OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education is 23. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
SDG 4 in higher education: challenges and opportunities	89
Transformative learning in the field of sustainability: a systematic literature review (1999-2019)	84
Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review	81
Viewpoint: accelerating the implementation of the SDGs	44
Evaluation of integration of sustainable development in higher education in Sweden	39
A whole-institution approach towards sustainability: a crucial aspect of higher education’s individual and collective engagement with the SDGs and beyond	39
Students’ learning sustainability – implicit, explicit or non-existent: a case study approach on students’ key competencies addressing the SDGs in HEI program	36
Sustainable leadership in higher education institutions: social innovation as a mechanism	35
Integrating sustainability in higher education: a Swedish case	35
Service-learning in physical education teacher education: a pedagogical model towards sustainable development goals	35
Circular economy, sustainability and teacher training in a higher education institution	31
Drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial intentions among university students: an integrated model from a developing world context	31
The promotion of sustainable development in higher education institutions: top-down bottom-up or neither?	29
Sustainability at a Brazilian university: developing environmentally sustainable practices and a life cycle assessment case study	29
Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the students’ pro-environmental behavior: a case-study in a Portuguese HEI	28
A study of development mode in green campus to realize the sustainable development goals	27
Education for sustainable development in Pakistani higher education institutions: an exploratory study of students’ and teachers’ perceptions	26
Curriculum integration of sustainability in engineering education – a national study of programme director perspectives	24
Innovations and challenges in SDG integration and reporting in higher education: a case study from the University of South Florida	24
The role of Education 5.0 in accelerating the implementation of SDGs and challenges encountered at the University of Zimbabwe	23
Smart and learning campus as living lab to foster education for sustainable development: an experience with air quality monitoring	23
Promoting sustainable development in higher education institutions: the use of the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system in support of green marketing	23
Sustainability university rankings: a comparative analysis of UI green metric and the times higher education world university rankings	23