Futures

4.5k papers and 98.4k indexed citations

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The 4.5k papers published in Futures in the last decades have received a total of 98.4k indexed citations. Papers published in Futures usually cover Sociology and Political Science (1.1k papers), Global and Planetary Change (580 papers) and Management Science and Operations Research (480 papers) specifically the topics of Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (424 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (349 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (191 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Futures are Jerome R. Ravetz, Silvio Funtowicz, Trevor Williams, Richard A. Slaughter, Lutz E. Schlange, Spyros Makridakis, Sohail Inayatullah, Jonathan Gershuny, Erich Jantsch and John Robinson.

In The Last Decade

Futures

3.1k papers receiving 69.0k citations

Countries where authors publish in Futures

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Futures. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Futures with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Futures more than expected).

Fields of papers published in Futures

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Futures. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Futures.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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