OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Motivation is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of stress and anxiety levels on science and engineering undergraduate students in spain when facing written assessments guides for positive interventions	96
Shaping inter-response time and run length using a discrete-trial percentile schedule combined with a fixed consecutive number procedure	89
Promoting learner flourishing and well-being beyond the classroom: The role of advising in language learning from a self-determination theory perspective	67
Examining the role of classroom climate and teacher-student relationships in EFL students’ perceived learning outcomes: A self-determination theory perspective	53
The relationship between cognitive ability and motivation during cognitive tasks of varying complexity	52
How do personality traits of college students affect their learning flow experience?	48
A preliminary investigation of eye-tracking software to inform an ABA renewal mitigation procedure	42
Effects of europinidin-o-methylated anthocyanidin on scopolamine-induced memory impairments by improving neurological expression: An integrated with insilico and ADMET properties by computational anal	38
Enhancing Chinese students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in EMI classrooms: Do learning motivation and academic self-efficacy matter?	38
Types of errors in Raven tests in a population with Down syndrome: An online assessment	34
Uncovering the state of academic motivation, achievement emotion, self- confidence, and achievement goals in online/offline language instruction	33
Increasing trial discriminability in the ephemeral reward task does not improve optimal choice in pigeons (Columba livia)	27
Evaluating voluntary abstinence from ethanol self-administration in rats using a concurrent-chains procedure	26
Investigating Chinese English learners’ readiness for Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies: A theory of planned behavior (TPB) perspective	24
Chinese engineering students’ perceived emotional experiences in AI-mediated education: An expectancy-value theory (EVT) perspective	24
Exploring age-related differences in virtual maze navigation: The impact of external cues on search-strategy	24
Cultural psychology of english translation through computer vision-based robotic interpretation	21
An analysis of the effects of topographically similar and dissimilar auditory stimuli on the accuracy and latency to respond in a math task	20
RETRACTED: Music education: Which is more effective – Traditional learning or the introduction of modern technologies to increase student motivation?	19
Oral contraceptive androgenicity affects symmetry processing speed in a visuospatial working memory task	18
The impact of EFL teachers’ emotioncy level on their motivation and academic engagement	17
Exploring learning uncertainty and test anxiety with mindfulness as a mediator in EFL students: An Expectancy-Value Approach	17
Unlocking the interplay among Chinese EFL Learners’ L2 motivation, regulatory focus, and language learning achievement: From a regulatory focus theory perspective	17
Research on multimodal based learning evaluation method in smart classroom	17
Effect of chronic exposure to sertraline on social and cognitive behavior of adult male and female rats under social isolation stress	16

Understanding user stickiness in GAI-IDLE platforms: Insights from self-determination theory	14
Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning	13
Mood affects attention in knowledge-free reasoning task, not scores	13
Anxiety level of mastery and performance avoid goal oriented EAP learners: The effect of teacher supportive motivational discourse	12
Investigating the role of teacher concern in EFL students’ motivation, anxiety, and language achievement through the lens of self-determination theory	12
ABA, ABC, and AAB renewal effects and individual differences of learning on fear conditioning using social stimuli	12
Reaction time and cognitive strategies: The role of education in task performance	12
Effect of Raha syrup on the motivational effects of morphine and CSF serotonin levels in rats	12
Does digital task-based instruction make a difference in EFL university students’ motivation in Saudi Arabia? An Active theory perspective	12
Editorial Board	12
Efficacy of an expectancy-based training in mitigating the effect of explicit gender stereotype activation on motor learning in children	12
Behavioral analysis of teachers and students in higher education supervision mechanisms	11
The mechanism of self-regulated learning among rural primary middle school students: Academic delay of gratification and resilience	11
Mitigating boredom in L2 Spanish reading class with the reading-writing continuation task	11
The effect of ACE cycle based instruction on geometry self-efficacy beliefs in polygons learning area	11
The impact of pretraining on autoshaping and operant acquisition in rats is significant but transient	11
Learning the principles of stimulus control analysing human behaviour	11
Frustrative nonreward after extensive training in the consummatory successive negative contrast task	10
