Futures

Papers
(The median citation count of Futures is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future168
Editorial Board135
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics134
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow86
Embracing transgender into the future: The contributions of successfully transitioned transgender individuals to gender diverse societies86
The nexus between large-scale innovation projects and relational infrastructures: A longitudinal approach to anticipatory practices in the infrastructuring of Yachay, the City of Knowledge of Ecuador77
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability66
Discourse in the future of work: How do business organizations and labor unions view automation?62
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives56
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses51
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean49
How universities study the future: A critical view48
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures44
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives44
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies41
The shining: Illuminating philosophy and futures studies41
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies38
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios36
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA35
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies34
Foresight for post-growth research: Integrating horizon scanning and scenario building for a sustainable future34
Future proofing expertise: AI as a power-up, not a takeover34
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company33
Editorial Board32
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization32
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Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach32
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan32
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"30
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts30
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education29
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation28
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future27
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland27
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia26
A strategic lifecycle sustainability framework for cislunar habitat deployment26
Caring for technologies, caring for Country25
Uncovering the building blocks for a just and sustainable future: Towards an agenda for prefigurative research on sustainability transitions24
Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility24
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario24
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?23
(Counter)productive hope: Scrutinising the role of hope in sustainability23
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools23
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis23
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene23
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205023
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures23
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution23
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene23
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Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies22
Americans underestimate national levels of concern for future generations: Evidence across collective, governmental and moral considerations22
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas22
Urban wind energy futures in the making: Energy plazas, hotspots, and enclaves22
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions22
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies22
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era21
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review21
Assessing long-term strategies to effectively counteracting online misogynistic speech using a Delphi-based future scenarios approach21
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering20
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines20
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment20
Snails ahead! Metaphors of change and distributed prefiguration in the degrowth movement20
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations20
Entering the age of hybrid futures: A comparative study of human and GPT-generated scenarios20
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice20
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity19
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems19
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships19
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?19
Beyond awareness: Climate games as invitations to care for the future19
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?19
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces19
A global outlook on LGBTI social (ex)inclusion through 2030: Insights from queer and post colonial futures perspectives18
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies18
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews18
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia17
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”17
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies: The case for a transcendental futures subdiscipline17
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work17
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future17
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia17
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe16
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility16
Science fiction and innovation: A literature analysis on science fiction-related methods mapped into the innovation process16
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?16
It does (not) get better: Critiquing neoliberal “betterment” and the transformative impacts of queer-inclusive spaces in higher education in Singapore15
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia15
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices15
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education15
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities15
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Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring15
Measuring the intangible: A multidimensional framework for assessing societal engagement in participatory foresight15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth15
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational drivers shaping Industry 5.0 and the future of work15
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species15
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning15
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210014
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh14
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school14
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
Editorial Board13
Where will the change come from? Identifying decision-relevant factors in future Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) scenarios to support planning under uncertainty13
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows13
Planning for a future free from rebound effects13
Individual futuring orientations framework: Exploring aromantic and asexual futures as alternatives to top-down foresight13
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis13
Failure of crisis imagination? Temporal worldmaking, tracking error, and non-queer futures at Norges Bank Investment Management13
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs13
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap13
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik13
Editorial Board13
Embracing the digital horizon: Future scenarios for the Dutch higher education system13
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation12
Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review12
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler12
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses12
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research12
Editorial Board12
Building industry in 2040: An explorative scenario analysis of alternative sustainability pathways12
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions12
Knowledge management approach in foresight studies – A systematic literature review12
Reparative futures12
Editorial Board12
Editorial Board12
