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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures128
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future97
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow70
How universities study the future: A critical view69
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios66
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives59
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?54
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA46
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach42
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?42
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives41
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company39
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies38
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies36
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean36
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design36
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Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies35
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization35
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts35
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey34
The thickening of futures34
Precarity and Beyond: A Reflection on the work of Richard Slaughter29
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan28
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The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education27
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International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario27
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The transformative potential of artificial intelligence27
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland26
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future26
Caring for technologies, caring for Country26
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"25
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation25
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future25
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia25
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures24
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis23
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems23
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution23
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas23
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene23
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?23
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions23
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools23
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon21
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies21
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies21
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review20
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era20
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives19
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity19
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering19
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205019
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines18
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?18
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice18
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships18
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes17
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces17
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations17
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?17
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values17
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future17
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews17
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies17
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia16
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work16
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species16
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism16
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?16
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”16
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility16
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia16
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe16
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic15
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education15
Science – Post-normal perspectives15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth15
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems15
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices15
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring15
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia15
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning15
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
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Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city14
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210013
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik13
Richard Slaughter: Critical Futures and the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies; Evaluation of a selection of Slaughter’s published work13
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response13
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Planning for a future free from rebound effects13
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows13
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene13
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?13
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Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland12
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions12
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework12
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research12
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Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness12
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap12
The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework12
Anticipating the work to be done12
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation11
A priceless gift – Reflections on Richard Slaughter’s influence on working and living with the future11
Reparative futures11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice11
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler11
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok11
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses11
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia10
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet10
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future10
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
Smashing conformity: Hurling the hammer at the machine10
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets10
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions10
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures10
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present10
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?10
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline9
The dysgenics objection to longtermism9
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Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools9
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 20309
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures9
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Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions9
The FutureS of healthcare9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Exploring futures for the science of global risk9
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics9
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south9
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future9
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective9
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Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!9
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse9
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers9
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
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