Futures

Papers
(The TQCC of Futures is 9. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future138
Editorial Board109
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach90
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies79
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean75
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives69
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA68
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability58
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics53
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures48
Editorial Board47
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company44
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?42
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow42
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives39
How universities study the future: A critical view39
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?39
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses38
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies38
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios37
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design35
Editorial Board33
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies33
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Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland29
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The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education29
Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility28
Caring for technologies, caring for Country28
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Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts27
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization25
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan24
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"24
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia24
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence24
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future23
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future23
The thickening of futures23
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation23
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario23
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas22
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures22
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review21
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis21
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon21
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?20
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution20
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205020
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions20
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems20
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene19
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era19
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools19
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies18
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies18
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene18
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?18
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity17
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines17
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?17
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering17
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations17
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives17
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment17
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems16
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships16
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia16
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces16
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies16
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility16
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes16
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews16
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work16
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia15
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational Drivers Shaping Industry 5.0 and the Future of Work15
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth15
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe15
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?15
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education15
Science – Post-normal perspectives15
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”15
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism15
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices15
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic15
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species14
Editorial Board14
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia14
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems14
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh13
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring13
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210013
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik13
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city13
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school13
Editorial Board13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs13
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows12
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research12
Editorial Board12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review11
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Reparative futures11
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response11
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok11
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Anticipating the work to be done11
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?11
Editorial Board11
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Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions11
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation10
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation10
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future10
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions10
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets10
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
Editorial Board9
The FutureS of healthcare9
Re-thinking the role of exploratory scenarios for adaptive policymaking: An application for land use and transport planning9
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south9
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective9
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia9
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline9
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures9
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia9
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
Exploring futures for the science of global risk9
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game9
Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers9
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet9
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures9
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse9
The dysgenics objection to longtermism9
Editorial Board9
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics9
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 20309
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present9
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