Futures

Papers
(The TQCC of Futures is 9. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future131
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach103
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The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies73
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies73
How universities study the future: A critical view68
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios65
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives58
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA47
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies46
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability44
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics43
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean40
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company40
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow38
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?37
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures36
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Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives35
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?35
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Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design35
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan29
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization29
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"29
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts29
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey28
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future28
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland27
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The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education26
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The thickening of futures23
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario23
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia23
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation23
Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility23
Caring for technologies, caring for Country23
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence23
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures22
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future22
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems21
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene21
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas21
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions20
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review20
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon20
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene20
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?20
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution20
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis20
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies19
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205019
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era19
(Counter)productive hope: Scrutinising the role of hope in sustainability18
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems18
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools18
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?18
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies18
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines17
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies17
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice17
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives17
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment17
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces17
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations17
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity16
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future16
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships16
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism16
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews16
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes16
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?16
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?15
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth15
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work15
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia15
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews15
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia15
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”15
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe15
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems15
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic14
Science – Post-normal perspectives14
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring14
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Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species14
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities14
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions13
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school13
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning13
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh13
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis13
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs13
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education13
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices13
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210013
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik13
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows12
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework12
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?12
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response12
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Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
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Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research11
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Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review11
Planning for a future free from rebound effects11
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions11
Anticipating the work to be done10
Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness10
Reparative futures10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet10
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler10
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok10
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice10
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia10
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205010
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures9
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?9
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 20309
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures9
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia9
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south9
The FutureS of healthcare9
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets9
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future9
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?9
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions9
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Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions9
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present9
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation9
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
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