Noé Vargas-Hernández

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Noé Vargas-Hernández is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Noé Vargas-Hernández has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 7 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Noé Vargas-Hernández's work include Design Education and Practice (11 papers), Product Development and Customization (7 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (6 papers). Noé Vargas-Hernández is often cited by papers focused on Design Education and Practice (11 papers), Product Development and Customization (7 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (6 papers). Noé Vargas-Hernández collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Noé Vargas-Hernández's co-authors include Jami J. Shah, Stephen M. Smith, Joshua D. Summers, Steven M. Smith, Zoé Lacroix, Julie Linsey, Mahmoud Dinar, Larry Leifer and Jonathan Cagan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Mechanical Design, Design Studies and The Journal of Creative Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Noé Vargas-Hernández

12 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Metrics for measuring ideation effectiveness
    2003 749 citations Jami J. Shah, Stephen M. Smith et al. Design Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Noé Vargas-Hernández United States 9 1.1k 735 418 210 147 13 1.4k
Petra Badke‐Schaub Netherlands 21 1.1k 1.0× 653 0.9× 409 1.0× 371 1.8× 110 0.7× 78 1.8k
Katherine Fu United States 17 1.1k 0.9× 535 0.7× 429 1.0× 150 0.7× 195 1.3× 74 1.6k
Saeema Ahmed‐Kristensen Denmark 18 813 0.7× 291 0.4× 415 1.0× 217 1.0× 310 2.1× 112 1.4k
Philip Cash Denmark 22 692 0.6× 366 0.5× 316 0.8× 177 0.8× 127 0.9× 81 1.3k
Seda Yılmaz United States 16 850 0.7× 538 0.7× 225 0.5× 98 0.5× 78 0.5× 43 1.1k
Thomas J. Howard Denmark 15 651 0.6× 332 0.5× 332 0.8× 111 0.5× 277 1.9× 78 1.2k
Elies Dekoninck United Kingdom 15 630 0.6× 407 0.6× 264 0.6× 155 0.7× 148 1.0× 64 1.2k
L. H. Shu Canada 22 1.1k 0.9× 391 0.5× 351 0.8× 105 0.5× 221 1.5× 84 1.5k
Vimal Viswanathan United States 16 627 0.6× 311 0.4× 259 0.6× 90 0.4× 116 0.8× 71 879
Henri Christiaans Netherlands 14 699 0.6× 468 0.6× 201 0.5× 163 0.8× 48 0.3× 41 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Noé Vargas-Hernández

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Fields of papers citing papers by Noé Vargas-Hernández

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Noé Vargas-Hernández. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Noé Vargas-Hernández. The network helps show where Noé Vargas-Hernández may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Noé Vargas-Hernández

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Noé Vargas-Hernández. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Noé Vargas-Hernández based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Noé Vargas-Hernández. Noé Vargas-Hernández is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Cagan, Jonathan, Mahmoud Dinar, Jami J. Shah, et al.. (2013). Empirical Studies of Design Thinking: Past, Present, Future. 15 indexed citations
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Shah, Jami J., Steven M. Smith, & Noé Vargas-Hernández. (2006). Multilevel Aligned Empirical Studies of Ideation: Final Results. 2006. 171–180. 3 indexed citations
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Vargas-Hernández, Noé & Jami J. Shah. (2005). PRINCIPLES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER AIDED CONCEPTUAL DESIGN TOOL.
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Smith, Steven M., et al.. (2005). Empirical studies of creative cognition in idea generation. 3–20. 10 indexed citations
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Vargas-Hernández, Noé & Jami J. Shah. (2004). 2nd-CAD: A Tool for Conceptual Systems Design in Electromechanical Domain. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 4(1). 28–36. 20 indexed citations
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Vargas-Hernández, Noé, Jami J. Shah, & Zoé Lacroix. (2003). Development of a Computer Aided Conceptual Design Tool for Complex Electromechanical Systems. 2 indexed citations
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Shah, Jami J., et al.. (2003). Empirical Studies of Design Ideation: Alignment of Design Experiments With Lab Experiments. 847–856. 45 indexed citations
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Shah, Jami J., Stephen M. Smith, & Noé Vargas-Hernández. (2003). Metrics for measuring ideation effectiveness. Design Studies. 24(2). 111–134. 749 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vargas-Hernández, Noé, et al.. (2001). Influence of Design Representation on Effectiveness of Idea Generation. 39–48. 64 indexed citations
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Summers, Joshua D., et al.. (2001). Comparative Study of Representation Structures for Modeling Function and Behavior of Mechanical Devices. 165–178. 10 indexed citations
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Shah, Jami J., et al.. (2001). Collaborative Sketching (C‐Sketch) — An Idea Generation Technique for Engineering Design. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 35(3). 168–198. 193 indexed citations
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Shah, Jami J., et al.. (2000). Guidelines for Experimental Evaluation of Idea Generation Methods. 287–301. 3 indexed citations
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Shah, Jami J., et al.. (2000). Evaluation of Idea Generation Methods for Conceptual Design: Effectiveness Metrics and Design of Experiments. Journal of Mechanical Design. 122(4). 377–384. 262 indexed citations

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