International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education is abstracted in the following databases:

Australian Education Index (1992 - ); British Education Index (1997 – ); Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) - Sustainability Science Abstracts; Contents Pages in Education; Current Abstracts (2002 - ); EBSCO host – multiple databases; Education Research Index (2002 - ); Educational Research Abstracts Online; Educational Technology Abstracts; Environmental Abstracts (1975 - ); Environment Index (2002 - ); Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management; Gale Group (Cengage Learning) - Expanded Academic ASAP, InfoTrac OneFile, Ingenta; GEOBASE; Referativnyi Zhurnal; Research into Higher Education Abstracts; SCOPUS (1995-96, 1998 - ), and Swets Information Services  - SwetsWise All Titles (1998 - )