World Futures

Aims & Scope

The journal provides a venue for leading edge, creative, transdisciplinary contributions.

It encourages the application of new ways of thinking and approaches that draw on the intersection of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

World Futures welcomes critiques of limiting assumptions, as well as the development of new perspectives, on human nature, consciousness, society, and the nature of the universe.

The journal is focused on the exploration, articulation, and application of human potentialities, and the implications for building a sustainable and humanistic future.

It accepts articles, research notes and book reviews and invites essays relevant to its aim in all fields of interest from the sciences to the humanities.

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Chaotic itinerancy as a dynamical basis of hermeneutics in brain and mind

  Citation: 210

  Authors: Ichiro

• Methodology of Transdisciplinarity

  Citation: 143

  Authors: Basarab

• Becoming Transdisciplinary: The Emergence of the Transdisciplinary Individual

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Tanya

• What Might We Say about a Circular Economy? Some Temptations to Avoid if Possible

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Ken

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Energy and Wind-Power Utilization

  Citation: 66

  Authors: L., G., J.

• Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Reflections on Theory and Practice

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Alfonso

• Does “Arab Spring” Mean The Beginning Of World System Reconfiguration?

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Leonid, Andrey

• Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide

  Citation: 44

  Authors: CHINA, BRENDA A.

• Data-Driven Smart Eco-Cities of the Future: An Empirically Informed Integrated Model for Strategic Sustainable Urban Development

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Simon Elias

• World Population, Food, Natural Resources, and Survival

  Citation: 36

  Authors: David, Marcia