Futures

Papers
(The TQCC of Futures is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future168
Editorial Board135
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics134
Editorial Board107
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow86
Embracing transgender into the future: The contributions of successfully transitioned transgender individuals to gender diverse societies86
The nexus between large-scale innovation projects and relational infrastructures: A longitudinal approach to anticipatory practices in the infrastructuring of Yachay, the City of Knowledge of Ecuador77
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability66
Discourse in the future of work: How do business organizations and labor unions view automation?62
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives56
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses51
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean49
How universities study the future: A critical view48
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures44
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives44
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies41
The shining: Illuminating philosophy and futures studies41
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies38
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios36
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA35
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies34
Foresight for post-growth research: Integrating horizon scanning and scenario building for a sustainable future34
Future proofing expertise: AI as a power-up, not a takeover34
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company33
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach32
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan32
Editorial Board32
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization32
Editorial Board32
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"30
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts30
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education29
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation28
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future27
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland27
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia26
A strategic lifecycle sustainability framework for cislunar habitat deployment26
Caring for technologies, caring for Country25
Uncovering the building blocks for a just and sustainable future: Towards an agenda for prefigurative research on sustainability transitions24
Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility24
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario24
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?23
(Counter)productive hope: Scrutinising the role of hope in sustainability23
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools23
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis23
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene23
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205023
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures23
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution23
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene23
Editorial Board22
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies22
Americans underestimate national levels of concern for future generations: Evidence across collective, governmental and moral considerations22
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas22
Urban wind energy futures in the making: Energy plazas, hotspots, and enclaves22
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions22
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies22
Assessing long-term strategies to effectively counteracting online misogynistic speech using a Delphi-based future scenarios approach21
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era21
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review21
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice20
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering20
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines20
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment20
Snails ahead! Metaphors of change and distributed prefiguration in the degrowth movement20
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations20
Entering the age of hybrid futures: A comparative study of human and GPT-generated scenarios20
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity19
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems19
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships19
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?19
Beyond awareness: Climate games as invitations to care for the future19
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?19
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces19
A global outlook on LGBTI social (ex)inclusion through 2030: Insights from queer and post colonial futures perspectives18
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies18
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews18
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia17
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”17
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies: The case for a transcendental futures subdiscipline17
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work17
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future17
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia17
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe16
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility16
Science fiction and innovation: A literature analysis on science fiction-related methods mapped into the innovation process16
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?16
It does (not) get better: Critiquing neoliberal “betterment” and the transformative impacts of queer-inclusive spaces in higher education in Singapore15
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia15
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices15
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education15
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities15
Editorial Board15
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring15
Measuring the intangible: A multidimensional framework for assessing societal engagement in participatory foresight15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth15
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational drivers shaping Industry 5.0 and the future of work15
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species15
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning15
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210014
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh14
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school14
Editorial Board13
Where will the change come from? Identifying decision-relevant factors in future Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) scenarios to support planning under uncertainty13
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows13
Planning for a future free from rebound effects13
Individual futuring orientations framework: Exploring aromantic and asexual futures as alternatives to top-down foresight13
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis13
Failure of crisis imagination? Temporal worldmaking, tracking error, and non-queer futures at Norges Bank Investment Management13
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs13
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap13
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik13
Editorial Board13
Embracing the digital horizon: Future scenarios for the Dutch higher education system13
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205012
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?12
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation12
Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review12
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler12
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses12
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research12
Editorial Board12
Building industry in 2040: An explorative scenario analysis of alternative sustainability pathways12
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions12
Knowledge management approach in foresight studies – A systematic literature review12
Reparative futures12
Editorial Board12
Editorial Board12
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice12
Earth-Cosmos Binary12
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge12
Crafting alternative AI narratives through co-speculative zine-making11
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain11
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia11
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future11
The post-digital era: Alternative futures11
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets11
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems11
The bioethics of biomodification for the future of space exploration: Evaluating insights from feminist and non-feminist approaches11
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination11
Editorial Board11
Speculative futures of artificial intelligence in education: A causal layered analysis of education fiction11
Practising post-normal science through art-science collaborations: Institutionalising new approaches to future-making at the Joint Research Centre11
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran11
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility11
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times11
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present11
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 203011
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation11
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