OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is 3. 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
Teaching and learning emotional geographies	10
Hope and grief in the human geography classroom	10
The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education	10
Floating in space: teaching atmosphere in human geography	9
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
Building quantitative literacy in critical human geography curriculum	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
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
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers	3
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies	3