OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Education is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	48
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	26
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	26
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	23
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	23
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	21
Religion, narrative, and the environmental humanities: bridging the rhetoric gap	21
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	20
Influence of charismatic animals on youths’ environmental knowledge and connection to water through the application of virtual reality tours	19
(Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist	16
Linking students’ interest in nature to their self-reported pro-environmental behavior and nature activities – A cross-sectional study in grade 5 to 9	16
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	15
Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world	14
Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice	13
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	12
Housing in the Capitalocene : Environmental education and sustainable living	12
What can the Romans do for us? The role of classics in delivering learning for sustainability	11
Integration of interculturality in education for sustainable development	11
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	11
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	11
Stockholm +50, Tbilisi +45, Rio +30: Research, praxis, and policy	10
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center	10
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene	10
An intersectional feminist food studies praxis: Activism and care in the COVID-19 context	10
Idwi,Xenopus laevis, and African clawed frog: Teaching counternarratives of invasive species in postcolonial ecology	10

WalkingScapes as ecopedagogy	10
Dependent origination: Resonances for the environment and sustainability education	9
Long-term influences of participation in an earth education program in middle school	8
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	8
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	8
The role of environmental ideologies in environmental education	8
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	8
A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions	8
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	8
Tbilisi’s “Sounds Of Silence”—(In)action in the policy ≠ embodiments of environmental education	7
Understanding Austrian middle school students’ connectedness with nature	7
Examining the influence of citizen science participation on individual volunteers in the global South: A case study of hydrologic monitors in Veracruz, Mexico	7
Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students	7
Supporting local school reform toward education for sustainable development: The need for creating and continuously negotiating a shared vision and building trust	7