Victor Papanek
- Mechanical Engineering top 10%
- Human-Computer Interaction top 2%
- Building and Construction top 5%
- Sociology and Political Science
- Management of Technology and Innovation top 5%
- Co-authors
- R. Buckminster Fuller
- Topics
- Design Education and Practice (2 papers)Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (1 paper)Music Technology and Sound Studies (1 paper)
- Journals
- Design StudiesThe Journal of Creative BehaviorCERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Partner nations
- United States
In The Last Decade
Victor Papanek
13 papers receiving 603 citations
Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 98
- Mechanical Engineering 207
- Human-Computer Interaction 191
- Building and Construction 171
- Sociology and Political Science 110
- Management of Technology and Innovation 109
Countries citing papers authored by Victor Papanek
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Fields of papers citing papers by Victor Papanek
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Victor Papanek. 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 Victor Papanek. The network helps show where Victor Papanek may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Papanek
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Victor Papanek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Victor Papanek 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 Victor Papanek. Victor Papanek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
All Works
| # | Work | Indexed citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture | 8 |
| 2 | Design pour un monde réel | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | |
| 4 | The green imperative : natural design for the real world | 48 |
| 5 | The green imperative | 33 |
| 6 | 2 | |
| 7 | Design for the real world : human ecology and social changebreakdown → | 443 |
| 8 | 1 | |
| 9 | How things don't work | 4 |
| 10 | Diseñar para el mundo real: ecología humana y cambio social | 12 |
| 11 | Nomadic Furniture 2 | 6 |
| 12 | Nomadic furniture : how to build and where to buy lightweight furniture that folds, collapses, stacks, knocks down, inflates or can be thrown away and recycled : Being both a book of instruction and a catalog of access for easy moving | 2 |
| 13 | Design for the Real World | 228 |
| 14 | Design for human scale | 13 |
| 15 | 1 |
About Victor Papanek
Victor Papanek is a scholar working on Architecture, Information Systems and Management and Building and Construction, having authored 15 papers that have together received 802 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Design Education and Practice (2 papers), Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (1 paper) and Music Technology and Sound Studies (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Human-Computer Interaction (191 citations), Business and International Management (41 citations) and Museology (64 citations). Victor Papanek has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include R. Buckminster Fuller. Their work appears in journals such as Design Studies, The Journal of Creative Behavior and CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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