OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring urban and community resilience: key lessons from student research on resilient cities	19
Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom Model: a study of university geography instructors in Saudi Arabia	17
Smartphone GIS: exploring technological competency in active learning across geography	15
Editorial: they think it’s all over…	14
Teaching and learning emotional geographies	12
Teaching topographic map- and image-based geomorphic analysis: an example from alpine glacial geomorphology	11
From simple steps to deep roots: on the road towards inclusive fieldwork in the Netherlands	11
Sharing, showcasing, shouting: a half-century	10
Metaverse in in the geography lecture classroom? Evaluating ‘group VR’ possibilities using the multiplayer ‘Wooorld’ VR app	9
Floating in space: teaching atmosphere in human geography	9
Teaching financial geography in an emerging international financial center: the practices at Beijing Normal University	9
Student employability enhancement through fieldwork: purposefully integrated or a beneficial side effect?	9
Learning geographical information systems through first principles of instruction – effects on student experiences and geocapabilities	8
Teaching sports geography	8
Correction	8
Effect of hybrid teaching approaches on students’ learning and engagement with key geographic information science content knowledge	8
“Uncertainty, anxiety, stressors… everything is amplified”: student experiences of the COVID pandemic in higher education	7
Courageous and compassionate teaching: international reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic	7
Future-facing assessment and feedback in geography: navigating an evolving landscape	7
Scaffolding geospatial epistemic discomfort: a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research	7
A call to action: doing critical GIS in a community-engaged introductory GIS course	7
Building quantitative skills with a simplified physical model of coastal storm deposition	7
Correction	7
Assessing the influence of traditional in-seat, online, and emergency remote teaching (ERT) modalities on sustainability learning in human geography	6
“Break out” – learning about disability and the inclusive city through emotion and affect	6

Sustainable urban development research in the time of COVID-19: reflections from doctoral researchers	6
Educational opportunities of participatory GIS for accessibility on a college campus	6
A critical incident analysis of inclusive fieldwork with students as co-researchers	6
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors	6
Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus	6
The IPCC reports and HE Geography: opportunities lost and found	5
Using GIS for flood hazard assessment	5
Podcasting urban geographies: examining the utility of student-generated research podcasts for deep learning and education for sustainable development	5
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies	5
Non-tenure track faculty in U.S. geography: strategies for support	5
Potentials and limitations of podcasts as an assessment format for teacher students – a comparative case study from human geography	5
The critical arts-science-advocacy framework: a model for K-12 teacher education and geography education in the Anthropocene	4
Place-based learning during the ‘field course abroad’ in higher education of geography	4
What would you do? Vignettes as a lens on digital Geography teacher competences	4
Pandemic pedagogies: reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework	4
Instructors as developers? Designing, evaluating, and maintaining Web mapping pedagogies using minimal computing	4
Adopting and using geospatial technologies for teaching geography in Latin American higher education	4
Integrating creativity into mapping: a mixed-methods study with pre-service geography teachers	4
Using individual GIS projects to build students’ self-efficacy: an empirical and theoretical study	4
Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education	4
River science: an educational resource for understanding and learning to survive flooding and environmental change	4
Geography crosses media: an approach for multi-skilling students in higher education	4
“Watching. Being. Tracing.” Perspectives from doctoral students on tredje uppgiften and curation as a pedagogical tool	3
The spatio-temporal evolution of geography higher education institutions in China, 1904–2024: macroscopic drivers and challenges	3
Obtaining geographical competences through online cartography of familiar and unfamiliar urban heritage: lessons from student workshops	3
War in North Terbonnew: generative AI and role-play in geography education	3
Hiking guidebooks as tools for teaching and geographical analysis	3
A systematic review of immersive virtual reality applications in geography higher education	3
Digital competence in geoscience fieldwork: a case study of the KMapper application	3
Exploring the use of generative AI podcasts to support students learning	3
Geography excursions with a smartphone app or a teacher: what works best?	3
LLM-Assisted assessment in GIS education: an empirical evaluation of opportunities and risks	3
Getting punk and personal: creating and evaluating podcasts and zines as pedagogy for teaching and learning in critical geographical methodologies	3
How do we enable our students and colleagues to do their very best thinking, for themselves?	3
The Guide to the Geographic Approach : a modern curriculum for GIScience	3
Students’ comparison competencies in geography: results from an explorative assessment study	3
Virtual reality 360° panoramic technology to support topographic mapping tasks	3
Crafting scholarship through utilising experiential learning during international fieldwork: evolving pedagogies and lessons learnt	3
From PhD by publication to book: an autoethnographic reflection of an early-career geographer	3
Embracing emotions in geography higher education: a systematic review of progress and opportunities	3
Spatialising Sport Management	2
Constructing agency: role-play as a pedagogical tool in geography higher education	2
Making a difference: assessing the long-term impacts for students of active learning pedagogies	2
Transdisciplinary reflections from an inaugural Geography field school: a staff-student collaborative study	2
Teaching the climate crisis in the neoliberal university: towards a radical pragmatism in climate education	2
Pre-service geography teachers’ perceptions of food systems in the Korean context: a Q-methodological approach	2
Ethnogeomorphology and landscape-as-place: bridging physical, human, and GIS geographies in higher education	2
Deep mapping in geography education: learning about a distant place and people in a summer school as a ‘committed outlier’	2
The role of social enterprise in student employability: the case of SIDshare, a co-curricular student led social enterprise	2
Working toward a place-based online pedagogy	2

Teaching financial geoliteracy	2
Research on the cultivation of teaching skills of Geography Normal University students under the background of new liberal arts construction	2
Assessing first-year geography-major students’ knowledge of climate change and their educational needs – a study in Wuhan, China	2
The role of emotions and values in territorial planning teaching: insights from a Basque University case study	1
Self-assessment in student’s learning and developing teaching in geoinformatics – case of Geoportti self-assessment tool	1
Introduction to perspectives on developing geospatial expertise symposium	1
Correction	1
The holistic bricolage research approach: advantages and barriers to its application at doctoral level	1
GIS learning and college students’ acquisition and understanding of spatial concepts	1
Enhancing environmental awareness through 3 R-Based Earthcomm learning: a quasi-experimental study in Indonesian higher education	1
Teaching financial geography	1
The paradox of the ‘sustainable fieldtrip’? Exploring the links between geography fieldtrips and environmental sustainability	1
Gender gaps in geographical engineering and earth sciences in Chile	1
Introducing biosensing techniques in urban geography fieldwork activities with students	1
Teaching hopeful political geographies through field trips	1
A studio approach to teaching biosocial convergence science	1
Using 3D web scenes to enhance flood risk awareness and climate change education in higher education	1
Assessing ChatGPT for GIS education and assignment creation	1
Experiencing (dis)comforting pedagogies: learning critical geography beyond the here and now	1
Footballing journeys: migration, citizenship and national identity	1
Possibilities and limitations of learning in Zoom, on campus, and in VR – students’ experiences of hybrid learning spaces	1
How you teach changes who you reach: understanding the effect of teaching modality on engagement, interest, and learning in hydrology	1
Grant writing training for undergraduate students: contributions to deeper learning and employability	1
Virtual field trips: an analysis of their characteristics, elements, and approaches	1
For a pedagogy of hope: imagining worlds otherwise	1
Digesting ourselves and others through a critical pedagogy of food and race	1
Advancements in artificial intelligence and the reframing of student assessment in geography education	1
Teaching information literacy in an undergraduate class on the geography of the Middle East	1
Engaging geography students through innovation in statistics teaching	1
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum	1