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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	52
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	28
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	27
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	21
Learning with lands and waters: Visiting as an indigenous feminist practice in climate education	17
Influence of charismatic animals on youths’ environmental knowledge and connection to water through the application of virtual reality tours	16
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	16
Religion, narrative, and the environmental humanities: bridging the rhetoric gap	16
Linking students’ interest in nature to their self-reported pro-environmental behavior and nature activities – A cross-sectional study in grade 5 to 9	15
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	15
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	14
(Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist	13
Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world	12
Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice	12
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	11
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center	11
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	11
What can the Romans do for us? The role of classics in delivering learning for sustainability	11
Integration of interculturality in education for sustainable development	11
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	10
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	10
Housing in the Capitalocene : Environmental education and sustainable living	10
Stockholm +50, Tbilisi +45, Rio +30: Research, praxis, and policy	9
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene	9
Idwi,Xenopus laevis, and African clawed frog: Teaching counternarratives of invasive species in postcolonial ecology	9

WalkingScapes as ecopedagogy	9
Dependent origination: Resonances for the environment and sustainability education	8
The role of environmental ideologies in environmental education	8
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	8
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	7
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	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
Long-term influences of participation in an earth education program in middle school	7
Systemic impacts of sustainability education: A case study of New York Sun Works	6
Tbilisi’s “Sounds Of Silence”—(In)action in the policy ≠ embodiments of environmental education	6
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	6
Examining the influence of citizen science participation on individual volunteers in the global South: A case study of hydrologic monitors in Veracruz, Mexico	6