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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring urban and community resilience: key lessons from student research on resilient cities	18
Smartphone GIS: exploring technological competency in active learning across geography	15
Editorial: they think it’s all over…	14
Teaching and learning emotional geographies	12
Teaching topographic map- and image-based geomorphic analysis: an example from alpine glacial geomorphology	9
From simple steps to deep roots: on the road towards inclusive fieldwork in the Netherlands	9
Teaching financial geography in an emerging international financial center: the practices at Beijing Normal University	8
Sharing, showcasing, shouting: a half-century	8
Student employability enhancement through fieldwork: purposefully integrated or a beneficial side effect?	7
The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education	7
Floating in space: teaching atmosphere in human geography	7
Effect of hybrid teaching approaches on students’ learning and engagement with key geographic information science content knowledge	7
Teaching sports geography	7
Scaffolding geospatial epistemic discomfort: a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research	6
Future-facing assessment and feedback in geography: navigating an evolving landscape	6
Building quantitative skills with a simplified physical model of coastal storm deposition	6
Learning geographical information systems through first principles of instruction – effects on student experiences and geocapabilities	6
“Break out” – learning about disability and the inclusive city through emotion and affect	6
“Uncertainty, anxiety, stressors… everything is amplified”: student experiences of the COVID pandemic in higher education	6
Metaverse in in the geography lecture classroom? Evaluating ‘group VR’ possibilities using the multiplayer ‘Wooorld’ VR app	6
Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus	6
A call to action: doing critical GIS in a community-engaged introductory GIS course	6
Courageous and compassionate teaching: international reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic	5
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors	5
Using GIS for flood hazard assessment	5

Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education	5
A critical incident analysis of inclusive fieldwork with students as co-researchers	5
Sustainable urban development research in the time of COVID-19: reflections from doctoral researchers	5
Assessing the influence of traditional in-seat, online, and emergency remote teaching (ERT) modalities on sustainability learning in human geography	5
Non-tenure track faculty in U.S. geography: strategies for support	5
The IPCC reports and HE Geography: opportunities lost and found	5
Correction	5
Educational opportunities of participatory GIS for accessibility on a college campus	5
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies	5
Place-based learning during the ‘field course abroad’ in higher education of geography	5
Geography crosses media: an approach for multi-skilling students in higher education	4
Getting punk and personal: creating and evaluating podcasts and zines as pedagogy for teaching and learning in critical geographical methodologies	4
Podcasting urban geographies: examining the utility of student-generated research podcasts for deep learning and education for sustainable development	4
River science: an educational resource for understanding and learning to survive flooding and environmental change	4
Potentials and limitations of podcasts as an assessment format for teacher students – a comparative case study from human geography	4
Integrating creativity into mapping: a mixed-methods study with pre-service geography teachers	4
Pandemic pedagogies: reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework	4
A systematic review of immersive virtual reality applications in geography higher education	3
Embracing emotions in geography higher education: a systematic review of progress and opportunities	3
The Guide to the Geographic Approach : a modern curriculum for GIScience	3
Obtaining geographical competences through online cartography of familiar and unfamiliar urban heritage: lessons from student workshops	3
The role of social enterprise in student employability: the case of SIDshare, a co-curricular student led social enterprise	3
Adopting and using geospatial technologies for teaching geography in Latin American higher education	3
Digital competence in geoscience fieldwork: a case study of the KMapper application	3
Students’ comparison competencies in geography: results from an explorative assessment study	3
Crafting scholarship through utilising experiential learning during international fieldwork: evolving pedagogies and lessons learnt	3
Geography excursions with a smartphone app or a teacher: what works best?	3
What would you do? Vignettes as a lens on digital Geography teacher competences	3
“Watching. Being. Tracing.” Perspectives from doctoral students on tredje uppgiften and curation as a pedagogical tool	3
Virtual reality 360° panoramic technology to support topographic mapping tasks	3
Spatialising Sport Management	3
Teaching financial geoliteracy	2
Pre-service geography teachers’ perceptions of food systems in the Korean context: a Q-methodological approach	2
Teaching the climate crisis in the neoliberal university: towards a radical pragmatism in climate education	2
Experiencing (dis)comforting pedagogies: learning critical geography beyond the here and now	2
Ethnogeomorphology and landscape-as-place: bridging physical, human, and GIS geographies in higher education	2
Working toward a place-based online pedagogy	2
Assessing ChatGPT for GIS education and assignment creation	2
Making a difference: assessing the long-term impacts for students of active learning pedagogies	2
Deep mapping in geography education: learning about a distant place and people in a summer school as a ‘committed outlier’	2
Assessing first-year geography-major students’ knowledge of climate change and their educational needs – a study in Wuhan, China	2
GIS learning and college students’ acquisition and understanding of spatial concepts	2
Advancements in artificial intelligence and the reframing of student assessment in geography education	2
Possibilities and limitations of learning in Zoom, on campus, and in VR – students’ experiences of hybrid learning spaces	1
The holistic bricolage research approach: advantages and barriers to its application at doctoral level	1
Digesting ourselves and others through a critical pedagogy of food and race	1
The role of emotions and values in territorial planning teaching: insights from a Basque University case study	1
Virtual field trips: an analysis of their characteristics, elements, and approaches	1
Teaching information literacy in an undergraduate class on the geography of the Middle East	1
Structural model of formation of geoecological competence of tourism students	1

Found families: women of colour creating counterspaces in academia	1
How you teach changes who you reach: understanding the effect of teaching modality on engagement, interest, and learning in hydrology	1
The paradox of the ‘sustainable fieldtrip’? Exploring the links between geography fieldtrips and environmental sustainability	1
Correction	1
A studio approach to teaching biosocial convergence science	1
Introduction to perspectives on developing geospatial expertise symposium	1
Engaging geography students through innovation in statistics teaching	1
Footballing journeys: migration, citizenship and national identity	1
The effects of interdisciplinarity and internationality of group compositions in student fieldwork	1
GISedu-GPT: a large language model framework with prior knowledge for GIS education question bank generation	1
GeoTandems : conditions for success and challenges of cross-locational team teaching	1
Integrating ArcGIS Online and digital story mapping for active learning in systematic geography courses	1
Using 3D web scenes to enhance flood risk awareness and climate change education in higher education	1
For a pedagogy of hope: imagining worlds otherwise	1
Self-assessment in student’s learning and developing teaching in geoinformatics – case of Geoportti self-assessment tool	1
Introducing biosensing techniques in urban geography fieldwork activities with students	1
Grant writing training for undergraduate students: contributions to deeper learning and employability	1
Ensuring timely completion and successful thesis outcomes: a case study of an online GIS master’s degree program	1
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum	1