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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	45
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	36
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	35
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	32
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	32
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	32
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively	31
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	28
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	27
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	27
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	20
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	19
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	18
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	17
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	16
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	16
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details	15
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	13
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	13
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	13
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	13
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	13
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	13
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	13
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	12

Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	12
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	12
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	11
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	11
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	11
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	11
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	10
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	10
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	10
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	9
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	9
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	9
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	9
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	9
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	9
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	9
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	8
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	8
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	8
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	8
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	8
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	8
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	8
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	8
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	8
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	8
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	8
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	7
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity	7
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	7
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	7
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	7
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	6
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication	6
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	6
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa	6
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	6
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts	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
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory	5
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning	5
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people	5
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning	5
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension	5
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	5
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception	5
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder	4

Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education	4
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide	4
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	4
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers	4
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	4
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	4
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality	4
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	4
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults	4
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness	4
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach	4
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education	4
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	4
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	3
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	3
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant	3
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text	3
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets	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
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts	3
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status	3
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	3
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation	3
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia	3
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training	3
Measuring and forecasting progress in education: what about early childhood?	3
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration	3
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning	2
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty	2
Arithmetic skills are associated with left fronto-temporal gray matter volume in 536 children and adolescents	2
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect	2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions	2
Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education	2
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions	2
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	2
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education	2
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners	2
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	2
Author Correction: The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	2
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension	2
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance	2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	2
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	2
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions	2
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain	2
Toward an understanding of when prior knowledge helps or hinders learning	2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	2
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses	2
Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students	2
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	2
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	2
A dual-process model for cognitive training	2
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain	2