Primary peer-reviewed journals and editor-reviewed magazines on foresight or futures studies specialties (using ASF rubric). These publications have distinguished themselves at some level in more than one (and ideally several) of ASF's Primary Foresight Specialties. Secondary foresight specialty journals and magazines are listed separately, under the Sci-Tech, Business, and Social, Political, and Humanist periodical groupings.


I. Top English-Language Primary Foresight Journals (identified to date)

1. Contingencies (American Academy of Actuaries)
Good data-backed forecasting and risk analysis models and process. Actually a magazine, but prestigious and with solid editorial criteria for publication.
2. Foresight: The Journal of Futures Studies, Strategic Thinking, and Policy (Emerald)
Important social, economic, political and technological issues which are shaping all our futures and a source of information about futures activity from around the world.
3. Foresight: The Internat'l Journal of Applied Forecasting (IIF)
Applied forecasting design, management, model building, case studies.
4. Futures: The Journal of Forecasting, Planning, and Policy (Elsevier)
Broad coverage of medium and long term futures trends and scenarios.
5. Info (Emerald)
Technological changes shaping the information infrastructure, economy, and society of the 21st century. Good foresight focus.
6. International Journal of Forecasting (Elsevier)
Quantitative and occasional qualitative forecasting methodologies.
7. International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (Inderscience)
Knowledge creation, diffusion and utilisation in foresight, strategic intelligence (SI) and innovation policy.
8. Journal of Business Forecasting (IBF)
Practical analysis and skill development for business-forecasting practitioners.
9. Journal of Evolution and Technology (H+)
e-journal on contemporary research into future science, ethics of emerging tech, and philosophy.
10. Journal of Forecasting (Wiley)
Theoretical, practical, computational and methodological issues in forecasting. Ops research, management science, decision analysis, statistics, and economics.
11. Journal of Futures Studies (Tamkang U)
Foresight, forecasting, long-range planning, visioning and futures research.
12. Journal of the American Planning Association (APA)
Leading U.S. journal for social and policy planning. Since 1935.
13. Journal of Prediction Markets (U Buckingham Press)
Articles on all aspects of Prediction Markets, a promising new field of foresight research and policy analysis.
14. Journal of Social Change (Walden U)
Applied research and theory on social change that improves the human condition and progresses people, groups, organizations, cultures, and society.
15. Long Range Planning (Elsevier)
A leading international journal of strategic management, aimed at senior managers (UK).
16. NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale (Springer)
Forum for consideration of ethical and social issues of nanotechnology. Nicely augments and grounds popular discussion of these issues.
17. Policy Futures in Education (Symposium)
Promoting foresighted debate in education among academics, government, think-tanks and agencies on education policy and and theory. Innovative and experimental.
18. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier)
Method and practice of technological forecasting, tech foresight, and futures studies and planning. Leading journal of its type.
19. World Future Review (WFS)
Referreed journal of transdisciplinary futures research.
20. World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution (Taylor & Francis)
Study of system-structuring, evolutionary and developmental change in nature and society.

For an abstracts database of several of these journals, see Futurum, Finland Futures Research Center's new platform for searching academic futures research journals.

II. Top Non-English Primary Foresight Journals (a starter list)

Futuribles (Futuribles Group) [French]
Journal of prospective studies and foresight. 40 year history. (Bertrand and Hugues de Jouvenel)


III. Top Primary Foresight Magazines (a subjective and starter list)

Big Ideas in Technology (Goodwin Proctor LLP)
A legal and practical guide for innovative tech companies. Twice a year.
Discover
Award-winning general interest science and technology reporting.
IEEE Spectrum
Current and future tech trends and developments. From autonomous machines to video games, they cover a very broad spectrum (hence the name) and are backed by a trusted organization.
Popular Science
Current and emerging tech, including latest (and mostly faddish) gadgets. Always looking a little ahead of the curve, though usually not more than 5-10 years.
Seed: Science as Culture
Explores the deep ideas, personalities, and cultural effects of science.
Strategy + Business (BoozAllen)
Great U.S. business strategy quarterly. Strong foresight focus.
Technology Review
A leader in technology innovation reporting. Exemplary future awareness.
The Futurist (WFS)
Futures-related scanning magazine. Reasoned global and technological optimism.
Wired
The digerati's culture, opinion, and technology magazine. Trendy, strong commercial, freedom, and style focus. 8M circulation.
Yes!
Concerned with building a more just, sustainable, and compassionate future with articles about economic alternatives and peace options.

IV. Top Primary Foresight Journals or Magazines No Longer Publishing (Read the Archives!) (a starter list)
Future Survey (WFS)
An excellent monthly abstract of books, articles and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about global, national, societal, organizational, and personal futures.


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