OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Online local natural hazards education for young adults: assessing program efficacy and changes in risk perception for Texas natural hazards	40
Exploring urban and community resilience: key lessons from student research on resilient cities	17
Smartphone GIS: exploring technological competency in active learning across geography	17
The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning	13
Teaching topographic map- and image-based geomorphic analysis: an example from alpine glacial geomorphology	12
Editorial: they think it’s all over…	12
Hope and grief in the human geography classroom	11
The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education	11
Teaching and learning emotional geographies	11
An investigation of undergraduate students’ spatial thinking about groundwater	9
Exploration and practice of the use of mobile devices to assist in general geological field practice	9
Teaching sports geography	9
Metaverse in in the geography lecture classroom? Evaluating ‘group VR’ possibilities using the multiplayer ‘Wooorld’ VR app	9
Building quantitative literacy in critical human geography curriculum	8
Scaffolding geospatial epistemic discomfort: a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research	8
Speaking your feelings in the moment: teaching geographic thought with emotion	8
Floating in space: teaching atmosphere in human geography	8
Student employability enhancement through fieldwork: purposefully integrated or a beneficial side effect?	8
What enables student geography teachers to thrive during their PGCE year and beyond?	7
Building quantitative skills with a simplified physical model of coastal storm deposition	7
Courageous and compassionate teaching: international reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic	7
A critical incident analysis of inclusive fieldwork with students as co-researchers	7
Learning geographical information systems through first principles of instruction – effects on student experiences and geocapabilities	6
Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus	6
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies	6

Sustainable urban development research in the time of COVID-19: reflections from doctoral researchers	5
Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education	5
Commercial city building games as pedagogical tools: what have we learned?	5
Why students participate in international fieldwork programs: an exploratory study	5
Using GIS for flood hazard assessment	4
Podcasting urban geographies: examining the utility of student-generated research podcasts for deep learning and education for sustainable development	4
Playing with Star Trek in the critical geography classroom: STEM education and otherwise possibilities	4
Geography crosses media: an approach for multi-skilling students in higher education	4
Pandemic pedagogies: reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework	4
Assessing the influence of traditional in-seat, online, and emergency remote teaching (ERT) modalities on sustainability learning in human geography	4
A systematic review of immersive virtual reality applications in geography higher education	4
Lockdown lessons: an international conversation on resilient GI science teaching	4
River science: an educational resource for understanding and learning to survive flooding and environmental change	4
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors	4
Getting punk and personal: creating and evaluating podcasts and zines as pedagogy for teaching and learning in critical geographical methodologies	4
Adopting and using geospatial technologies for teaching geography in Latin American higher education	4
The mobility of experiential learning pedagogy: transferring ideas and practices from a large- to a small-campus setting	4
The IPCC reports and HE Geography: opportunities lost and found	4
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers	3
Students’ comparison competencies in geography: results from an explorative assessment study	3
Integrating contemplative pedagogy and anti-oppressive pedagogy in geography higher education classrooms	3
Obtaining geographical competences through online cartography of familiar and unfamiliar urban heritage: lessons from student workshops	3
An introduction to the co-creation of policy briefs with youth and academic teams	3
How wide is the gap? Comparing geography graduates’ labor market success with that of peers from business and computer science	3
Teaching a geography field methods course amid the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections and lessons learned	3
Geography excursions with a smartphone app or a teacher: what works best?	3
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies	3
Spatialising Sport Management	3
Understanding city dynamics: using geolocated social media in a problem-based activity as an investigative tool to enhance student learning	3
Deep mapping in geography education: learning about a distant place and people in a summer school as a ‘committed outlier’	2
Anthropogenic emissions or just a lot of hot air? Using air pollution to teach quantitative methods to “mathophobic” first-year geography students	2
Integrating ArcGIS Online and digital story mapping for active learning in systematic geography courses	2
Going solo: students’ strategies for coping with an independent GIS project	2
A studio approach to teaching biosocial convergence science	2
Engaging geography students through innovation in statistics teaching	2
Education for sustainable development with transdisciplinary-oriented courses - experiences and recommendations for future collaborations in higher education teaching	2
Assessing ChatGPT for GIS education and assignment creation	2
Teaching The Tragedy of the Commons through an Iterative, Performance-based, Embodied Cognition Pedagogy	2
The role of social enterprise in student employability: the case of SIDshare, a co-curricular student led social enterprise	2
Beyond knowledge exchange: doctoral training, collaborative research and reflective pedagogies in human geography	2
Ensuring timely completion and successful thesis outcomes: a case study of an online GIS master’s degree program	2
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum	2
The paradox of the ‘sustainable fieldtrip’? Exploring the links between geography fieldtrips and environmental sustainability	2
Self-assessment in student’s learning and developing teaching in geoinformatics – case of Geoportti self-assessment tool	2
How you teach changes who you reach: understanding the effect of teaching modality on engagement, interest, and learning in hydrology	2
For a pedagogy of hope: imagining worlds otherwise	2
GIS learning and college students’ acquisition and understanding of spatial concepts	2
Experiencing (dis)comforting pedagogies: learning critical geography beyond the here and now	2
Teaching geographies of the far-right in Germany – conceptualising hate and fear as didactic challenges	2
Teaching information literacy in an undergraduate class on the geography of the Middle East	2

Building bridges: the impact of scaffolds in PBL on the learning of South African pre-service geography teachers	2
Teaching “wicked” problems in geography	2
Field-based local stream research in undergraduate classes: an inquiry-based approach	2
Footballing journeys: migration, citizenship and national identity	2
Introduction to perspectives on developing geospatial expertise symposium	2
Digesting ourselves and others through a critical pedagogy of food and race	2
Assessing first-year geography-major students’ knowledge of climate change and their educational needs – a study in Wuhan, China	2
Working toward a place-based online pedagogy	2
Ethnogeomorphology and landscape-as-place: bridging physical, human, and GIS geographies in higher education	2