OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Education is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The effectiveness and implementation of a humane education program in China: Promoting socio-emotional and ecological competencies among elementary school students	67
Learning with lands and waters: Visiting as an indigenous feminist practice in climate education	39
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	36
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	33
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	23
Thinking with racialized educators’ embodied experiences of climate coloniality: Implications for education	22
Greening higher education in Europe: institutional transitions to sustainable development	20
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	19
Disrupted sustainability? - Students’ environmental practices from home to campus	18
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	18
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	17
Religion, narrative, and the environmental humanities: bridging the rhetoric gap	16
Influence of charismatic animals on youths’ environmental knowledge and connection to water through the application of virtual reality tours	15
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	14
Linking students’ interest in nature to their self-reported pro-environmental behavior and nature activities – A cross-sectional study in grade 5 to 9	14
“Time is different working with the land”: Temporal pedagogies in European ecovillages	13
Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world	13
Youth understandings of economic growth and ecological sustainability	13
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	11
What can the Romans do for us? The role of classics in delivering learning for sustainability	10
(Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist	10
Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice	10
Integration of interculturality in education for sustainable development	10
Housing in the Capitalocene : Environmental education and sustainable living	9
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	9

At the intersection of environmental learning and special education: Hidden opportunities	9
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	9
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	9
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center	9
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	8
WalkingScapes as ecopedagogy	8
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	8
Stockholm +50, Tbilisi +45, Rio +30: Research, praxis, and policy	8
The role of environmental ideologies in environmental education	8
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene	8
Dependent origination: Resonances for the environment and sustainability education	7
Growing agency in food systems education: Navigating tensions in experiential learning in agriculture	7
A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions	7
The role of emotional messaging in climate education: Hope vs. fear appeals and student efficacy	7
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	7
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	6
Long-term influences of participation in an earth education program in middle school	6
Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students	6
Systemic impacts of sustainability education: A case study of New York Sun Works	6
Perspectives and practices of education for sustainable development: a critical guide for higher education	6