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Design Science
H-index 12

Design Science

Published by: Cambridge University Press

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/design-science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 1147 10 12 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 32
Documents by Best Scientists*: 38
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 31
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.531
Impact Factor: 2.6

Top Publications

  • Supporting designers: moving from method menagerie to method ecosystem

    Killian Gericke;Claudia Eckert;Felician Campean;P John Clarkson

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • Design margins in industrial practice

    Claudia Eckert;Ola Isaksson;Safaa Lebjioui;Christopher F. Earl

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Elements of a design method – a basis for describing and evaluating design methods

    (2022)
    16 Citations
  • Industrial evaluation of design heuristics for additive manufacturing

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Where do professionals find sustainability and innovation value? Empirical tests of three sustainable design methods

    Jeremy Faludi;Felix Yiu;Alice Agogino

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Designing as playing games of make-believe

    Michael Poznic;Martin Stacey;Rafaela Hillerbrand;Claudia Eckert

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • A sparsity preserving genetic algorithm for extracting diverse functional 3D designs from deep generative neural networks

    James D. Cunningham;Dule Shu;Timothy W. Simpson;Conrad S. Tucker

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Network models and sensor layers to design adaptive learning using educational mapping

    Luwen Huang;Karen E. Willcox

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • A study of makerspace health and student tool usage during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

    (2024)
    1 Citations
  • Geometric robustness and dynamic response management by structural topometry optimisation to reduce the risk for squeak and rattle

    (2022)
    1 Citations

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