OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Futures is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals	70
A multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable healthcare: From 2030 onwards	63
Transdisciplinarity: Synthesis towards a modular approach	47
Management challenges for future digitalization of healthcare services	46
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes	45
Exploring global food system shocks, scenarios and outcomes	42
Exploring the governance and implementation of sustainable development initiatives through blockchain technology	37
Futures literacy and the diversity of the future	37
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence	31
Stakeholders’ perspectives on future electric vehicle charging infrastructure developments	31
The engagement of home-based businesses in the digital economy	27
Can robots tackle late-life loneliness? Scanning of future opportunities and challenges in assisted living facilities	27
The role of energy prosumers in the transition of the Finnish energy system towards 100 % renewable energy by 2050	27
The future of Telemedicine Cabin? The case of the French students’ acceptability	26
Agriculture 4.0: A systematic literature review on the paradigm, technologies and benefits	26
Food additives and the future of health: An analysis of the ongoing controversy on titanium dioxide	26
The adaptiveness of the healthcare system to the fourth industrial revolution: A preliminary analysis	26
Assessing climate change’s contribution to global catastrophic risk	25
Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario: How ‘knowledge humility’ reshapes energy futures for post-normal times	25
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity	23
Framing different energy futures? Comparing Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion in Germany	23
Embedding care robots into society and practice: Socio-technical considerations	22
The risk of catastrophic climate change: Future energy implications	22
Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification	22
Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture	22

When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions	21
Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!	21
The politics of smart expectations: Interrogating the knowledge claims of smart mobility	21
Strategy for collectives and common goods	21
Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and bureaucratic transformation	21
Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa	21
The future in sustainability transitions - Interlinkages between the multi-level perspective and futures studies	20
Resilient Power: A home-based electricity generation and storage solution for the medically vulnerable during climate-induced power outages	20
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses	19
Stakeholders’ preferences for the future of transport in Europe: Participatory evaluation of scenarios combining scenario planning and the multi-actor multi-criteria analysis	19
Identifying technology evolution pathways using topic variation detection based on patent data: A case study of 3D printing	19
Collaborative speculation: Anticipation, inclusion and designing counterfactual futures for appropriation	18
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework	18
Individual futures consciousness: Psychology behind the five-dimensional Futures Consciousness scale	18
The six scenario archetypes framework: A systematic investigation of science fiction films set in the future	18
Critical mineral sustainable supply: Challenges and governance	18
The sustainable development goals: A universalist promise for the future	18
Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) to support local adaptation planning—A climate service for Flensburg, Germany	17
Farewell Alternative Futures?	17
The Fragile World Hypothesis: Complexity, Fragility, and Systemic Existential Risk	17
Societal collapse: A literature review	17
‘Solving for X?’ Towards a problem-finding framework to ground long-term governance strategies for artificial intelligence	17
Post-automation	17
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values	16
Governing through strategies: How does Finland sustain a future-oriented environmental policy for the long term?	16
Levelling the playing field? Towards a critical-social perspective on digital entrepreneurship	16
Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring	16
Small firms as agents of sustainable change	16
Systematic analysis of development in Iran’s tourism market in the form of future study: A new method of strategic planning	15
Embracing context and complexity to address environmental challenges in the water-energy-food nexus	15
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience	15
The smog of ignorance: Knowledge and wisdom in postnormal times	15
Contextualising weak signals: Towards a relational theory of futures knowledge	15
An integrated framework for anticipating the future and dealing with uncertainty in policymaking	14
The World Intellectual Property Organization and the sustainable development agenda	14
The evolution of Foresight: What evidence is there in scientific publications?	14
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together	14
Assessing the options for combatting democratic myopia and safeguarding long-term interests	14
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy	14
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews	13
Futures literacy through narrative	13
Envisioning the future of health systems: Exploratory insights from European countries	13
Linking deliberative evaluation with integrated assessment and modelling: A methodological framework and its application to agricultural water management	13
Building plausible futures: Scenario-based strategic planning of industrial development of Kyrgyzstan	13
There is no such thing as a short-term issue	13
Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future	13
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response	12
The FutureS of healthcare	12
