Futures

Papers
(The TQCC of Futures is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-12-01 to 2023-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The importance of achieving foundational Sustainable Development Goals in reducing global risk65
Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization64
The implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals57
A multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable healthcare: From 2030 onwards52
Beyond techno-utopia and its discontents: On the role of utopianism and speculative fiction in shaping alternatives to the smart city imaginary48
Transdisciplinarity: Synthesis towards a modular approach40
Extreme events defined—A conceptual discussion applying a complex systems approach38
Exploring global food system shocks, scenarios and outcomes36
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes35
Management challenges for future digitalization of healthcare services34
Exploring the governance and implementation of sustainable development initiatives through blockchain technology31
Stakeholders’ perspectives on future electric vehicle charging infrastructure developments27
Futures literacy and the diversity of the future26
The adaptiveness of the healthcare system to the fourth industrial revolution: A preliminary analysis25
Can robots tackle late-life loneliness? Scanning of future opportunities and challenges in assisted living facilities24
Tangible futures: Combining scenario thinking and personas - A pilot study on urban mobility24
The role of energy prosumers in the transition of the Finnish energy system towards 100 % renewable energy by 205023
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity23
Assessing climate change’s contribution to global catastrophic risk23
Walking with Energy: Challenging energy invisibility and connecting citizens with energy futures through participatory research22
Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario: How ‘knowledge humility’ reshapes energy futures for post-normal times22
Map-makers and navigators of politicised terrain: Expert understandings of epistemological uncertainty in integrated assessment modelling of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage21
The engagement of home-based businesses in the digital economy21
Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture21
The risk of catastrophic climate change: Future energy implications20
Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa20
Food additives and the future of health: An analysis of the ongoing controversy on titanium dioxide20
The future in sustainability transitions - Interlinkages between the multi-level perspective and futures studies19
Embedding care robots into society and practice: Socio-technical considerations19
Strategy for collectives and common goods19
The application of artificial intelligence in police interrogations: An analysis addressing the proposed effect AI has on racial and gender bias, cooperation, and false confessions19
Unlocking wise digital techno-futures: Contributions from the Degrowth community19
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence19
Ethics of quantification or quantification of ethics?18
The politics of smart expectations: Interrogating the knowledge claims of smart mobility18
Resilient Power: A home-based electricity generation and storage solution for the medically vulnerable during climate-induced power outages18
Intergenerational retrospective viewpoint promotes financially sustainable attitude18
Stakeholders’ preferences for the future of transport in Europe: Participatory evaluation of scenarios combining scenario planning and the multi-actor multi-criteria analysis17
Identifying technology evolution pathways using topic variation detection based on patent data: A case study of 3D printing17
Farewell Alternative Futures?17
Individual futures consciousness: Psychology behind the five-dimensional Futures Consciousness scale17
Agriculture 4.0: A systematic literature review on the paradigm, technologies and benefits17
The future of Telemedicine Cabin? The case of the French students’ acceptability17
An analysis and evaluation of methods currently used to quantify the likelihood of existential hazards17
Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification17
Post-automation16
Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and bureaucratic transformation16
Future tense: Exploring dissonance in young people’s images of the future through design futures methods16
Anticipation, abduction and the economy of research: The normative stance16
The six scenario archetypes framework: A systematic investigation of science fiction films set in the future15
Ethical issues of human enhancements for space missions to Mars and beyond15
When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions15
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values15
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses15
Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!15
‘Solving for X?’ Towards a problem-finding framework to ground long-term governance strategies for artificial intelligence15
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework15
Framing different energy futures? Comparing Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion in Germany15
How future frames materialize and consolidate: The energy transition in Denmark14
Small firms as agents of sustainable change14
Collaborative speculation: Anticipation, inclusion and designing counterfactual futures for appropriation14
The smog of ignorance: Knowledge and wisdom in postnormal times14
Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring14
Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) to support local adaptation planning—A climate service for Flensburg, Germany14
Advanced text-mining for trend analysis of Russia’s Extractive Industries14
Contextualising weak signals: Towards a relational theory of futures knowledge13
Envisioning the future of health systems: Exploratory insights from European countries13
Levelling the playing field? Towards a critical-social perspective on digital entrepreneurship13
Embracing context and complexity to address environmental challenges in the water-energy-food nexus13
There is no such thing as a short-term issue12
Future perspectives of sustainable development: An innovative planning approach to inner areas. Experience of an Italian alpine region12
Matrix purpose in scenario planning: Implications of congruence with scenario project purpose12
Emerging technologies in the renewable energy sector: A comparison of expert review with a text mining software12
Existential risk and human extinction: An intellectual history12
An integrated framework for anticipating the future and dealing with uncertainty in policymaking12
Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future12
