| Rethinking design thinking: Part I L Kimbell Design and culture 3 (3), 285-306, 2011 | 1726 | 2011 |
| Designing for service as one way of designing services L Kimbell International journal of design 5 (2), 2011 | 603 | 2011 |
| Rethinking design thinking: Part II L Kimbell Design and Culture 4 (2), 129-148, 2012 | 549 | 2012 |
| Beyond design thinking: Design-as-practice and designs-in-practice L Kimbell CRESC Conference, Manchester, 2009 | 305 | 2009 |
| Rethinking design thinking: part I. Design and Culture, 3 (3), 285–306 L Kimbell | 290 | 2011 |
| Prototyping and the new spirit of policy-making L Kimbell, J Bailey CoDesign 13 (3), 214-226, 2017 | 268 | 2017 |
| Applying Design Approaches to Policy Making: Discovering Policy Lab L Kimbell University of Brighton, 2015 | 212 | 2015 |
| Social design futures: HEI research and the AHRC L Armstrong, J Bailey, G Julier, L Kimbell University of Brighton, 2014 | 206 | 2014 |
| The Turn to Service Design L Kimbell Juiler and Moor (eds). Design and Creativity. Policy, management and …, 2009 | 194 | 2009 |
| Service Innovation Handbook L Kimbell BIS Publishers, 2014 | 170 | 2014 |
| Designing controversies and their publics T Venturini, D Ricci, M Mauri, L Kimbell, A Meunier Design Issues 31 (3), 74-87, 2015 | 165 | 2015 |
| Design practices in design thinking L Kimbell European Academy of Management 5, 1-24, 2009 | 147 | 2009 |
| The social design methods menu L Kimbell, J Julier perpetual beta, 2012 | 103 | 2012 |
| Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space C Selin, L Kimbell, R Ramirez, Y Bhatti Futures 74, 4-17, 2015 | 89 | 2015 |
| Keeping the system going: Social design and the reproduction of inequalities in neoliberal times G Julier, L Kimbell Design Issues 35 (4), 12-22, 2019 | 86 | 2019 |
| Rethinking Design Thinking: Part II. Design and Culture, 4 (2), 129–148 L Kimbell | 83 | 2012 |
| Design Thinking and the Big Society: From solving personal troubles to designing social problems S Blyth, L Kimbell London: Actant and Taylor Haig, 2011 | 83 | 2011 |
| After the toolkit: Anticipatory logics and the future of government L Kimbell, L Vesnić-Alujević Policy Design and Practice 3 (2), 95-108, 2020 | 80 | 2020 |
| Insights from service design practice L Kimbell 8th European Academy of Design Conference, 249-253, 2009 | 79 | 2009 |
| Design in the time of policy problems L Kimbell Proceedings of DRS2016: Design+ Research+ Society-Future-Focused Thinking 8, 2016 | 78 | 2016 |