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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future151
Editorial Board122
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach119
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics100
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures76
Editorial Board75
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow63
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company61
Embracing transgender into the future: The contributions of successfully transitioned transgender individuals to gender diverse societies58
The shining: Illuminating philosophy and futures studies50
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies48
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 Ecuador47
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability46
Discourse in the future of work: How do business organizations and labor unions view automation?39
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios37
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives35
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives35
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies32
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies32
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA32
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses31
Future proofing expertise: AI as a power-up, not a takeover30
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean30
Editorial Board29
How universities study the future: A critical view29
Editorial Board29
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Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility27
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization27
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts26
Caring for technologies, caring for Country26
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"26
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan26
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia25
A strategic lifecycle sustainability framework for cislunar habitat deployment25
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation25
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education25
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future24
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland23
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario23
(Counter)productive hope: Scrutinising the role of hope in sustainability22
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Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene22
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205022
Assessing long-term strategies to effectively counteracting online misogynistic speech using a Delphi-based future scenarios approach21
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era21
Americans underestimate national levels of concern for future generations: Evidence across collective, governmental and moral considerations21
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?21
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions21
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures21
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis21
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution21
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies20
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene20
Urban wind energy futures in the making: Energy plazas, hotspots, and enclaves20
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon20
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review20
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas20
Uncovering the building blocks for a just and sustainable future: Towards an agenda for prefigurative research on sustainability transitions19
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering19
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools19
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations19
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?19
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies19
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies19
Entering the age of hybrid futures: A comparative study of human and GPT-generated scenarios18
Beyond awareness: Climate games as invitations to care for the future18
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines18
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems18
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice18
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity18
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships18
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?18
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment18
A global outlook on LGBTI social (ex)inclusion through 2030: Insights from queer and post colonial futures perspectives17
Snails ahead! Metaphors of change and distributed prefiguration in the degrowth movement17
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces17
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”16
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies: The case for a transcendental futures subdiscipline16
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia16
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews16
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future15
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational drivers shaping Industry 5.0 and the future of work15
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia15
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe15
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility15
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work15
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?15
Editorial Board14
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic14
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia14
Science fiction and innovation: A literature analysis on science fiction-related methods mapped into the innovation process14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth14
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city13
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities13
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems13
Measuring the intangible: A multidimensional framework for assessing societal engagement in participatory foresight13
Science – Post-normal perspectives13
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring13
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices13
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
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning13
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species13
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210012
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik12
Editorial Board12
Failure of crisis imagination? Temporal worldmaking, tracking error, and non-queer futures at Norges Bank Investment Management12
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?12
Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Editorial Board12
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs12
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school12
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
Where will the change come from? Identifying decision-relevant factors in future Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) scenarios to support planning under uncertainty12
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap12
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh12
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Editorial Board11
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler11
Reparative futures11
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Embracing the digital horizon: Future scenarios for the Dutch higher education system11
Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review11
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions11
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research11
Editorial Board11
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice11
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation11
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Knowledge management approach in foresight studies – A systematic literature review10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions10
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
Earth-Cosmos Binary10
Building industry in 2040: An explorative scenario analysis of alternative sustainability pathways10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
The bioethics of biomodification for the future of space exploration: Evaluating insights from feminist and non-feminist approaches10
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
Crafting alternative AI narratives through co-speculative zine-making10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions9
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Editorial Board9
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future9
Editorial Board9
The post-digital era: Alternative futures9
Practising post-normal science through art-science collaborations: Institutionalising new approaches to future-making at the Joint Research Centre9
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 20309
Groundwater governance: Integrating HHRA and strategic foresight to mitigate arsenic risk in Central Sindh, Pakistan9
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline9
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation9
Shaping futures wisely: Integrating futures literacy with entrepreneurship9
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia9
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective9
Unlearning borders: A scenario-based approach in a multidisciplinary urban planning studio9
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future9
Speculative futures of artificial intelligence in education: A causal layered analysis of education fiction9
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