OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dependent origination: Resonances for the environment and sustainability education	34
A statement clamoring for peace in Palestine and Israel	26
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	21
Prompts for eco-social transformation: What environmental education can learn from transformative design	20
Education for the future: applying concepts from the new materialist discourse to UNESCO and OECD publications	19
Pandemics, capitalism, and an ecosocialist pedagogy	18
“It should not only be technical education.” Students’ climate anxiety experiences and expectations toward university education in three European universities	17
Fostering relationships between elementary students and the more-than-human world using movement and stillness	14
Conservation behavior can defy traditional predictors	14
“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education	13
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	12
Education and the marine environmental issue: A historical review of research fields and the popularization on conservation and management of the sea and ocean in Brazil	11
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education	10
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	10
A systematic review of climate change literacy assessment methods	9
Exploring youth eco-literacy through lived experiences. ‘When you purchase a pair of jeans, you bear the burden of child labor in South Asia’	9
Resilience, collaboration, and agency: Galapagos teachers confronting the disruption of COVID-19	9
Tuscarora nation lands and the New York State Power authority: an environmental justice education approach to decolonizing curriculum	9
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	9
Teacher continuous professional development in climate change education: Analyzing teachers’ perspectives	9
Global politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other current issues of environmental justice	8
Using value-belief-norm theory to explore visitor responses to education programs at animal-themed facilities	7
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	7
Down-to-earth ecological literacy through human and nonhuman encounters in fieldwork	7
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	7

“Looking garbage in the eyes”: From recycling to reducing consumerism- transformative environmental education at a waste treatment facility	7
Ecopedagogical literacy of a pandemic: Teaching to critically read the politics of COVID-19 with environmental issues	7
Cassandras Of A Second Kind	6
COVID-19 and the desire of children to return to nature: Emotions in the face of environmental and intergenerational injustices	6
Action-oriented approaches to teaching environmental science in Bhutanese secondary schools: Stakeholder perceptions	5
Envisioning educational pathways for climate change competencies: Insights from a Delphi study	5
In Memoriam: Torvald Jacobsson	5
JEE stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine	5
First as waste, then as feral: The garbological imaginary of Korean stories for decolonizing a wasted world	4
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	4
A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions	4
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	4
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	4
Education to build agency in the Anthropocene	4
Energy literacy: A review in education	4
What organizational factors motivate environmental educators to perform their best?	4
Between the local and the global: The tension of cultivating a bi-directional ecocritical awareness in education	4
An educational board game to promote the engagement of electric engineering students in ethical building of a sustainable and fair future	4
Addressing the climate emergency: A view from the theory of practice architectures	4