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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach	109
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures	77
Editorial Board	75
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future	75
Editorial Board	68
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?	63
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow	63
How universities study the future: A critical view	54
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios	50
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design	47
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA	38
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives	38
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company	37
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies	36
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives	36
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?	34
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean	33
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies	33
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures	33
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies	32
Editorial Board	31
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts	31
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization	30
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey	29
The thickening of futures	28

The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia