In the field of design, novelty is widely acknowledged as a key parameter for creativity assessments. Accordingly, scholars have proposed several definitions, metrics and procedures to assess novelty for different purposes. Although the availability of many alternatives allows researchers to perform in-depth investigations, it makes the orientation among the available combinations of novelty concepts, types and metrics quite hard. In such a manifold context, the aim of this work is to map the literature about novelty assessment in engineering design. To this purpose, a systematic literature review has been performed on the Scopus database to identify a relevant set of contributions through specific search strategies and skimming processes. A map of novelty metrics has been obtained, which shows that most of them belong to the uncommonness type, while others need further investigations. The obtained results are intended to support scholars in browsing the different metrics, when selecting the most suited for their specific research objectives.

在设计领域，新颖性被广泛认为是创造力评估的关键参数。因此，学者们提出了几种定义、度量和程序来评估不同目的的新颖性。尽管许多替代方案的可用性允许研究人员进行深入调查，但它使得在新颖概念、类型和指标的可用组合之间进行定位变得非常困难。在如此多方面的背景下，这项工作的目的是绘制有关工程设计新颖性评估的文献。为此，对 Scopus 数据库进行了系统的文献审查，以通过特定的搜索策略和略读过程确定一组相关的贡献。得到了一张新奇指标的地图，可以看出它们中的大多数都属于罕见类型，而其他人则需要进一步调查。获得的结果旨在支持学者浏览不同的指标，选择最适合其特定研究目标的指标。