OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using virtual reality (VR) for teaching and learning in geography: fieldwork, analytical skills, and employability	31
Teaching (super) wicked problems: authentic learning about climate change	23
A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems	23
Learning to teach climate change: students in teacher training and their progression in pedagogical content knowledge	20
Integrating contemplative pedagogy and anti-oppressive pedagogy in geography higher education classrooms	14
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers	14
Fostering constructive thinking about the ‘wicked problems’ of team-work and decision-making in tourism and geography	13
Translating green economy concepts into practice: ideas pitches as learning tools for sustainability education	13
Combining proximate with online learning in real-time: ambidextrous teaching and pathways towards inclusion during COVID-19 restrictions and beyond	12
Digital humanitarians for the Sustainable Development Goals: YouthMappers as a hybrid movement	11
Design precepts for online experiential learning programs to address wicked sustainability problems	10
Towards the Nature of Geography for geography education: an exploratory account, learning from work on the Nature of Science	10
Teaching a geography field methods course amid the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections and lessons learned	9
Changing geopolitics of higher education: economic effects of inbound international student mobility to Hungary	9
Unsettling feelings in the classroom: scaffolding pedagogies of discomfort as part of decolonising human geography in higher education	9
Education for sustainable development with transdisciplinary-oriented courses - experiences and recommendations for future collaborations in higher education teaching	8
Commercial city building games as pedagogical tools: what have we learned?	7
Learning by feeling: excursions into the affective landscape	7
Envisioning indigenized geography: a two-eyed seeing approach	7
A GPS-enabled portable air pollution sensor and web-mapping technologies for field-based learning in health geography	7
Hope and grief in the human geography classroom	7
Pandemic pedagogies: reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework	7
The effect of emotional experiences in fieldwork: embodied evidence from a visual approach	7
An indoor landscape for instruction of 3-D aerial drone imagery	7
An investigation of undergraduate students’ spatial thinking about groundwater	6

A place-based approach to blended learning	6
Student evaluations of using virtual reality to investigate natural hazard field sites	6
Teaching “wicked” problems in geography	6
Authentic learning using mobile applications and contemporary geospatial information requirements related to Environmental Science	6
Hopeful approaches to teaching and learning environmental “wicked problems”	6
Teaching geographies of the far-right in Germany – conceptualising hate and fear as didactic challenges	6
Lockdown lessons: an international conversation on resilient GI science teaching	6
Conveying map finesse: thematic map making essentials for today’s university students	5
The Last Hurrah (and The Long Haul): co-creation of theatre as climate change education	5
How wide is the gap? Comparing geography graduates’ labor market success with that of peers from business and computer science	5
Teaching critical physical geography	5
The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning	5
Podcasting urban geographies: examining the utility of student-generated research podcasts for deep learning and education for sustainable development	5
Towards a pedagogical policy turn in geography	5
Effectiveness of visual communication and collaboration tools for online GIS teaching: using Padlet and Conceptboard	4
The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education	4
Developing pre-service teachers’ fieldwork pedagogical and content knowledge through designing enquiry-based fieldwork	4
Beyond knowledge exchange: doctoral training, collaborative research and reflective pedagogies in human geography	4
Understanding city dynamics: using geolocated social media in a problem-based activity as an investigative tool to enhance student learning	4
‘Nature-enhanced learning’ and geography education	4
Big ideas in the geography curriculum: nature, awareness and need	4
Using “Autogeography,” sense of place and place-based approaches in the pedagogy of geographic thought	3
Fieldwork from desktop: webdoc for teaching in the time of pandemic	3
How to thrive when studying online	3
Students’ comparison competencies in geography: results from an explorative assessment study	3
Speaking your feelings in the moment: teaching geographic thought with emotion	3
Rethinking learning contexts through the concept of atmosphere and through contemporary art	3
Web GIS as a pedagogical tool in tourist geography course: the effect on spatial thinking ability and self-efficacy	3
Adopting and using geospatial technologies for teaching geography in Latin American higher education	3
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies	3
Teaching human geography using a couplet game	3
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum	3
Going solo: students’ strategies for coping with an independent GIS project	3
Geographic literacy in spain with mental maps	3
Understanding climate trends in Central America through practical problem-based learning	3
The mobility of experiential learning pedagogy: transferring ideas and practices from a large- to a small-campus setting	3
Understanding the ‘degree awarding gap’ in geography, planning, geology and environmental sciences in UK higher education through peer research	2
For a pedagogy of hope: imagining worlds otherwise	2
Experiencing (dis)comforting pedagogies: learning critical geography beyond the here and now	2
Exploration and practice of the use of mobile devices to assist in general geological field practice	2
Playing with Star Trek in the critical geography classroom: STEM education and otherwise possibilities	2
River science: an educational resource for understanding and learning to survive flooding and environmental change	2
The academic staff profile of Geographers at higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa: the challenges for transformation	2
Obtaining geographical competences through online cartography of familiar and unfamiliar urban heritage: lessons from student workshops	2
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors	2
Emotions from and beyond the classroom. An experiment in teaching and sharing emotional methodologies in a geography course	2
Community organising in higher education: activist community-engaged learning in geography	2
When an international student stays at home: defining an international student in distance education	2
The use of “ writing retreats ” in supporting geography and environmental science undergraduate independent research projects	2
Geopolitical music to the students’ minds	2

Nimble at work: equipping students with first-order and second-order thinking	2
Online local natural hazards education for young adults: assessing program efficacy and changes in risk perception for Texas natural hazards	2
A problem-based learning course to teach Brazilian biology students about the viral hepatitis from a health geography perspective	2
Let’s talk about emotional labor—some reflections from the field	2
Use of an augmented reality sand table for satellite remote sensing education	2
What can cultural geography offer to the employability agenda? A reflection on powerful knowledge	2
Building quantitative literacy in critical human geography curriculum	2
Spatialising Sport Management	2
Advocating for blended pedagogy as a shift to more holistic inclusive geography	2
Double-blind multiple peer reviews to change students’ reading behaviour and help them develop their writing skills	2
A “Token of Love”: the role of emotions in student field trips teaching critical development geographies	2