OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geography in Higher 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Smartphone GIS: exploring technological competency in active learning across geography	15
Exploring urban and community resilience: key lessons from student research on resilient cities	15
The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning	14
Editorial: they think it’s all over…	13
Teaching topographic map- and image-based geomorphic analysis: an example from alpine glacial geomorphology	12
The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education	12
Hope and grief in the human geography classroom	11
Teaching sports geography	11
Teaching and learning emotional geographies	11
Student employability enhancement through fieldwork: purposefully integrated or a beneficial side effect?	10
Floating in space: teaching atmosphere in human geography	10
Speaking your feelings in the moment: teaching geographic thought with emotion	10
Exploration and practice of the use of mobile devices to assist in general geological field practice	9
An investigation of undergraduate students’ spatial thinking about groundwater	9
What enables student geography teachers to thrive during their PGCE year and beyond?	8
Scaffolding geospatial epistemic discomfort: a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research	8
A critical incident analysis of inclusive fieldwork with students as co-researchers	8
Metaverse in in the geography lecture classroom? Evaluating ‘group VR’ possibilities using the multiplayer ‘Wooorld’ VR app	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
A call to action: doing critical GIS in a community-engaged introductory GIS course	7
Learning geographical information systems through first principles of instruction – effects on student experiences and geocapabilities	7
“Break out” – learning about disability and the inclusive city through emotion and affect	6
Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus	6
Building quantitative skills with a simplified physical model of coastal storm deposition	5

Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education	5
Sustainable urban development research in the time of COVID-19: reflections from doctoral researchers	5
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies	5
A systematic review of immersive virtual reality applications in geography higher education	4
Using GIS for flood hazard assessment	4
Educational opportunities of participatory GIS for accessibility on a college campus	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
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
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors	4
Geography crosses media: an approach for multi-skilling students in higher education	4
Podcasting urban geographies: examining the utility of student-generated research podcasts for deep learning and education for sustainable development	4
Commercial city building games as pedagogical tools: what have we learned?	4
The IPCC reports and HE Geography: opportunities lost and found	4
River science: an educational resource for understanding and learning to survive flooding and environmental change	4