OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Futures is 27. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures	128
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future	97
Editorial Board	92
Editorial Board	78
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow	70
How universities study the future: A critical view	69
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios	66
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives	59
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?	54
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA	46
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?	42
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach	42
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives	41
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company	39
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies	38
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean	36
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design	36
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies	36
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies	35
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization	35
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts	35
Editorial Board	35
The thickening of futures	34
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey	34
Precarity and Beyond: A Reflection on the work of Richard Slaughter	29

Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan	28
Editorial Board	27
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education	27
Editorial Board	27
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario	27
Editorial Board	27
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence	27