Great Foresight Periodicals (Journals, Magazines and Print Newsletters)
In Top, STEEPCOP, Multidisciplinary, and Fiction Categories
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Journals are peer-reviewed, academic or professional in focus. Magazines are editor-reviewed. Print Newsletters have the greatest degree of variability in peer-review, content and quality.

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Top Foresight Periodicals
Science, Evolution, and Development
Technology (Engineering, Infotech, Sociotech, Cognotech, Biomedtech)
Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources
Economics, Capitalism, Finance, Globalization, and Innovation Infrastructure
Politics, Security, Democracy, Rights, Health Care, and Sustainability Infrastructure
Society (Big): Culture: Society, Ethics, Media, Art, Design, Education, Religion
Society (Med): Org: Mgmt, Org. Innov. & Entrep, Org. Sustainability & Social Responsibility, Org. Dev.
Society (Small): Personal: Family, Relationships, Careers, and Lifestyle
Multidisciplinary
Fiction
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Top Foresight Periodicals
A. Top English-Language Primary Foresight Journals (Identified To Date)
Note: We are using here the Primary and Secondary classification system ASF is using for global Futures Studies educational programs. See http://accelerating.org/gradprograms.html for more.
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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 (WTA)
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 Prediction Markets (U Buckingham Press)
Articles on all aspects of Prediction Markets, a promising new field of foresight research and policy analysis.
13. 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.
14. Long Range Planning (Elsevier)
A leading international journal of strategic management, aimed at senior managers (UK).
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier)
Method and practice of technological forecasting, tech foresight, and futures studies and planning. Leading journal of its type.
18. World Future Review (WFS)
Referreed journal of transdisciplinary futures research.
19. 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.

B. Select Secondary Foresight Journals and Magazines (Very Partial List)
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Information and Organization
Relationships between information technologies and social organization, and the social construction of IT.
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
Science and technology futures and innovation articles.
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
Fosters discussion of both technological innovation and new ways of thinking about the complex and contested issues of sustainable development. Nice balance between two great political forces, innovation and sustainability.
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
The 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, excellent future focus. 8M circulation.
World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution
Study of system-structuring, evolutionary and developmental change in nature and society.

Science, Evolution, and Development Periodicals

Popular Science
Covers current and emerging technologies, including a section on the newest and upcoming gadgets. Always a little ahead of the curve, though usually not more than 5-10 years. [Eric Kaplan] .
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Technology (Engineering, Infotech, Sociotech, Cognotech, Biomedtech) Periodicals

IEEE Spectrum
Spectrum magazine covers 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. [Chris Schoerning]
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Realistic Future Fiction Periodicals
[Realistic future fiction has major parts which feel like they actually could happen in the future, under the right circumstances. Most fantasy and a lot of science fiction really doesn't count as realistic--there are exceptions however, and if you think that some particular aspect of a fantasy or SF quotation feels realistic, include it here and explain why. Future fiction is a subgenre of general or science fiction that feels realistic most of the way through, even to critical readers. Good future fiction is quite hard to write, as you can imagine.]
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Unclassified Periodicals
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