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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future144
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Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach115
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies95
How universities study the future: A critical view69
Embracing transgender into the future: The contributions of successfully transitioned transgender individuals to gender diverse societies64
The shining: Illuminating philosophy and futures studies61
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies60
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics53
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures50
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow47
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA46
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?38
Discourse in the future of work: How do business organizations and labor unions view automation?38
Future proofing expertise: AI as a power-up, not a takeover35
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design32
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company32
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean32
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 Ecuador31
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies31
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios30
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability29
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives28
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses28
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives28
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Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility25
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization25
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"25
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts25
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation25
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education25
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland25
Caring for technologies, caring for Country24
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future24
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan23
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia23
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario22
(Counter)productive hope: Scrutinising the role of hope in sustainability21
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review21
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Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205021
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene21
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies21
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era20
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?20
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution20
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools20
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures20
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions20
Assessing long-term strategies to effectively counteracting online misogynistic speech using a Delphi-based future scenarios approach20
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis20
Uncovering the building blocks for a just and sustainable future: Towards an agenda for prefigurative research on sustainability transitions19
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas19
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies19
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon19
Urban wind energy futures in the making: Energy plazas, hotspots, and enclaves19
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene18
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies18
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
Entering the age of hybrid futures: A comparative study of human and GPT-generated scenarios18
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?18
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces18
Americans underestimate national levels of concern for future generations: Evidence across collective, governmental and moral considerations18
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment18
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines18
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?18
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering18
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations18
Beyond awareness: Climate games as invitations to care for the future18
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice17
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships17
Snails ahead! Metaphors of change and distributed prefiguration in the degrowth movement17
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems17
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews17
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies: The case for a transcendental futures subdiscipline17
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe16
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work16
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”16
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future15
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility15
Science fiction and innovation: A literature analysis on science fiction-related methods mapped into the innovation process15
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia15
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?15
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Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia14
Measuring the intangible: A multidimensional framework for assessing societal engagement in participatory foresight14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education14
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems14
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational drivers shaping Industry 5.0 and the future of work14
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth14
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species14
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning13
It does (not) get better: Critiquing neoliberal “betterment” and the transformative impacts of queer-inclusive spaces in higher education in Singapore13
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions13
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring13
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city13
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic13
Science – Post-normal perspectives13
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities12
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response12
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Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices12
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210012
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs12
Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh12
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul12
Embracing the digital horizon: Future scenarios for the Dutch higher education system12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik12
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Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research11
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Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows11
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap11
Where will the change come from? Identifying decision-relevant factors in future Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) scenarios to support planning under uncertainty11
Reparative futures11
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Failure of crisis imagination? Temporal worldmaking, tracking error, and non-queer futures at Norges Bank Investment Management11
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?11
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Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler11
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions10
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
Shaping futures wisely: Integrating futures literacy with entrepreneurship10
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Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review10
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok10
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice10
Earth-Cosmos Binary10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 203010
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia10
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present9
The post-digital era: alternative futures9
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets9
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse9
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective9
The bioethics of biomodification for the future of space exploration: Evaluating insights from feminist and non-feminist approaches9
Practising post-normal science through art-science collaborations: Institutionalising new approaches to future-making at the Joint Research Centre9
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times9
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions9
Unlearning borders: A scenario-based approach in a multidisciplinary urban planning studio9
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Speculative futures of artificial intelligence in education: A causal layered analysis of education fiction9
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation9
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline9
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
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