OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Motivation is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A review of Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Computational Thinking (CT) in teaching and learning	42
A structural equation modeling approach in examining EFL students’ foreign language enjoyment, trait emotional intelligence, and classroom climate	28
The impact of extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, and social self-efficacy on English competition participation intentions of pre-college learners: Differences between high school and vocation	28
Food shopping under risk and uncertainty	22
A structural relationship model for resilience, L2 learning motivation, and L2 proficiency at different proficiency levels	21
Intrinsic motivation, favorability, time management, and achievement: A cross-lagged panel analysis	21
Basic psychological needs in the classroom: A literature review in elementary and middle school students	21
Metacognition: History, measurements, and the role in early childhood development and education	19
Navigating the emotional landscape: Insights into resilience, engagement, and burnout among Chinese High School English as a Foreign Language Learners	19
Visual media and learning: Effect of interactive television instruction as an intervention strategy for improving the critical thinking skills and disposition of out-of-school nomadic children in Nige	18
RETRACTED: Music education: Which is more effective – Traditional learning or the introduction of modern technologies to increase student motivation?	18
Motivating academic engagement and lifelong learning among vocational and adult education students via self-direction in learning	17
An analysis of sensory-specific satiation: Food liking, food wanting, and the effects of distraction	17
Predicting learner autonomy in collaborative learning: The role of group metacognition and motivational regulation strategies	17
A motivational response to the inefficiency of teachers’ practices towards students with learned helplessness	14
Exploring Chinese EFL learners’ engagement with large language models: A self-determination theory perspective	14
Avoiding at all costs? An exploration of avoidance costs in a novel Virtual Reality procedure	13
How students’ conceptions of learning science are related to their motivational beliefs and self-regulation	12
Exposure to information increases motivation to learn more	12
A model for enhancing employees’ lifelong learning intention online	12
The mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between resilience and academic performance in adolescence	12
Pulling for pleasure? Erotic approach-bias associated with porn use, not problems	11
Predicting final grades in STEM courses: A path analysis of academic motivation and course-related behavior using self-determination theory	11
The impact of eye-tracking games as a training case on students' learning interest and continuous learning intention in game design courses: Taking Flappy Bird as an example	11
How mental health relates to everyday stress, rumination, trauma and interoception in women living with HIV: A factor analytic study	11

How effective is learner-controlled instruction under classroom conditions? A systematic review	10
Evaluating extinction, renewal, and resurgence of operant behavior in humans with Amazon Mechanical Turk	10
The influence of emotion and learner control on multimedia learning	9
Differential and experimental approaches to studying intelligence in humans and non-human animals	9
Remote, online assessment of avoidance learning	8
Can a brief intervention alter genetic and environmental influences on psychological traits? An experimental behavioral genetics approach	8
The effects of frankincense extract on depression and anxiety-like behaviors induced by lipopolysaccharide in rats	8
Does the end justify the means? Learning tests lead to more negative evaluations and to more stress experiences	8
Moderating role of information system and mobile technology with learning and forgetting factors on organizational learning effectiveness	8
Mindset and effort during a self-adapted arithmetic task: Variable- and person-oriented approaches	8
Learner-facing learning analytic – Feedback and motivation: A critique	7
Probing the effects of perceived teacher goals and achievement-goal orientations on students’ self-efficacy, cognitive and metacognitive strategies in writing: A person-centered approach	7
Make exercise easier: A brief intervention to influence implicit attitudes towards exercise and physical activity behavior	7
Beneficial effects of selenium against the behavioral consequences of lipopolysaccharide administration in rats	7
Negativity bias: An evolutionary hypothesis and an empirical programme	6
Individual and class-level factors for middle school students’ interest in math homework	6
Nursing students' perceived autonomy-support by teachers affects their intrinsic motivation, study effort, and perceived learning outcomes	6
Learning skills, creativity, and self-efficacy in vocational school students	6
Cued fear conditioning in humans using immersive Virtual Reality	6
Mirror mirror on the wall, it’s not the mark I care about at all	5
Motivating students to actively engage in EFL classrooms: Exploring the role of L2 grit and foreign language enjoyment	5
The effect of partial and continuous reinforcement on the generalization of conditioned fear in humans	5
Acquisition and extinction of contextual fear conditioning in Carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	5
Executive functioning and the pursuit of happiness	5
Framing mathematical content in evolutionarily salient contexts improves students’ learning motivation	5
A behavioral-economic analysis of demand and preference for social and food reinforcement in rats	5
A study on the effectiveness of self-assessment learning system of ideological and political education for college students	5
A comparison of the effectiveness of Clark and ACT parenting training on improving the emotional-behavioral problems of the child with divorced single mothers	5
Anxiety level of mastery and performance avoid goal oriented EAP learners: The effect of teacher supportive motivational discourse	5
Traits for depression related to agentic and external control	5
The preconditions and event-related potentials correlates of flow experience in an educational context	5
Autonomous motivation in blended learning: Effects of teaching presence and basic psychological need satisfaction	4
The differentiated mediation effect of academic autonomous and controlled motivation in the relation between self-concept and achievement	4
A self-determination perspective on the relationships between EFL learners’ foreign language peace of mind, foreign language enjoyment, psychological capital, and academic engagement	4
Control of free-choice consummatory behavior by absolute reward value	4
Mechanisms of copying, social learning, and imitation in animals	4
Vanillic acid alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced anxiety/depression-like behaviors and cerebral oxidative stress in male rats	4
An evaluation of resurgence in mice	4
Effect of chronic exposure to sertraline on social and cognitive behavior of adult male and female rats under social isolation stress	4
The effects of controlled self-learning on the improvement of soft and cognitive skills of engineering students: A focused analysis	4
The effect of anxiety on mathematical thinking: An fMRI study on 12th-grade students	4
Predictors of academic grades: The role of interest, effort, and stress	4
Written or drawn episodic future thinking cues improves delay discounting in adults	4
Shifts in intertrial interval duration in autoshaping with rats: Implications for path dependence	3
How to facilitate intrinsic aspirations: An intervention through self-determination theory perspectives	3
Can individuals with down syndrome improve their performance after practicing a game on a mobile phone?—A new insight study	3
Sociability versus empathy in adolescent mice: Different or distinctive?	3
Oral contraceptive androgenicity affects symmetry processing speed in a visuospatial working memory task	3
Investigating the role of perceived emotional support in predicting learners’ well-being and engagement mediated by motivation from a self-determination theory framework	3
Individual variation in the vigor and form of Pavlovian conditioned responses: Analysis of a model system	3

The interplay between perceived teacher support, grit, and academic engagement among Chinese EFL learners	3
Effect of depression and anxiety on human schedule performance	3
The role of dispositional envy, state envy, and social comparisons in predicting learning outcomes	3
How motivation and enjoyment spread their wings during English Foreign Language learning: A pseudo-longitudinal investigation into Moroccan learners	3
Punishment in training contexts decrease operant renewal in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	3
Game theory without theory: Interactive choice in pigeons, humans and machines	3
Artificial intelligence-based needs analysis for english specific purposes in digital environment	3
Psychological determinants and technology acceptance in mobile learning for overseas students studying Chinese in China: A self-determination theory perspective	3
Response-specific effects of punishment of a discriminated operant response	3
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement: Discriminative and motivational functions of food deprivation and satiation states	3
Learning in virtual reality: Effects of instruction type and emotional arousal on learning performance	3
Frequency and animal demographics of mouthing behavior in companion dogs in the United States	3
Trade-offs in stimulus control in a temporal discrimination task	3