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<p>This editorial reflects on eighteen years of editorship of&#xa0;<i>Research in Engineering Design</i>&#xa0;(RIED), combining personal insights with an exploratory AI-assisted bibliometric analysis of the journal’s output from 2008 to 2025. It outlines a sustained agenda to improve design research legitimacy by emphasizing rigorous methodology, meaningful questions, robust referencing, and reflexive practice, and by addressing challenges of reproducibility and incomplete reporting. The editorial describes efforts to increase stakeholder awareness and participation through transparent communication of policies, ethics, review processes, and invitations to scholarly debate. Treating the journal as a designed object, the paper reviews strategic choices in editorial structures, scope, and review practices, and reflects on reactive initiatives triggered by methods debates, COVID-19, climate crises, and sustainability concerns. A co-word and thematic analysis portray RIED as a thematic network spanning design theory and processes, human-centered design, systems and modularity, sustainability, manufacturing/DFX, and AI and digital transformation, highlighting both stable cores and emerging topics. The editorial closes by summarizing key contributions and open questions for design research and by marking a leadership transition to a new Editor-in-Chief as an opportunity for renewal.</p>

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What we have learned: reflections on eighteen years of editorship of research in engineering design

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    2026年2月13日

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  • Yoram Reich

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This editorial reflects on eighteen years of editorship of Research in Engineering Design (RIED), combining personal insights with an exploratory AI-assisted bibliometric analysis of the journal’s output from 2008 to 2025. It outlines a sustained agenda to improve design research legitimacy by emphasizing rigorous methodology, meaningful questions, robust referencing, and reflexive practice, and by addressing challenges of reproducibility and incomplete reporting. The editorial describes efforts to increase stakeholder awareness and participation through transparent communication of policies, ethics, review processes, and invitations to scholarly debate. Treating the journal as a designed object, the paper reviews strategic choices in editorial structures, scope, and review practices, and reflects on reactive initiatives triggered by methods debates, COVID-19, climate crises, and sustainability concerns. A co-word and thematic analysis portray RIED as a thematic network spanning design theory and processes, human-centered design, systems and modularity, sustainability, manufacturing/DFX, and AI and digital transformation, highlighting both stable cores and emerging topics. The editorial closes by summarizing key contributions and open questions for design research and by marking a leadership transition to a new Editor-in-Chief as an opportunity for renewal.