OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Futures is 26. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment	95
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives	95
On the present-future impact of AI technologies on personnel selection and the exponential increase in meta-algorithmic judgments	72
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies	68
Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus: Diffusion of innovations and knowledge transfer	64
Editorial Board	62
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 2100	59
Exploring trends and topics in hybrid intelligence using keyword co-occurrence networks and topic modelling	54
The engagement of home-based businesses in the digital economy	46
Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight	44
Mastering futures literacy in higher education: An evaluation of learning outcomes and instructional design of a faculty development program	44
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 2050	34
The IT revolution part 4: Transcending the matrix	34
Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective	33
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives	33
The ethics of doing human enhancement ethics	32
The ethical motivation for post-normal science	31
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response	31
Participatory mapping in exploratory scenario planning: Necessity or luxury?	31
On the icy slopes of expertise: How a Cold War-era solution to the problem of expert opinion in science might transform the epistemology of simulation	30
Dealing with complex and uncertain futures: Glimpses from transdisciplinary water research	30
Fifteen shadows of socio-cultural AI: A systematic review and future perspectives	28
Human agency and the technoscientific dilemma: Contesting the role of technology in shaping our collective futures	28
Slow adoption of EVs under a weak policy regime: Future scenarios of EVs development and diffusion in Iran	27
Planetary scale climatic change through bioengineering the microbial world. A technofix imaginary	27

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