J. Gibson · Medical Entomology and Zoology | 1977 | 2,848 |
| 5 | Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Clive L. Dym, Alice Merner Agogino, Özgür Eriş et al. · Journal of Engineering Education | 2005 | 2,805 |
| 6 | Interpretive Barriers to Successful Product Innovation in Large Firms Deborah J. Dougherty · Organization Science | May 1992 | 2,789 |
| 7 | Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning Herbert A. Simon · Organization Science | Feb 1991 | 2,715 |
| 8 | Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity James C. Kaufman, Ronald A. Beghetto · Review of General Psychology | Mar 2009 | 2,650 |
| 9 | Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook John P. Morgan · Technometrics | Nov 2005 | 2,426 |
| 10 | Defining and developing measures of lean production Rachna Shah, Peter T. Ward · Journal of Operations Management | 20 Jan 2007 | 2,382 |
| 11 | Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution Kees Dorst, Nigel Cross · Design Studies | Sep 2001 | 2,337 |
| 12 | Mass customization: The new frontier in business competition B. Joseph Pine · Journal of Manufacturing Systems | 1999 | 2,331 |
| 13 | Engineering design — A systematic approach Kevin L. Edwards · Materials & Design (1980-2015) | 1995 | 2,132 |
| 14 | Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing Richard J. Boland, Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi · Organization Science | Aug 1995 | 2,115 |
| 15 | On the genesis of abstract ideas. Michael I. Posner, Steven W. Keele · Journal of Experimental Psychology | 1968 | 2,045 |
| 16 | Linear models in decision making. Robyn M. Dawes, Bernard Martin Corrigan · Psychological Bulletin | Feb 1974 | 1,898 |
| 17 | The core of ‘design thinking’ and its application Kees Dorst · Design Studies | Sep 2011 | 1,872 |
| 18 | Demography and Design: Predictors of New Product Team Performance Deborah Gladstein Ancona, David F. Caldwell · Organization Science | Aug 1992 | 1,854 |
| 19 | Human factors in engineering and design SHIHAB S. ASFOUR · International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics | May 1988 | 1,814 |
| 20 | Leading creative people: Orchestrating expertise and relationships Michael D. Mumford, Ginamarie M. Scott, Blaine H. Gaddis et al. · The Leadership Quarterly | 12 Nov 2002 | 1,742 |
| 21 | Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature Vish Krishnan, Karl T. Ulrich · Management Science | 2001 | 1,728 |
| 22 | Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things Marshall W. Fishwick · The Journal of American Culture | 11 May 2004 | 1,569 |
| 23 | A Three Cycle View of Design Science Research Alan R. Hevner · Journal of the Association for Information Systems | 2007 | 1,543 |
| 24 | Applying the design structure matrix to system decomposition and integration problems: a review and new directions Tyson R. Browning · IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management | 2001 | 1,536 |
| 25 | Designerly ways of knowing Nigel Cross · Design Studies | Oct 1982 | 1,498 |
| 26 | Divergent Thinking as an Indicator of Creative Potential Mark A. Runco, Selçuk Acar · Creativity Research Journal | 2012 | 1,431 |
| 27 | Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism: Comparing Critical Features from an Instructional Design Perspective Peggy A. Ertmer, Timothy J. Newby · Performance Improvement Quarterly | Dec 1993 | 1,410 |
| 28 | What Is Design Thinking and Why Is It Important? Rim Razzouk, Valerie J. Shute · Review of Educational Research | 11 Aug 2012 | 1,384 |
| 29 | Ambiguity as a resource for design William W. Gaver, Jacob Beaver, Steve Benford | 5 Apr 2003 | 1,334 |
| 30 | Mass customization: Literature review and research directions Giovani J.C. da Silveira, Denis Borenstein, Flavio Sanson Fogliatto · International Journal of Production Economics | Jun 2001 | 1,313 |
| 31 | Management Research Based on the Paradigm of the Design Sciences: The Quest for Field‐Tested and Grounded Technological Rules Joan E. van Aken · Journal of Management Studies | 10 Feb 2004 | 1,301 |
| 32 | Team mental model: construct or metaphor? Richard J. Klimoski · Journal of Management | 1994 | 1,285 |
| 33 | Doing Topology Optimization Explicitly and Geometrically—A New Moving Morphable Components Based Framework Xu Guo, Weisheng Zhang, Wenliang Zhong · Journal of Applied Mechanics | 7 May 2014 | 1,244 |
| 34 | Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research Sandra K. Evans, Katy E. Pearce, Jessica Vitak et al. · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | 26 Dec 2016 | 1,244 |
| 35 | In Praise of Convergent Thinking Arthur J. Cropley · Creativity Research Journal | Jul 2006 | 1,227 |
| 36 | On understanding computers and cognition: A new foundation for design Terry Winograd, Fernando Agustin Santiago Flores · Artificial Intelligence | Feb 1987 | 1,216 |
| 37 | The situated function–behaviour–structure framework John S. Gero, Udo Kannengiesser · Design Studies | 6 Jan 2004 | 1,170 |
| 38 | Minority dissent and team innovation: The importance of participation in decision making. Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Michael West · Journal of Applied Psychology | 2001 | 1,166 |
| 39 | Design Thinking: Past, Present and Possible Futures Ulla Johansson‐Sköldberg, Jill Woodilla, Mehves Çetinkaya · Creativity and Innovation Management | 25 Mar 2013 | 1,156 |
| 40 | What should we expect from research through design? William W. Gaver | 5 May 2012 | 1,112 |
| 41 | Shopfloor innovation: Facilitating the suggestion and implementation of ideas Carolyn M. Axtell, David J. Holman, Kerrie L. Unsworth et al. · Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology | Sep 2000 | 1,107 |
| 42 | Metrics for measuring ideation effectiveness Jami J. Shah, Steve M. Smith, Noé Vargas-Hernández · Design Studies | 30 Jan 2003 | 1,085 |
| 43 | Methods to support human-centred design Martin C. Maguire · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies | Oct 2001 | 1,071 |
| 44 | A Theory of Individual Creative Action in Multiple Social Domains Cameron M. Ford · Academy of Management Review | Oct 1996 | 1,063 |
| 45 | A functional basis for engineering design: Reconciling and evolving previous efforts Julie M. Hirtz, Robert B. Stone, Daniel A. McAdams et al. · Research in Engineering Design | Mar 2002 | 1,061 |
| 46 | FEDS: a Framework for Evaluation in Design Science Research John R. Venable, Jan Pries‐Heje, Richard Baskerville · European Journal of Information Systems | 11 Nov 2014 | 1,053 |
| 47 | The Principles of Sociotechnical Design Albert B. Cherns · Human Relations | Aug 1976 | 1,046 |
| 48 | Brainstorming Groups in Context: Effectiveness in a Product Design Firm Robert I. Sutton, Andrew B. Hargadon · Administrative Science Quarterly | Dec 1996 | 1,029 |
| 49 | A model-based method for organizing tasks in product development Steven D. Eppinger, Daniel E. Whitney, Robert P. Smith et al. · Research in Engineering Design | Mar 1994 | 1,028 |
| 50 | Design fixation David G. Jansson, Steven M. Smith · Design Studies | 1991 | 1,024 |
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