Product Development and Customization Leaderboard

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Papers

1

Microfoundations for business model innovation: Exploring the interplay between individuals, practices, and organizational design

Journal of Product Innovation Management|2025

20 cit.

2

Does corporate digitalisation moderate real earnings management?

Accounting and Finance|2024

18 cit.

3

Collecting Feature Models from the Literature: A Comprehensive Dataset for Benchmarking

Unknown Journal|2024

15 cit.

4

ESG rating disagreement and the cost of equity capital

Global Finance Journal|2025

13 cit.

5

A field-based knowledge graph assisted conceptual design for structure configuration of engineering equipment

Journal of Engineering Design|2024

12 cit.

6

mKGMPP: A multi-layer knowledge graph integration framework and its inference method for manufacturing process planning

Advanced Engineering Informatics|2025

12 cit.

7

The innovation paradox: concept space expansion with diminishing originality and the promise of creative artificial intelligence

Design Science|2024

10 cit.

8

Artificial intelligence and corporate investment efficiency

International Review of Economics & Finance|2025

9 cit.

9

Becoming a Circular Ecosystem: Altering Nested Identities, Positions, Capabilities, and Boundaries in Waste-Management Organizations

Organization & Environment|2025

8 cit.

10

Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology|2024

6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1

Pauline Ash Ray

Thomas University

2

Xin Han

Deakin University

3

Francesco Goia

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

4

Craig Wood

University of New Hampshire

5

Pai Zheng

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

6

Simon Kotnik

Gorenje (Slovenia)

7

Vinay Pandey

Uttarakhand Technical University

8

Khaled Sedraoui

King Abdulaziz University

9

Lihui Huang

Nanyang Technological University

10

Christopher McComb

Carnegie Mellon University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1

Decentralized bi-level stochastic optimization approach for multi-agent multi-energy networked micro-grids with multi-energy storage technologies

Energy|2022

138 cit.

2

Maintenance planning recommendation of complex industrial equipment based on knowledge graph and graph neural network

Reliability Engineering & System Safety|2022

135 cit.

3

An LLM-based vision and language cobot navigation approach for Human-centric Smart Manufacturing

Journal of Manufacturing Systems|2024

120 cit.

4

Leveraging error-assisted fine-tuning large language models for manufacturing excellence

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing|2024

95 cit.

5

A visual reasoning-based approach for mutual-cognitive human-robot collaboration

CIRP Annals|2022

81 cit.

6

Human-object integrated assembly intention recognition for context-aware human-robot collaborative assembly

Advanced Engineering Informatics|2022

75 cit.

7

Optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy systems by considering power sharing and electric vehicles

International Journal of Energy Research|2022

73 cit.

8

Integrating large language model and digital twins in the context of industry 5.0: Framework, challenges and opportunities

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing|2025

71 cit.

9

A Bi-population Cooperative Optimization Algorithm Assisted by an Autoencoder for Medium-scale Expensive Problems

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica|2022

61 cit.

10

Optimized Blockchain Sharding Model Based on Node Trust and Allocation

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management|2023

52 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1

The resource‐based view within the conversation of strategic management

Strategic Management Journal|1992

3.4k cit.

2

Modularity, flexibility, and knowledge management in product and organization design

Strategic Management Journal|1996

2.5k cit.

3

The House of Quality

Harvard business review|1988

2.3k cit.

4

Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution

Design Studies|2001

2.3k cit.

5

Vendor selection criteria and methods

European Journal of Operational Research|1991

2.1k cit.

6

An Instrument for Measuring the Critical Factors of Quality Management

Decision Sciences|1989

2k cit.

7

The Voice of the Customer

Marketing Science|1993

1.9k cit.

8

Metamodels for Computer-based Engineering Design: Survey and recommendations

Engineering With Computers|2001

1.9k cit.

9

Comparative studies of metamodelling techniques under multiple modelling criteria

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization|2001

1.7k cit.

10

Designerly ways of knowing

Design Studies|1982

1.5k cit.

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