Futures

Papers
(The TQCC of Futures is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future146
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Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach100
Discourse in the future of work: How do business organizations and labor unions view automation?84
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics83
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures82
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow61
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA56
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios55
How universities study the future: A critical view48
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies47
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability45
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company44
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?43
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design42
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies41
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives41
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives39
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses38
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean38
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies34
Future proofing expertise: AI as a power-up, not a takeover33
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Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland31
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Caring for technologies, caring for Country27
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts27
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization27
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education26
Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility26
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"25
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future25
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan25
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia24
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario24
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future24
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence24
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation24
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis23
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas23
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205022
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?22
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era21
(Counter)productive hope: Scrutinising the role of hope in sustainability21
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools21
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene21
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene21
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems20
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution20
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies19
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon19
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies19
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures18
A global outlook on LGBTI social (ex)inclusion through 2030: Insights from queer and post colonial futures perspectives18
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity18
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review18
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions18
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies17
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
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations17
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice17
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?17
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems17
Snails ahead! Metaphors of change and distributed prefiguration in the degrowth movement17
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces16
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?16
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational drivers shaping Industry 5.0 and the future of work16
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future16
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment16
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews16
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility16
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”16
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia16
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes16
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives16
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia16
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work16
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies: The case for a transcendental futures subdiscipline16
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Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring15
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism15
Science – Post-normal perspectives15
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities15
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems15
Measuring the intangible: A multidimensional framework for assessing societal engagement in participatory foresight15
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe15
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices14
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning14
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species14
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic14
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city14
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210013
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap13
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school13
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Editorial Board12
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Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions11
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?11
Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review11
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation11
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler11
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs11
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research11
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Reparative futures11
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok11
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice11
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Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows11
Embracing the digital horizon: Future scenarios for the Dutch higher education system11
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Is China evolving a new model for civilization?10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions10
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets10
Shaping futures wisely: Integrating futures literacy with entrepreneurship10
Practising post-normal science through art-science collaborations: Institutionalising new approaches to future-making at the Joint Research Centre10
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions10
The bioethics of biomodification for the future of space exploration: Evaluating insights from feminist and non-feminist approaches10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future10
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present10
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures10
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia10
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation10
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 203010
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