Scientometric analysis of research on future images in the world's most prestigious scientific publications

Due to its transdisciplinary nature, the field of future studies is a meeting place of various topics, one of the most important topics; The images are from the future. The aim of this research was to analyze scientific articles on the subject of images of the future in the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, which provided a mapping of scientific productions related to images of the future, regarding which fields, individuals, publications, organizations and countries contributed to the publication of articles on images of the future, as well as what highly cited articles and topics were trending between 2019 and 2024. The present research is of applied type and has been carried out by using scientific methods and in particular the analysis of synonyms and co-occurrence. The statistical population of this research is Web of Science (2019 to 2024) and VOS Viewer software was used to draw scientific maps. The results have shown that the fields of history and sociology are the most used fields, Russia has the most researchers, future images, artificial intelligence and science are trending topics, and people such as Arran Gare, Petri Tapio, and Victor Tito have done the most research on future images.