AI-powered personalized learning: Enhancing self-efficacy, motivation, and digital literacy in adult education through expectancy-value theory	10
Harnessing generative AI: Exploring its impact on cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, learning retention, reward sensitivity, and motivation through reinforcement theory	10
Metacognition: History, measurements, and the role in early childhood development and education	10
Controlling separation-induced problem behavior in horses through target training	10
Vanillic acid alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced anxiety/depression-like behaviors and cerebral oxidative stress in male rats	10
Metacognitive training for algebra teaching to high school students: An action research study	10
The effectiveness of using interactive visual multimedia technology intervention in improving the literacy skills of children in rural China	10
Linking basic psychological needs, grit, and peace of mind to engagement in AI-assisted language learning: A self-determination theory perspective	10
Examining interactions between baseline expectancy beliefs and task values on weekly motivation in an introductory statistics course	9
Gamification in Vietnamese education: Assessing psychological need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and learning effectiveness	9
The power of grit and enjoyment on engagement of students majoring in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages (TCSOL) in robot-assisted language learning environment: A self-determination theo	9
The impact of academic self-efficacy and academic motivation on Chinese EFL students’ academic burnout	9
Training model of practical innovative talents in polytechnic colleges based on fuzzy set and its extended modeling	9
Generalization of conditioned fear in humans: Transitioning from episodic to semantic memory	9
Digital educational game design: Music, speed, colour and collectible item	8
Analysis of variability of pigeons’ pecking location under variable-interval schedules	8
Understanding cognitive maps from landmark and configurational representations	8
Game theory without theory: Interactive choice in pigeons, humans and machines	8
Socioeconomic status stereotype affects motor learning	8
A healthy lifestyle persuasive design model based on behavioral analysis	7
Aligning learning theories with Widening Access Mature Students’ perceptions: Insights from a mixed methods study in London, UK	7
Role of spatial memory in spatial design: A systematic review	7
Disentangling three different conflicts at non-response/semantic and response levels in a new stroop-matching task	7
Editorial Board	7
An exploratory analysis of reinforcer competition and novelty in domestic dogs	7
Editorial Board	7
A single reminder trial updates fear memory and affects extinction in rats housed under different living conditions	7
Predicting learner autonomy in collaborative learning: The role of group metacognition and motivational regulation strategies	7
Effectiveness of a scaffolded autonomous learning scheme in enhancing learners’ motivation in EFL classes	7
Retrospective revaluation effects during interpersonal attributions	7
EFL students’ writing engagement and AI attitude in GenAI-assisted contexts: A mixed-methods study grounded in SDT and TAM	7
Enhancing EFL writing with visualised GenAI feedback: A cognitive affective theory of learning perspective on revision quality, emotional response, and human-computer interaction	7

Overselectivity during reading-related tasks for children at risk for reading failure	7
Preservice teachers’ accuracy in measuring child engagement using a digitised momentary time sampling measure	7
Nonhuman animal social behavior: Introduction to the special issue	7
Delving into the structural model of students’ music performance anxiety, self-efficacy, and motivation based on a self-determination theory	6
BERT-based transfer learning in tacit knowledge externalization: A study case of history teachers	6
The interplay between English teachers’ rapport and immediacy and the students’ academic motivation	6
Goal interruptions and task performance: The additional influence of goal orientations	6
Autonomous motivation in blended learning: Effects of teaching presence and basic psychological need satisfaction	6
The role of AI tools on EFL students’ motivation, self-efficacy, and anxiety: Through the lens of control-value theory	6
Simulated uncertainty in gamified language learning: Investigating resilience, academic buoyancy, and on-task focus through the lens of expectancy-value theory and operant conditioning	6
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	6
Mechanisms of copying, social learning, and imitation in animals	6
Exploring the role of EFL students’ AI literacy and readiness in their academic goal orientations: An achievement goal theory (AGT) perspective	6
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement: Discriminative and motivational functions of food deprivation and satiation states	6
Sociability versus empathy in adolescent mice: Different or distinctive?	6
Acute stress increases behaviors that optimize safety and decreases the exploration of aversive areas	6