OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Education Research is 25. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension	108
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	81
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	61
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	60
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? – A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘	60
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.	57
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	53
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	52
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	50
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	47
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	46
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions	41
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	37
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	37
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	35
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?	35
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	31
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	29
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	29
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’^[1]	27
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	27
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-736	26
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	26
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	26
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	25