OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Education Research is 20. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	50
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education	50
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.	40
Framing effect of environmental cost information on environmental awareness among high school students	39
Protect + prevent = preserve? Exploring students’ arguments for and attitudes toward conservation	37
The prospect of education for sustainable development ameliorating specific abiotic factors in the environment: A Finnish case study	33
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students	32
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	32
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment	32
Growing garden-based learning: mapping practical and theoretical work through design	30
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior	27
Navigating controversy and neutrality: pre-service teachers’ beliefs on teaching climate change	27
Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape	27
Conceptualizing community-level environmental literacy using the Delphi method	26
Using social network analysis to explore and expand our understanding of a robust environmental learning landscape	26
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	25
Developing youth toward pluralistic environmental citizenship: a Taiwanese place-based curriculum case study	25
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	21
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? Part II. Examining pedagogy in school field trip programs for early adolescent youth across political	20
The relationship between student participation and students’ self-perceived action competence for sustainability in a whole school approach	20