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 2050	12
The passing of western civilization	12

Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future	12
The German energy transition and the eroding consensus on ecological modernization: A radical democratic perspective on conflicts over competing justice claims and energy visions	12
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation	12
The future of pharmaceuticals industry within the triad: The role of knowledge spillovers in innovation process	12
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet	11
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making	11
Collaborative imagination: A methodological approach	11
A socio-technical lens on security in sustainability transitions: Future expectations for positive and negative security	11
A framework for Science Shop processes: Results of a modified Delphi study	11
Embedding imaginaries- electric vehicles in Sweden's fossil fuel free future	11
Building individual futures capacity through transformative futures learning	11
Future space missions and human enhancement: Medical and ethical challenges	11
Participatory backcasting: Building pathways towards reconciliation?	11
Fifteen shadows of socio-cultural AI: A systematic review and future perspectives	11
Technology, capital substitution and labor dynamics: global workforce disruption in the 21st century?	10
Shifting the perception of water environment problems by introducing “imaginary future generations”—Evidence from participatory workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	10
The social construction of futures	10
Towards purposeful business schools: Deepening and broadening external engagement	10
Mastering futures literacy in higher education: An evaluation of learning outcomes and instructional design of a faculty development program	10
The adoption, diffusion & categorical ambiguity trifecta of social robots in e-health – Insights from healthcare professionals	10
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin	10
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 2050	10
Creating futures images for sustainable cruise ships: Insights on collaborative foresight for sustainability enhancement	10
Taking power seriously: Towards a power-sensitive approach for transdisciplinary action research	9
The challenges of futures literacy	9
Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective	9
Sensemaking and lens-shaping: Identifying citizen contributions to foresight through comparative topic modelling	9
The Driverless Cars Emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems	9
Reinvention paths and reinvention paradox: Strategic change in Western Newfoundland communities	9
Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa	9
Imagining transformation: Change agent narratives of sustainable futures	9
Foresight and design fictions meet at a policy lab: An experimentation approach in public sector innovation	9
A futures perspective of health, climate change and poverty in the United States	9
Unifying weak signals definitions to improve construct understanding	9
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 theory	9
The future of the forest-based bioeconomy in selected southeast European countries	9
Integrating uncertainties through participatory approaches: On the burden of cognitive exclusion and infodemic in a post-normal pandemic	8
The Territorial Foresight for the construction of shared visions and mechanisms to minimize social conflicts: The case of Latin America	8
Risks of space colonization	8
Back to the future: Old values for a new (more equal) world	8
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?	8
Futures of the social metabolism: Degrowth, circular economy and the value of waste	8
Envisioning the futures of cultural tourism	8
Effect of proxy voting for children under the voting age on parental altruism towards future generations	8
Collective design anticipation	8
Better research through more participation? The future of integrated climate change assessments	8
(De)futuring democracy: Labs, playgrounds, and ateliers as democratic innovations	8
A simulation exercise for incorporating long-term path dependencies in urgent decision-making	8
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design	8
An outline of future-oriented dialectics: Conceptualising dialectical positions, trajectories and processes in the context of futures research	7
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots	7
Collaborative design prototyping in transdisciplinary research: An approach to heterogeneity and unknowns	7
The ambiguities of uncertainty: A review of uncertainty frameworks relevant to the assessment of environmental change	7
The making of Antarctic futures: Participatory game design at the interface between science and policy	7
Strategy’s futures	7
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game	7
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics	7
A common ground? Constructing and exploring scenarios for infrastructure network-of-networks	7
Disruptive Technologies for e-Diasporas: Blockchain, DAOs, Data Cooperatives, Metaverse, and ChatGPT	7
Advancing Decision-Visualization Environments—Empirically informed Design Recommendations	7
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures	7
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness	7
How to visualise futures studies concepts: Revision of the futures cone	7
Medicine of the future: How and who is going to treat us?	7
Deriving new anticipation-based policy instruments for attracting research and development and innovation in global value chains to Europe	7
Collective scenarios: Speculative improvisations for the Anthropocene	7
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy	7
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario	7
In search of plan(et) B: Irrational rationality, capitalist realism, and space colonization	7
Images of the future for a circular economy: The case of Finland	7
Strategic spatial planning through pragmatic blueprints: Forms and levels of adaptivity in modernist planning of the Dutch IJsselmeerpolders	7