Table 1.
Design concepts identified by experts.
Table 2.
Publication type split.
Fig 1.
Scheme of the heterogeneous graph, connecting authors (A), publications (P), years (Y), and concepts (C).
Fig 2.
Overview of the pipeline used in this work, highlighting sources and methods to characterise the landscape of Italian design research.
Fig 3.
Publication intensity over time.
Fig 4.
Publications type trend above 1%.
Fig 5.
Publication type over time.
Fig 6.
Average number of OpenAlex concepts per publication type over time: (a) concepts related to design, and (b) collateral concepts.
Fig 7.
Heterogeneous graphs of ACNs in Italian design over the past 25 years.
Each graph displays the network of publications, authors, years, and concepts.
Table 3.
Summary of heterogeneous graph analytics for different time periods.
Fig 8.
Distributions of the number of authors per connected component over time.
Table 4.
Summary of graph analytics for different time periods.
Fig 9.
Bumpchart plot displaying the bigram ranking variation over 5 decades from 2000 to 2024.
Fig 10.
Line chart plot displaying the number of publications per topic over 5 decades from 2000 to 2024.