OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is 4. 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
A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems	23
Teaching (super) wicked problems: authentic learning about climate change	23
Learning to teach climate change: students in teacher training and their progression in pedagogical content knowledge	20
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers	14
Integrating contemplative pedagogy and anti-oppressive pedagogy in geography higher education classrooms	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
Towards the Nature of Geography for geography education: an exploratory account, learning from work on the Nature of Science	10
Design precepts for online experiential learning programs to address wicked sustainability problems	10
Unsettling feelings in the classroom: scaffolding pedagogies of discomfort as part of decolonising human geography in higher education	9
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
Education for sustainable development with transdisciplinary-oriented courses - experiences and recommendations for future collaborations in higher education teaching	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘Nature-enhanced learning’ and geography education	4
Big ideas in the geography curriculum: nature, awareness and need	4
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