OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Education Research is 21. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	75
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education	59
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.	55
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	52
Do future teachers’ sustainability commitments really relate to action-oriented educational approaches?	52
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	45
Addressing ecoparalysis: a community-engaged unit enhances undergraduate student environmental value and problem-solving self-efficacy	40
Integration of the sustainable development Goals (SDGs) in architecture curriculum – quantifying the extent of SDG contributions	40
Challenges in modelling and measuring sustainability competencies crucial to successful sustainability transitions	40
Seeding sustainable futures: enhancing children’s knowledge of content and skills through early STEM education	39
‘Facting or Acting’ in sustainable development teaching? Science Studies teachers’ didactical choices in Swedish upper-secondary schools	39
Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape	39
Protect + prevent = preserve? Exploring students’ arguments for and attitudes toward conservation	39
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	32
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning	30
The prospect of education for sustainable development ameliorating specific abiotic factors in the environment: A Finnish case study	29
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students	28
Perceptions of a sustainable diet among young adults	25
Environmental education in teaching science on the Wadden Sea ecosystem: What are the effects on environmental psychological constructs?	25
Navigating controversy and neutrality: pre-service teachers’ beliefs on teaching climate change	23
Virtual reality facilitates pro-environmental behavioural intentions	23