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Quality Function Deployment in Product Design

Quality Function Deployment in Product Design is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 9.2k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the application of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in product development, management, and service quality. It covers topics such as fuzzy logic models, customer requirements prioritization, strategic management, supply chain integration, and engineering characteristics optimization.

  • Quality Function Deployment
  • QFD
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Customer Requirements
  • Product Design
  • Strategic Management
  • Multi-criteria Decision Making
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Engineering Characteristics
  • Service Quality
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
916
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Quality Function Deployment in Product Design

Which countries lead Quality Function Deployment in Product Design research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (830 and 342 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 830 works
  2. 2 China 342 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 104 works
  4. 4 India 85 works
  5. 5 United States 63 works
  6. 6 ?? 40 works
  7. 7 Brazil 34 works
  8. 8 Germany 28 works
  9. 9 Italy 27 works
  10. 10 Iran 27 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 52.5%China: 21.6%Türkiye: 6.6%India: 5.4%6 others listed: 14.0%52%largest
Indonesia830 · 52.5%China342 · 21.6%Türkiye104 · 6.6%India85 · 5.4%6 others listed221 · 14.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Quality Function Deployment in Product Design research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universitas Muhammadiyah Gresik publishes the most Quality Function Deployment in Product Design research, followed by Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta and University of Singaperbangsa Karawang.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universitas Muhammadiyah GresikIndonesia 32 works
  2. 2 Universitas Teknologi YogyakartaIndonesia 32 works
  3. 3 University of Singaperbangsa KarawangIndonesia 31 works
  4. 4 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 26 works
  5. 5 Bandung Islamic UniversityIndonesia 24 works
  6. 6 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 19 works
  7. 7 Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia 18 works
  8. 8 Mercu Buana UniversityIndonesia 15 works
  9. 9 Binus UniversityIndonesia 15 works
  10. 10 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Quality Function Deployment in Product Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Quality Function Deployment in Product Design include Francisco Herrera and Thomas L. Saaty.

  1. 1 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k citations
  2. 2 Thomas L. Saaty United States 122k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Quality Function Deployment in Product Design?

The most cited paper in Quality Function Deployment in Product Design is "Decision making with the analytic hierarchy process" (Thomas L. Saaty, 2008), with 10,098 citations. Next come "Extensions of the TOPSIS for group decision-making under fuzzy environment" (3,850) and "Analytic hierarchy process: An overview of applications" (3,822).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Decision making with the analytic hierarchy process Thomas L. Saaty · International Journal of Services Sciences 2008 10,098
2 Extensions of the TOPSIS for group decision-making under fuzzy environment Chen‐Tung Arthur Chen · Fuzzy Sets and Systems Aug 2000 3,850
3 Analytic hierarchy process: An overview of applications Omkarprasad S. Vaidya, Sushil Kumar · European Journal of Operational Research 16 Jul 2004 3,822
4 A state-of the-art survey of TOPSIS applications Majid Behzadian, Sina Khanmohammadi Otaghsara, Morteza Yazdani et al. · Expert Systems with Applications 5 Jun 2012 2,688
5 Multi-criteria decision making approaches for supplier evaluation and selection: A literature review William Ho, Xiaowei Xu, Prasanta Kumar Dey · European Journal of Operational Research Open access 19 May 2009 2,194
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Quality Function Deployment in Product Design research done?

The largest centres of Quality Function Deployment in Product Design research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gresik, Sleman and Karawang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 106 works
  2. 2 SurabayaIndonesia 92 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 88 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 40 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 38 works
  6. 6 SlemanIndonesia 35 works
  7. 7 MalangIndonesia 33 works
  8. 8 GresikIndonesia 33 works
  9. 9 YogyakartaIndonesia 31 works
  10. 10 KarawangIndonesia 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GresikID · 32.8 works80×
  2. SlemanID · 35.5 works52×
  3. KarawangID · 30.7 works42×
  4. SurabayaID · 92.0 works10×
  5. BandungID · 88.1 works8.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Quality Function Deployment in Product Design than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Quality Function Deployment in Product Design?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta, University of Singaperbangsa Karawang and Bandung Institute of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%2%4%mean 1.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitas Teknolog…Bandung Institute of…University of Singap…Universitas Muhammad…
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universitas Teknologi YogyakartaIndonesia 93.24.2%106.2×32 +772.5%
2University of Singaperbangsa KarawangIndonesia 60.90.7%45.9×31 +296.6%
3Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 58.72.5%12.8×14 +90.1%
4Universitas Muhammadiyah GresikIndonesia 50.40.0%100.2×32 +225.7%
5Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 47.32.3%17.4×12 -45.4%
6Mercu Buana UniversityIndonesia 46.52.4%27.1×16 -37.5%
7Tarumanagara UniversityIndonesia 45.72.2%14.6×13 +104.8%
8University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 45.50.0%23.1×26 +125.7%
9Binus UniversityIndonesia 44.10.0%16.1×15 +42.7%
10Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia 36.90.0%26.4×18 +224.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Quality Function Deployment in Product Design, country by country

Is Quality Function Deployment in Product Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023.

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grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Quality Function Deployment in Product Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0085% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Quality Function Deployment in Product Design0.0062% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Quality Function Deployment in Product Design over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Quality Function Deployment in Product Design9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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