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Academic Collaboration Leaderboards


Explore Leading Academics in Collaboration in Design Worldwide.

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Leaderboards

1

Wei Jingye

(ID #180555)

13.938

Leaderboard Score.

2

ChungSheng Chen

(ID #179403)

13.345

Leaderboard Score.

3

Beijing Jiaotong University

(ID #352027)

8.400

Leaderboard Score.

4

Jun Wang

(ID #242053)

6.207

Leaderboard Score.

5

Weiwei Zhang

(ID #150877)

4.886

Leaderboard Score.

6

Guangpeng Yue

(ID #298608)

4.844

Leaderboard Score.

7

Bomu Xue

(ID #169667)

3.738

Leaderboard Score.

8

Zhou Leijing

(ID #112694)

3.149

Leaderboard Score.

9

Shih-Yuan Wang and Yu-Ting Sheng

(ID #339425)

2.025

Leaderboard Score.

10

Team JIZAI ARMS

(ID #341989)

2.025

Leaderboard Score.

11

Lu Yi

(ID #301391)

2.020

Leaderboard Score.

12

Eduardo Guizar Vukovich

(ID #342051)

1.924

Leaderboard Score.

13

Yao Lu, Zhou Yun, Zhou Xu

(ID #346904)

1.600

Leaderboard Score.

14

I-Jen Sung

(ID #352094)

1.600

Leaderboard Score.

15

Xixi Quan, Kau Chan and Junming Chen

(ID #336552)

1.296

Leaderboard Score.

16

Mauro Chiarella and Veizaga-Gronda team

(ID #292611)

1.225

Leaderboard Score.

17

Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao

(ID #340839)

1.224

Leaderboard Score.

18

Ziqiang He

(ID #276318)

1.044

Leaderboard Score.

19

Wei Sun

(ID #331018)

900

Leaderboard Score.

20

Wenwen Qian

(ID #349724)

900

Leaderboard Score.

21

Dayan Shangguan Design Team

(ID #351914)

900

Leaderboard Score.

22

Beijing Forestry University

(ID #353723)

900

Leaderboard Score.

23

Can Zhu

(ID #316163)

832

Leaderboard Score.

24

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

(ID #326951)

832

Leaderboard Score.

25

Erlu Ni

(ID #346805)

800

Leaderboard Score.

26

Ying Zhou

(ID #287636)

784

Leaderboard Score.

27

Ruiqi Yao

(ID #302246)

784

Leaderboard Score.

28

Ali Shtarbanov

(ID #302495)

784

Leaderboard Score.

29

BBMLab Bio-Based Materials Design Lab

(ID #333728)

729

Leaderboard Score.

30

Jian Sun

(ID #334250)

729

Leaderboard Score.

31

Xi Zhao, Shaoyang Ren,Gang Li,Jiaqi Xuan

(ID #332171)

729

Leaderboard Score.

32

Yen Chang

(ID #336861)

729

Leaderboard Score.

33

Jun Zhou

(ID #337842)

729

Leaderboard Score.

34

Gizem Deniz Guneri

(ID #320198)

729

Leaderboard Score.

35

Chien Yu-Chieh

(ID #335169)

724

Leaderboard Score.

36

Jiang Wu

(ID #312720)

656

Leaderboard Score.

37

Jintao Li

(ID #327709)

656

Leaderboard Score.

38

Rosalie Hsin-Ju Lin

(ID #337965)

648

Leaderboard Score.

39

Zhixiang Tao

(ID #343351)

648

Leaderboard Score.

40

Yongjun Chen

(ID #296140)

637

Leaderboard Score.

41

Yongjun Chen, Huang Zhang, Lei Xu

(ID #272558)

576

Leaderboard Score.

42

Hye Jun Youn

(ID #325737)

576

Leaderboard Score.

43

Moohan Kim

(ID #345949)

400

Leaderboard Score.

44

Ruilin Ouyang

(ID #345978)

400

Leaderboard Score.

45

Sirong Yang

(ID #344637)

400

Leaderboard Score.

46

Xiaojing Su

(ID #346922)

400

Leaderboard Score.

47

Kun Chen

(ID #348461)

400

Leaderboard Score.

48

亦民 徐

(ID #348612)

400

Leaderboard Score.

49

QUT School of Design

(ID #354396)

400

Leaderboard Score.

50

Children's Hospital Wayfinding Team

(ID #354650)

400

Leaderboard Score.

51

Michael Budig

(ID #254077)

324

Leaderboard Score.

52

Gang Wang

(ID #261430)

324

Leaderboard Score.

53

Jiajuan Li

(ID #334451)

324

Leaderboard Score.

54

Liu Song, Chai Jing, Zhang Zhixin

(ID #334796)

324

Leaderboard Score.

55

Lin Zhong-Wei

(ID #335164)

324

Leaderboard Score.

56

Xingzhuo Chen

(ID #337895)

324

Leaderboard Score.

57

I-D Tech of Nile University

(ID #343345)

324

Leaderboard Score.

58

Wang Jinhua

(ID #321885)

256

Leaderboard Score.

59

Ding Jian

(ID #179936)

225

Leaderboard Score.

60

Shumeng Hou

(ID #281520)

196

Leaderboard Score.

61

Antonia Fedder

(ID #286911)

196

Leaderboard Score.

