OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of npj Science of Learning is 2. 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
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	78
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	60
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	45
The practical utility of genetic screening in school settings	38
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	33
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	32
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	28
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively	27
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	27
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	27
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	25
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	25
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	24
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	24
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	21
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	19
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	17
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details	16
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	15
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	14
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	14
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	14
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	13
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	13
Statistical learning occurs during practice while high-order rule learning during rest period	13

Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	12
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	12
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	11
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	11
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	11
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	10
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	10
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	10
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	10
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	10
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	10
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	9
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	9
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	9
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	9
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	9
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	9
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	9
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	8
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	8
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	8
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	8
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	8
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	7
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity	7
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	7
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	7
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication	7
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	6
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	6
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa	6
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	6
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory	6
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts	6
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning	6
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology	5
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children	5
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection	5
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder	5
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning	5
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	5
Change by challenge: A common genetic basis behind childhood cognitive development and cognitive training	5
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	5
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension	5
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	5
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness	5
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	5
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults	4
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide	4

A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers	4
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	4
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education	4
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	4
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach	4
How to capture developmental brain dynamics: gaps and solutions	4
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training	3
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	3
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence	3
First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability	3
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain	3
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts	3
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration	3
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality	3
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant	3
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	3
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status	3
Toward an understanding of when prior knowledge helps or hinders learning	3
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia	3
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	3
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	3
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text	3
Measuring and forecasting progress in education: what about early childhood?	3
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners	3
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation	3
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect	2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	2
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets	2
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	2
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions	2
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty	2
Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing	2
Arithmetic skills are associated with left fronto-temporal gray matter volume in 536 children and adolescents	2
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	2
A micro-genesis account of longer-form reinforcement learning in structured and unstructured environments	2
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	2
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain	2
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance	2
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses	2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions	2
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension	2
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	2
A dual-process model for cognitive training	2
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	2
Author Correction: The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	2