OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Online local natural hazards education for young adults: assessing program efficacy and changes in risk perception for Texas natural hazards	33
The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning	17
Exploring urban and community resilience: key lessons from student research on resilient cities	14
Smartphone GIS: exploring technological competency in active learning across geography	13
Editorial: they think it’s all over…	11
Teaching topographic map- and image-based geomorphic analysis: an example from alpine glacial geomorphology	11
The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education	10
Teaching and learning emotional geographies	10
Hope and grief in the human geography classroom	10
Floating in space: teaching atmosphere in human geography	9
Building quantitative literacy in critical human geography curriculum	8
Metaverse in in the geography lecture classroom? Evaluating ‘group VR’ possibilities using the multiplayer ‘Wooorld’ VR app	8
Speaking your feelings in the moment: teaching geographic thought with emotion	8
Exploration and practice of the use of mobile devices to assist in general geological field practice	8
Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus	7
Teaching sports geography	7
What enables student geography teachers to thrive during their PGCE year and beyond?	7
An investigation of undergraduate students’ spatial thinking about groundwater	7
Courageous and compassionate teaching: international reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic	7
Student employability enhancement through fieldwork: purposefully integrated or a beneficial side effect?	7
Scaffolding geospatial epistemic discomfort: a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research	6
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors	6
A critical incident analysis of inclusive fieldwork with students as co-researchers	6
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies	6
Learning geographical information systems through first principles of instruction – effects on student experiences and geocapabilities	6

Assessing the influence of traditional in-seat, online, and emergency remote teaching (ERT) modalities on sustainability learning in human geography	5
Sustainable urban development research in the time of COVID-19: reflections from doctoral researchers	5
Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education	5
Commercial city building games as pedagogical tools: what have we learned?	5
Podcasting urban geographies: examining the utility of student-generated research podcasts for deep learning and education for sustainable development	4
Pandemic pedagogies: reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework	4
Adopting and using geospatial technologies for teaching geography in Latin American higher education	4
The IPCC reports and HE Geography: opportunities lost and found	4
Using GIS for flood hazard assessment	4
Getting punk and personal: creating and evaluating podcasts and zines as pedagogy for teaching and learning in critical geographical methodologies	4
Why students participate in international fieldwork programs: an exploratory study	4
River science: an educational resource for understanding and learning to survive flooding and environmental change	4
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers	3
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies	3
Geography crosses media: an approach for multi-skilling students in higher education	3
Lockdown lessons: an international conversation on resilient GI science teaching	3
The mobility of experiential learning pedagogy: transferring ideas and practices from a large- to a small-campus setting	3
How wide is the gap? Comparing geography graduates’ labor market success with that of peers from business and computer science	3
A systematic review of immersive virtual reality applications in geography higher education	3
An introduction to the co-creation of policy briefs with youth and academic teams	3
Students’ comparison competencies in geography: results from an explorative assessment study	3
Messy mapping: activating student lifeworlds through the handmade visual analysis of a literary text	3
Playing with Star Trek in the critical geography classroom: STEM education and otherwise possibilities	3
The role of social enterprise in student employability: the case of SIDshare, a co-curricular student led social enterprise	2
Teaching The Tragedy of the Commons through an Iterative, Performance-based, Embodied Cognition Pedagogy	2
Obtaining geographical competences through online cartography of familiar and unfamiliar urban heritage: lessons from student workshops	2
Integrating contemplative pedagogy and anti-oppressive pedagogy in geography higher education classrooms	2
Understanding city dynamics: using geolocated social media in a problem-based activity as an investigative tool to enhance student learning	2
Assessing ChatGPT for GIS education and assignment creation	2
Education for sustainable development with transdisciplinary-oriented courses - experiences and recommendations for future collaborations in higher education teaching	2
Beyond knowledge exchange: doctoral training, collaborative research and reflective pedagogies in human geography	2
For a pedagogy of hope: imagining worlds otherwise	2
Ethnogeomorphology and landscape-as-place: bridging physical, human, and GIS geographies in higher education	2
Teaching geographies of the far-right in Germany – conceptualising hate and fear as didactic challenges	2
Teaching a geography field methods course amid the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections and lessons learned	2
Designing inclusive community-based geography research experiences across the spectrum of ability	2
Experiencing (dis)comforting pedagogies: learning critical geography beyond the here and now	2
Introduction to perspectives on developing geospatial expertise symposium	2
Engaging geography students through innovation in statistics teaching	2
Footballing journeys: migration, citizenship and national identity	2
GIS learning and college students’ acquisition and understanding of spatial concepts	2
Deep mapping in geography education: learning about a distant place and people in a summer school as a ‘committed outlier’	2
Working toward a place-based online pedagogy	2
Spatialising Sport Management	2
Geography excursions with a smartphone app or a teacher: what works best?	2
Assessing first-year geography-major students’ knowledge of climate change and their educational needs – a study in Wuhan, China	2
Building bridges: the impact of scaffolds in PBL on the learning of South African pre-service geography teachers	2
Teaching information literacy in an undergraduate class on the geography of the Middle East	2
Digesting ourselves and others through a critical pedagogy of food and race	2
Anthropogenic emissions or just a lot of hot air? Using air pollution to teach quantitative methods to “mathophobic” first-year geography students	2

Using “Autogeography,” sense of place and place-based approaches in the pedagogy of geographic thought	1
The paradox of the ‘sustainable fieldtrip’? Exploring the links between geography fieldtrips and environmental sustainability	1
Field-based local stream research in undergraduate classes: an inquiry-based approach	1
The effect of emotional experiences in fieldwork: embodied evidence from a visual approach	1
Navigating personal and disciplinary frontiers: engaging with undergraduate geography students’ reflections on their geographical education	1
A problem-based learning course to teach Brazilian biology students about the viral hepatitis from a health geography perspective	1
Learning to teach climate change: students in teacher training and their progression in pedagogical content knowledge	1
Community organising in higher education: activist community-engaged learning in geography	1
Teaching “wicked” problems in geography	1
Integrating ArcGIS Online and digital story mapping for active learning in systematic geography courses	1
A studio approach to teaching biosocial convergence science	1
Going solo: students’ strategies for coping with an independent GIS project	1
Implementation of a climate decision support system in an undergraduate weather and climate classroom	1
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum	1
Correction	1
What kind of GEES specialists does the labour market really need? Content analysis of job adverts in selected countries	1
CBL and living labs: towards a methodology for teaching sustainability transitions in urban planning education	1
Structural model of formation of geoecological competence of tourism students	1
The effects of interdisciplinarity and internationality of group compositions in student fieldwork	1
How you teach changes who you reach: understanding the effect of teaching modality on engagement, interest, and learning in hydrology	1
Learning by feeling: excursions into the affective landscape	1
Self-assessment in student’s learning and developing teaching in geoinformatics – case of Geoportti self-assessment tool	1
Impact of open educational resources on student performance in an introductory Geography course	1
Ensuring timely completion and successful thesis outcomes: a case study of an online GIS master’s degree program	1
A “Token of Love”: the role of emotions in student field trips teaching critical development geographies	1
Emotions from and beyond the classroom. An experiment in teaching and sharing emotional methodologies in a geography course	1