Data sample
For our sample of science-informed future fore-sighting initiatives in
ocean and marine studies we used the twelve papers included in thisReviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries Special Issue (Table 1)
which are outputs from the large Future Seas initiative
(https://futureseas2030.org/). We considered this to be a relevant
sample to analyse as these papers covered a wide range of marine issues
and dimensions, and the authorship teams covered a diversity of
disciplines and knowledge systems. The co-authors were of all career
stages, from 28 different organisations, and comprising 20 different
nationalities with, collectively, substantial research experience across
all seven continents (Nash et al., 2020a). In addition to Indigenous and
Traditional knowledge holders, the disciplinary expertise of the Future
Seas project team included ecology, climate science, oceanography,
marine engineering, mathematics, philosophy, social sciences, economics,
finance, political sciences, law, behavioural psychology, medicine, and
public health, with many disciplines being represented in most papers
(Nash et al., 2020a). At the stage of review, all papers were pre-peer
review drafts.