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice12
Earth-Cosmos Binary12
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge12
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205012
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?12
Crafting alternative AI narratives through co-speculative zine-making11
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain11
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia11
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future11
The post-digital era: Alternative futures11
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets11
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems11
The bioethics of biomodification for the future of space exploration: Evaluating insights from feminist and non-feminist approaches11
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination11
Editorial Board11
Speculative futures of artificial intelligence in education: A causal layered analysis of education fiction11
Practising post-normal science through art-science collaborations: Institutionalising new approaches to future-making at the Joint Research Centre11
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran11
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility11
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times11
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present11
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 203011
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation11
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future10
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective10
Unlearning borders: A scenario-based approach in a multidisciplinary urban planning studio10
Shaping futures wisely: Integrating futures literacy with entrepreneurship10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions10
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya10
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline10
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse10
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia10
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions10
Groundwater governance: Integrating HHRA and strategic foresight to mitigate arsenic risk in Central Sindh, Pakistan9
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
Generative artificial intelligence for managerial foresight9
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“We need long-term thinking, predictability, and reliability.” Imagined futures of the German heating and housing transition9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools9
Editorial Board9
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Plausibility in models and fiction: What integrated assessment modellers can learn from an interaction with climate fiction9
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures9
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
Exploring futures for the science of global risk9
Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post corona future9
The dysgenics objection to longtermism9
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness8
Securitising the future: Dystopian migration discourses in Poland and the Czech Republic8
Integrating culture in future speculation: Speculating Chinese wedding futures8
Life in the shadows: Young people’s experiences of climate change futures8
“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations8
The use of foresight to anticipate and prioritise innovation system failures: The case of machine learning in broadcasting in South Korea8
Urban agriculture and the built environment: Possibilities and barriers in future scenarios8
Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies: An analysis of six top journals8
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Re-thinking the role of exploratory scenarios for adaptive policymaking: An application for land use and transport planning8
Cultural story models in making sense of a desired post-corona world8
COVID futures: Social imaginaries of post-pandemic lives in Australia8
Editorial Board7
Editorial Board7
Envisioning inclusive futures: Organizational alternatives beyond the business case approach in the spectrum of utopia and dystopia7
The interaction between justice and anticipation: Four mechanisms of reproducing injustice7
Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight7
Understanding games as a site of utopian resonance7
Multi-scale scenario building for community development: Exploring transport infrastructure futures in the Circumpolar North7
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Brain fingerprinting: A promising future application for predicting mental illness7
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
The hard work of reparative futures: Exploring the potential of creative and convivial practices in post-conflict Uganda7
Futures in the present: Unraveling foreclosing and pre-opening desired futures in the local environment with a Bourdieusian perspective7
Shaping the future: A conceptual review of sociotechnical imaginaries7
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An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy7
Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment7
Intersecting futures studies and challenge-based learning: Elements of queering in futures education7
How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects7
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The ethical motivation for post-normal science6
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Beyond linear progress: Towards a material-temporal understanding of infrastructural unmaking6
Societal collapse: A literature review6
The monstrosity of the search for extraterrestrial life: Preparing for a future discovery6
Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism6
Personal and collective future thought in times of uncertainty6
The circular economy futures in the making: Transformativity and object ontologies in food waste practices in Finnish households, supermarkets and biogas plants6
Exploring trends and topics in hybrid intelligence using keyword co-occurrence networks and topic modelling6
A future EU overall strategy for agriculture and forest genetic resources management: Finding consensus through policymakers’ participation6
The ethics of climate generosity and the “Median Commons”: An experimental future within complexity6
Foresight in action: A longitudinal study based on a 25-year journey in the world of policy-oriented foresight6
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy6
Who wants a reparative future? Social mobility beliefs, and young South African’s narrative positioning within the historic moral community6
Zoöp Futures: Towards an organisational framework for ecological cooperation between humans and more-than-humans6
Prioritizing nano- and micro-scale technologies for Iran’s STI strategy: A Delphi-based foresight framework6
Disruptive technologies and future societies: Perspectives and forecasts based on Q-methodology6
Dealing with complex and uncertain futures: Glimpses from transdisciplinary water research6
A future with no individual ownership is not a happy one: Property theory shows why6
Mission accomplished? How food entrepreneurship discursively constructs futures for sustainable food6
A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies6
Engaging futures: Scenario visualisation for sustainable urban food sharing6
Feminist urban futures: Envisioning the future of Ukrainian cities through the lens of the displaced community in Valencia (Spain)6
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories6
Personas in scenario building: Integrating human-centred design methods in foresight5
Exploring potential futures: Evaluating the influence of deep uncertainties in urban planning through scenario planning: A case study in Rome, Italy5
Pluralizing urban futures: A multicriteria mapping analysis of online taxis in Indonesia5
Strategic scenario building for planning energy resources: The case of Araucania, Chile5
Addressing the challenge of a “common” Future: The French contemporary mobilizations against injustice in face of the ecological and social emergencies5
Representing posterity: Two challenges5
The politics of potentiality: Responsible sourcing, ASM formalization and future making in the DRC’s cobalt mines5
Consumers anticipating futures beyond the pandemic: A qualitative study5
Designing to elicit future affective potential: Café 20575
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