OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Motivation 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Enhancing Chinese students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in EMI classrooms: Do learning motivation and academic self-efficacy matter?	74
A preliminary investigation of eye-tracking software to inform an ABA renewal mitigation procedure	58
Evaluation of stress and anxiety levels on science and engineering undergraduate students in spain when facing written assessments guides for positive interventions	54
Shaping inter-response time and run length using a discrete-trial percentile schedule combined with a fixed consecutive number procedure	33
Uncovering the state of academic motivation, achievement emotion, self- confidence, and achievement goals in online/offline language instruction	32
The relationship between cognitive ability and motivation during cognitive tasks of varying complexity	30
Examining the role of classroom climate and teacher-student relationships in EFL students’ perceived learning outcomes: A self-determination theory perspective	24
Beneficial effects of selenium against the behavioral consequences of lipopolysaccharide administration in rats	23
How do personality traits of college students affect their learning flow experience?	22
Evaluating voluntary abstinence from ethanol self-administration in rats using a concurrent-chains procedure	21
Increasing trial discriminability in the ephemeral reward task does not improve optimal choice in pigeons (Columba livia)	21
Oral contraceptive androgenicity affects symmetry processing speed in a visuospatial working memory task	18
Research on multimodal based learning evaluation method in smart classroom	15
An analysis of the effects of topographically similar and dissimilar auditory stimuli on the accuracy and latency to respond in a math task	15
Exploring age-related differences in virtual maze navigation: The impact of external cues on search-strategy	14
The impact of EFL teachers’ emotioncy level on their motivation and academic engagement	14
Cultural psychology of english translation through computer vision-based robotic interpretation	13
RETRACTED: Music education: Which is more effective – Traditional learning or the introduction of modern technologies to increase student motivation?	13
Effect of chronic exposure to sertraline on social and cognitive behavior of adult male and female rats under social isolation stress	13
Anxiety level of mastery and performance avoid goal oriented EAP learners: The effect of teacher supportive motivational discourse	11
Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning	11
Reaction time and cognitive strategies: The role of education in task performance	11
Does digital task-based instruction make a difference in EFL university students’ motivation in Saudi Arabia? An Active theory perspective	10
Efficacy of an expectancy-based training in mitigating the effect of explicit gender stereotype activation on motor learning in children	10
Mood affects attention in knowledge-free reasoning task, not scores	10

Learning the principles of stimulus control analysing human behaviour	10
Investigating the role of teacher concern in EFL students’ motivation, anxiety, and language achievement through the lens of self-determination theory	10
Evaluating extinction, renewal, and resurgence of operant behavior in humans with Amazon Mechanical Turk	10
Behavioral analysis of teachers and students in higher education supervision mechanisms	9
The effect of ACE cycle based instruction on geometry self-efficacy beliefs in polygons learning area	9
The impact of pretraining on autoshaping and operant acquisition in rats is significant but transient	8
Effect of Raha syrup on the motivational effects of morphine and CSF serotonin levels in rats	8
Mitigating boredom in L2 Spanish reading class with the reading-writing continuation task	8
The mechanism of self-regulated learning among rural primary middle school students: Academic delay of gratification and resilience	7
ABA, ABC, and AAB renewal effects and individual differences of learning on fear conditioning using social stimuli	7
Metacognitive training for algebra teaching to high school students: An action research study	7
AI-powered personalized learning: Enhancing self-efficacy, motivation, and digital literacy in adult education through expectancy-value theory	7
Examining interactions between baseline expectancy beliefs and task values on weekly motivation in an introductory statistics course	6
Controlling separation-induced problem behavior in horses through target training	6
The effectiveness of using interactive visual multimedia technology intervention in improving the literacy skills of children in rural China	6
Game theory without theory: Interactive choice in pigeons, humans and machines	6
Training model of practical innovative talents in polytechnic colleges based on fuzzy set and its extended modeling	6
Metacognition: History, measurements, and the role in early childhood development and education	6
Vanillic acid alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced anxiety/depression-like behaviors and cerebral oxidative stress in male rats	6
Harnessing generative AI: Exploring its impact on cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, learning retention, reward sensitivity, and motivation through reinforcement theory	6
Editorial Board	6
Gamification in Vietnamese education: Assessing psychological need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and learning effectiveness	6
Generalization of conditioned fear in humans: Transitioning from episodic to semantic memory	6
The impact of academic self-efficacy and academic motivation on Chinese EFL students’ academic burnout	6
Analysis of variability of pigeons’ pecking location under variable-interval schedules	5
Editorial Board	5
Socioeconomic status stereotype affects motor learning	5
Predicting final grades in STEM courses: A path analysis of academic motivation and course-related behavior using self-determination theory	5
Frequency and animal demographics of mouthing behavior in companion dogs in the United States	5
Nonhuman animal social behavior: Introduction to the special issue	5
Retrospective revaluation effects during interpersonal attributions	5
Preservice teachers’ accuracy in measuring child engagement using a digitised momentary time sampling measure	5
Hatchery enrichment accelerates use of land mark cue in route learning behaviour of climbing perch (Anabas testudineus Bloch 1792)	5
Understanding cognitive maps from landmark and configurational representations	5
Disentangling three different conflicts at non-response/semantic and response levels in a new stroop-matching task	5
A healthy lifestyle persuasive design model based on behavioral analysis	5
Overselectivity during reading-related tasks for children at risk for reading failure	5
Predicting learner autonomy in collaborative learning: The role of group metacognition and motivational regulation strategies	5
Effectiveness of a scaffolded autonomous learning scheme in enhancing learners’ motivation in EFL classes	4
Mechanisms of copying, social learning, and imitation in animals	4
Learner-facing learning analytic – Feedback and motivation: A critique	4
Goal interruptions and task performance: The additional influence of goal orientations	4
Behavioural evaluation of mouse models of type 2 diabetes	4
A mixed-methods investigation into complex components of multilingual international students' self-regulated learning in English as a foreign language context: A social cognitive perspective	4
Acute stress increases behaviors that optimize safety and decreases the exploration of aversive areas	4
A model for enhancing employees’ lifelong learning intention online	4
A single reminder trial updates fear memory and affects extinction in rats housed under different living conditions	4
Autonomous motivation in blended learning: Effects of teaching presence and basic psychological need satisfaction	4
BERT-based transfer learning in tacit knowledge externalization: A study case of history teachers	4
Delving into the structural model of students’ music performance anxiety, self-efficacy, and motivation based on a self-determination theory	4