62

Guo Hongyu

(ID #276041)

196

Leaderboard Score.

63

Lingguang Chen

(ID #299440)

196

Leaderboard Score.

64

Hane R., Mitsue G. M., Togo K., Yash B.

(ID #254552)

144

Leaderboard Score.

65

Sean Wei-Zhe Lin

(ID #255258)

144

Leaderboard Score.

66

E.Aparo, L.Soares, J.Teixeira, J.Passos

(ID #270118)

144

Leaderboard Score.

67

Zhao Yan

(ID #141671)

99

Leaderboard Score.

Design Leaderboard Features


Time-relevant rankings to discover who is best today.

Global Rankings

Respects and honors the absolute best designers in all categories, in all countries, in all groups.

Category Rankings

Recognizes the excellent success of outstanding designers for a given design industry.

In-Group Rankings

Celebrates the success of professional designers, design agencies, start-ups, and large enterprises distinctly.

In-Year Rankings

Provides insights into who is/was best of best in design in a given year, for all categories, all countries, all groups.

Metal Rankings

Distinguishes and clusters designers based on their design award achievement levels.

Group × Category

Honours the very best professional designers, design agencies and brands within a given category.

Group × Year

Highlights the outstanding achievements of designers, design agencies and brands for a given year.

Group × Metal

Provides insights into design award achievements of large brands, design agencies and design professionals.

Designer Profiles

Promotes high-ranking designers in the design leaderboards with statistics and historical data.

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Prestigious Rankings and Ratings for Good Design

There are many prestigious rankings and ratings systems for design, but most of these focus on life-time achievements or popuplarity. Design Leaderboards is all about recent successes, helping you discover rising talents and most innovative brands today.

Premium Features


Already included premium and exclusive features.

Meritocratic

Design Leaderboards are achievement based rankings.

Time Relevant

Latest and current achievements have higher weight for rankings.

Infographics

Ranked entities are provided free Design Leaderboard Infographics.

Certificate

Ranked entities are provided free Design Leaderboards Certificate.

Universal

Rankings are inclusive for all design industries from all countries.

Recognition

Design Leaderboards recognizes outstanding designers.

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INCLUSION FOR WINNERS

  • 1 Digital Nomination
  • Exhibition
  • Yearbook
  • Trophy
  • Certificate
  • Media Relations
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FREE

INCLUSION FOR WINNERS

  • 1 Pro-Nomination
  • Gala-Night
  • Exhibition
  • Yearbook
  • Trophy
  • Press Release
  • Media Relations

GOLD TICKET

FREE

INCLUSION FOR WINNERS

  • 1 Pro-Nomination
  • Gala-Night
  • Exhibition
  • Yearbook
  • Trophy
  • Added Prestige

Popular Questions


Time-relevancy is the main difference. Almost all other prestigious and prominent rankings for good design, such as the World Design Rankings, R+ Designer Rankings, DAC Design Classifications, are based on lifetime achievements of ranked entities; as such any and all past awards and accolades for good design contributes to the rankings with more or less same importance, even if such achievements were over 10 years ago. While this class of rankings respectfully recognize the lifetime achievements of the award-winning entities, because of their focus on lifetime achievements and equal weight for past and recent successes, these systems do not necessarily help you easily discover who is best of best in design, at right this moment. Design Leaderboards is time-relevant and gives exponentially more weight to recent successes of the awarded designers, and helps you discover who is best of best in design today, right now; this is the most significant difference between Design Leaderboards and other meritocratic ranking and rating systems for good design.

Design Leaderboards remove barriers of entry, and reduces gatekeeping. Because most other prestigious and prominent rankings for good design, such as the World Design Rankings, R+ Designer Rankings, DAC Design Classifications, are based on lifetime achievements of ranked entities, this creates a significant barrier of entry for new comers; innovative upstarts, creative young designers, radical start-ups, and newly awarded designers and upcoming brands find it difficult to get listed in other ranking systems where there are entities with dozens if not hundreds of achievements over decades that carry them to the top of the rankings. Journalists and media members use these rankings to feature designers and brands that incorporate good design, as such Design Leaderboards create immense value for newly awarded designers and help them get further recognition, publicity and awareness for their award-winning good designs.

Design Leaderboards platform is run and managed by the A' Design Award and Competition. To get included in the Design Leaderboards, you need to be a winner of the A' Design Award. A' Design Award is an international design accolade for good design where nominated entries are voted by a grand jury panel of prominent academics, influential journalists, and experienced design professionals. Designers from all industries and all countries take part to attain national fame and international prestige. Winners of the A' Design Award are granted the A' Design Prize that includes over 80 benefits such as invitation to Gala-Night in Italy, Physical Exhibition of Awarded Works, pagination and inclusion of awarded works in a Hardcover Yearbook, 3D Metal Printed Award Trophy in luxury black box, printed and framed Certificate, among many other benefits including but not limited to complimentary lifetime inclusion in Design Leaderboards. Read more and enter your works to the A' Design Awards for awards consideration and potential rankings inclusion.

Yes, of course. You will get included in the Design Leaderboards for free if you win the A' Design Award since inclusion in Design Leaderboards is one of the many perks awarded to you within the context of the A' Design Prize. Learn more about the A' Design Prize now.

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