Futures

Papers
(The median citation count of Futures is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach109
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures77
Editorial Board75
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future75
Editorial Board68
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?63
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow63
How universities study the future: A critical view54
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios50
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design47
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives38
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA38
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company37
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies36
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives36
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?34
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean33
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies33
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures33
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies32
Editorial Board31
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts31
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization30
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey29
The thickening of futures28
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia28
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future25
Precarity and Beyond: A Reflection on the work of Richard Slaughter25
Editorial Board24
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education24
Editorial Board24
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future24
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Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"24
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland23
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation23
Caring for technologies, caring for Country23
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence22
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems21
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions21
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario21
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review21
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene21
Strategic openings: On the productivity of blended long-term perspectives in spatial strategy. A Dutch case study21
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution20
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas20
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis20
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205019
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?19
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era19
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies18
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures18
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon18
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies18
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?18
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships17
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces17
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations16
A futures perspective of health, climate change and poverty in the United States16
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering16
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?16
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values16
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives16
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes16
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia15
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future15
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity15
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines15
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism15
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews15
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”15
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia15
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment15
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species14
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility14
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation14
Visioning for cultural industries: CLA inspired scenario method14
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work14
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis13
Science – Post-normal perspectives13
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring13
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth13
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning13
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education13
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions13
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews13
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems13
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic13
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city13
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia13
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices12
Editorial Board12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows12
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh12
Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210012
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school12
Editorial Board12
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul12
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap11
Richard Slaughter: Critical Futures and the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies; Evaluation of a selection of Slaughter’s published work11
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework11
Editorial Board11
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research11
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?11
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response11
The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework11
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 205011
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together11
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness11
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
Anticipating the work to be done10
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok10
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation10
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge10
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland10
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler10
Reparative futures10
Editorial Board10
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination9
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran9
A priceless gift – Reflections on Richard Slaughter’s influence on working and living with the future9
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin9
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions9
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation9
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present9
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?9
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility9
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain9
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice9
Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance9
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 20309
Smashing conformity: Hurling the hammer at the machine9
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets9
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view9
Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future9
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems9
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times9
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?9
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions9
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia9
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future8
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers8
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures8
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age8
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south8
The FutureS of healthcare8
The dysgenics objection to longtermism8
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness8
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective8
Exploring futures for the science of global risk8
Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!8
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy8
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet8
Editorial Board8
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse8
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics8
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Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory8
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline8
Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools8
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers8
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures8
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game8
Editorial Board8
Cultural story models in making sense of a desired post-corona world8
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya8
COVID futures: Social imaginaries of post-pandemic lives in Australia7
Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks7
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response7
Re-thinking the role of exploratory scenarios for adaptive policymaking: An application for land use and transport planning7
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 simulation7
Integrating culture in future speculation: Speculating Chinese wedding futures7
“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations7
Shaping the future: A conceptual review of sociotechnical imaginaries7
Securitising the future: Dystopian migration discourses in Poland and the Czech Republic7
Life in the shadows: Young people’s experiences of climate change futures7
Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies: An analysis of six top journals7
The use of foresight to anticipate and prioritise innovation system failures: The case of machine learning in broadcasting in South Korea7
Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post corona future7
The need for durable institutions for future generations: Mobilising the citizenry7
Plausibility in models and fiction: What integrated assessment modellers can learn from an interaction with climate fiction7
The ethical motivation for post-normal science7
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada7
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 20506
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Exploring trends and topics in hybrid intelligence using keyword co-occurrence networks and topic modelling6
Dealing with complex and uncertain futures: Glimpses from transdisciplinary water research6
The circular economy futures in the making: Transformativity and object ontologies in food waste practices in Finnish households, supermarkets and biogas plants6
A future with no individual ownership is not a happy one: Property theory shows why6
Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification6
Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight6
Editorial Board6
Envisioning inclusive futures: Organizational alternatives beyond the business case approach in the spectrum of utopia and dystopia6
Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment6
The hard work of reparative futures: Exploring the potential of creative and convivial practices in post-conflict Uganda6
Engaging futures: Scenario visualisation for sustainable urban food sharing6
Who wants a reparative future? Social mobility beliefs, and young South African’s narrative positioning within the historic moral community6
Feminist urban futures: Envisioning the future of Ukrainian cities through the lens of the displaced community in Valencia (Spain)6
A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies6
Futures in the present: Unraveling foreclosing and pre-opening desired futures in the local environment with a Bourdieusian perspective6
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy6
How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects6
Towards National Systems Level Foresight? Understanding the role and future directions of citizen participation in the production of Finnish national foresight reports6
A future EU overall strategy for agriculture and forest genetic resources management: Finding consensus through policymakers’ participation6
Brain fingerprinting: A promising future application for predicting mental illness6
Editorial Board5
Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism5
Perceptual model for semantic representation of design futures practice cases: Towards the development of a design futures repository5
Literary futures: Harnessing fiction for futures work5
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy5
Mission accomplished? How food entrepreneurship discursively constructs futures for sustainable food5
Zoöp Futures: Towards an organisational framework for ecological cooperation between humans and more-than-humans5
Disruptive technologies and future societies: Perspectives and forecasts based on Q-methodology5
A forward-looking approach to climate change and the risk of societal collapse5
Consumers anticipating futures beyond the pandemic: A qualitative study5
Mobility business models toward a digital tomorrow: Challenges for automotive manufacturers5
Sociotechnical transitions in the system for providing beef to human food: Scenarios for cultured meat5
Editorial Board5
Solar geoengineering: Scenarios of future governance challenges5
Futures of Outcome‐Based Contracts for industrial equipment: A Disaggregative Delphi study5
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories5
The monstrosity of the search for extraterrestrial life: Preparing for a future discovery5
Personal and collective future thought in times of uncertainty5
Foresight in action: A longitudinal study based on a 25-year journey in the world of policy-oriented foresight5
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience5
Making warming worlds: Future making between climate politics and science – The case of the Structured Expert Dialogue5
Adapting German energy transition rules for Iraq through industry, flexibility, and demand management5
Can energy descent be justified by critiquing 100% renewable energy scenarios? A reply to Floyd et al.5
Prospective structural analysis as instrument for identification of the critical drivers in the oil industry5
Reflections on a hypothetical decentralized grassroots deployment solar geoengineering scenario5
Societal collapse: A literature review5
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making5
The ethics of climate generosity and the “Median Commons”: An experimental future within complexity5
Towards purposeful business schools: Deepening and broadening external engagement5
Bricolage and informal businesses: Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana5
Editorial Board5
Corrigendum to “The future vision(s) of AI health in the nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies” [Futures 149 (2023) 103154]5
Scenario generation and scenario quality using the cone of plausibility5
Special issue introduction: Everyday digital energy futures5
Exploring a method to reduce inconsistency in the group Analytic Hierarchy Process using the Delphi method and Nudge theory5
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