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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Template

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier, covering Innovation and Knowledge Management, Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth. Over its lifetime it has published 10,193 papers, which have received 577,331 citations.

PublisherElsevier
Reference styleNumbered (Elsevier)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inInnovation and Knowledge Management Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Innovation Policy and R&D Economic Growth and Productivity
ISSN0040-1625
Citation impact (2-yr)15.27
h-index286
i10-index6,871
Article processing charge$2,750
Top institutions publishing hereUtrecht University
Journal websitewww.journals.elsevier.com
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Papers published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change per year

233
2014
289
2015
419
2016
372
2017
397
2018
312
2019
542
2020
819
2021
714
2022
765
2023
709
2024
452
2025

Citation impact of Technological Forecasting and Social Change by publication year

13.6K
2014
19K
2015
36.6K
2016
37.3K
2017
41.3K
2018
31.4K
2019
50.1K
2020
66.1K
2021
46.2K
2022
34K
2023
17.4K
2024
3K
2025

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Most-cited papers in Technological Forecasting and Social Change

CB-SEM vs PLS-SEM methods for research in social sciences and technology forecasting

Ganesh Dash, Justin Paul · 9 Aug 2021

This study compares the two widely used methods of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM): Covariance based Structural Equation Modeling (CB-SEM) and Partial Least Squares based Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The first approach is based on covariance, and the second one is based on variance (partial least squares). It further assesses the difference between PLS and Consistent…

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change uses Numbered (Elsevier) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 12 (2023) 45–58.
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