[13][14][15] One of the first usages of the term horizon scanning as related to futures studies appeared in 1995 in a paper discussing trends in information technology and forecasting the year 2005.
[16] Then, horizon scanning was used to name detection and early evaluation of health care technologies in a European workshop in September 1997, whose participants were 27 policy makers and researchers from 12 countries.
[7] Policy makers and planners of health services were the main target groups for knowledge produced by horizon scanning.
[38] In the Russian Federation, horizon scanning is performed by Higher School of Economics and financed by Ministry of Education and Science.
Swedish Defence Research Agency has developed a software tool named HSTOOL for HS of scientific literature in 2019.
[40] The scientific literature is searched, clustered in groups that correspond to subject subfields and evaluated based on the bibliometric numbers.