The future of pharmaceuticals industry within the triad: The role of knowledge spillovers in innovation process12
The Fragile World Hypothesis: Complexity, Fragility, and Systemic Existential Risk12
Assessing the options for combatting democratic myopia and safeguarding long-term interests12
Linking deliberative evaluation with integrated assessment and modelling: A methodological framework and its application to agricultural water management12
Governing through strategies: How does Finland sustain a future-oriented environmental policy for the long term?12
Building plausible futures: Scenario-based strategic planning of industrial development of Kyrgyzstan11
The World Intellectual Property Organization and the sustainable development agenda11
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response11
Systematic analysis of development in Iran’s tourism market in the form of future study: A new method of strategic planning11
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future11
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together11
Societal collapse: A literature review10
The German energy transition and the eroding consensus on ecological modernization: A radical democratic perspective on conflicts over competing justice claims and energy visions10
Futures literacy through narrative10
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience10
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 205010
Critical mineral sustainable supply: Challenges and governance9
Collaborative imagination: A methodological approach9
Mastering futures literacy in higher education: An evaluation of learning outcomes and instructional design of a faculty development program9
Technology, capital substitution and labor dynamics: global workforce disruption in the 21st century?9
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet9
The social construction of futures9
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation9
Participatory backcasting: Building pathways towards reconciliation?9
Building individual futures capacity through transformative futures learning9
The passing of western civilization9
Foresight and design fictions meet at a policy lab: An experimentation approach in public sector innovation8
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making8
Visions of a Martian future8
Embedding imaginaries- electric vehicles in Sweden's fossil fuel free future8
Technoscience, policy and the new media. Nexus or vortex?8
Creating futures images for sustainable cruise ships: Insights on collaborative foresight for sustainability enhancement8
The Territorial Foresight for the construction of shared visions and mechanisms to minimize social conflicts: The case of Latin America8
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin8
Shifting the perception of water environment problems by introducing “imaginary future generations”—Evidence from participatory workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam8
A simulation exercise for incorporating long-term path dependencies in urgent decision-making8
The sustainable development goals: A universalist promise for the future8
Prospects of a transition to the knowledge economy in Saudi Arabia and Qatar: A critical reflection through the lens of spatial embeddedness and evolutionary governance theory8
The FutureS of healthcare8
A framework for Science Shop processes: Results of a modified Delphi study8
The evolution of Foresight: What evidence is there in scientific publications?8
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy8
Reinvention paths and reinvention paradox: Strategic change in Western Newfoundland communities8
Unifying weak signals definitions to improve construct understanding8
Envisioning the futures of cultural tourism7
(De)futuring democracy: Labs, playgrounds, and ateliers as democratic innovations7
Risks of space colonization7
The adoption, diffusion & categorical ambiguity trifecta of social robots in e-health – Insights from healthcare professionals7
A socio-technical lens on security in sustainability transitions: Future expectations for positive and negative security7
Strategic spatial planning through pragmatic blueprints: Forms and levels of adaptivity in modernist planning of the Dutch IJsselmeerpolders7
Future space missions and human enhancement: Medical and ethical challenges7
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots7
Back to the future: Old values for a new (more equal) world7
Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa7
Integrating uncertainties through participatory approaches: On the burden of cognitive exclusion and infodemic in a post-normal pandemic7
The future of the forest-based bioeconomy in selected southeast European countries7
The Driverless Cars Emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems7
A common ground? Constructing and exploring scenarios for infrastructure network-of-networks7
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?7
Strategy’s futures7
Designing future experiences of the everyday: Pointers for methodical expansion of sustainability transitions research6
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game6
How networked organisations build capacity for anticipatory governance in South East Asian deltas6
Five anticipation communities in complex systems sciences6
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy6
Unpacking the modelling process via sensitivity auditing6
The making of Antarctic futures: Participatory game design at the interface between science and policy6
Better research through more participation? The future of integrated climate change assessments6
Work/family life by 2040: Between a gig economy and traditional roles6
Taking power seriously: Towards a power-sensitive approach for transdisciplinary action research6
A futures perspective of health, climate change and poverty in the United States6
The challenges of futures literacy6
Advancing Decision-Visualization Environments—Empirically informed Design Recommendations6
Collective design anticipation6
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 20506
Decolonial feminisms and degrowth6
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective6
Deriving new anticipation-based policy instruments for attracting research and development and innovation in global value chains to Europe6
From gaps to tangles: A relational framework for the future of the theory-practice debate6
Towards purposeful business schools: Deepening and broadening external engagement6
Effect of proxy voting for children under the voting age on parental altruism towards future generations6
Fifteen shadows of socio-cultural AI: A systematic review and future perspectives6
Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective6
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