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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach	123
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures	89
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future	85
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean	74
Editorial Board	68
Editorial Board	67
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow	64
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?	55
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies	54
How universities study the future: A critical view	42
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios	40
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives	40
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives	39
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies	37
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?	37
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies	36
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures	36
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company	35
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA	35
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design	34
Editorial Board	34
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts	33
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization	32
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey	32
The thickening of futures	31

Precarity and Beyond: A Reflection on the work of Richard Slaughter	27
Editorial Board	26
Caring for technologies, caring for Country	26
Editorial Board	26
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future	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, Japan	26
Editorial Board	26