Environmental Education Research

Aims & Scope

The mission of Environmental Education Research is to advance research-based and scholarly understandings of environmental and sustainability education.

The journal achieves this by publishing peer reviewed research and scholarship on all aspects of environmental education, sourced from around the world and diverse schools of thought and practice in inquiry.

The editorial board welcomes submission of original, high quality and innovative papers derived from empirical, philosophical, practice-or policy-related investigations of environmental and sustainability education.

The journal’s primary audiences are those working in or with the broad fields of education and educational research, and environmental studies, and relevant interdisciplinary or subdisciplinary aspects.

Manuscripts should be scholarly, analytical and critical.

Ideas discussed and advanced should be transferable to other educational systems and cultures (where possible), and papers should be accessible to an international readership.

View Aims & Scope

---

Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.106

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	98

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4095

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1489

---

---

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

---

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

---

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?

  Citation: 5616

  Authors: Anja, Julian

• Identifying effective climate change education strategies: a systematic review of the research

  Citation: 805

  Authors: Martha C., Richard R., Annie, Alison, Willandia A.

• Education for strategic environmental behavior

  Citation: 635

  Authors: Louise, Debra Flanders

• Hope and climate change: the importance of hope for environmental engagement among young people

  Citation: 588

  Authors: Maria

• Learners and Learning in Environmental Education: A critical review of the evidence

  Citation: 494

  Authors: Mark

• The Action Competence Approach in Environmental Education

  Citation: 492

  Authors: Bjarne Bruun, Karsten

• Understanding behavior to understand behavior change: a literature review

  Citation: 459

  Authors: Joe E., Nicole M.

• Land education: Indigenous, post-colonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research

  Citation: 449

  Authors: Eve, Marcia, Kate

• Knowledge, Action and Pro-environmental Behaviour

  Citation: 388

  Authors: Bjarne Bruun

• Environmental Education for Sustainability: defining the new focus of environmental education in the 1990s

  Citation: 376

  Authors: Daniella

---