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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions	71
Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences	59
First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability	40
Brain dynamics of (a)typical reading development—a review of longitudinal studies	37
Growth mindset and academic outcomes: a comparison of US and Chinese students	33
Optimized collusion prevention for online exams during social distancing	25
Toward an understanding of when prior knowledge helps or hinders learning	24
Persistent association between family socioeconomic status and primary school performance in Britain over 95 years	22
Interleaved practice enhances memory and problem-solving ability in undergraduate physics	22
Developmental brain dynamics of numerical and arithmetic abilities	22
Common health conditions in childhood and adolescence, school absence, and educational attainment: Mendelian randomization study	21
Statistical learning occurs during practice while high-order rule learning during rest period	20
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	19
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	17
An artificial intelligence approach for selecting effective teacher communication strategies in autism education	17
Enhancing learning and retention with distinctive virtual reality environments and mental context reinstatement	15
An fMRI study of scientists with a Ph.D. in physics confronted with naive ideas in science	15
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	13
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	13
Associations between school enjoyment at age 6 and later educational achievement: evidence from a UK cohort study	12
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	12
The effect of language on performance: do gendered languages fail women in maths?	11
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	11
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning	10
Trajectories of performance change indicate multiple dissociable links between working memory and fluid intelligence	9

A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	9
Effects of context on the neural correlates of attention in a college classroom	9
The practical utility of genetic screening in school settings	9
How to capture developmental brain dynamics: gaps and solutions	8
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	8
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	8
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children	7
Understanding the role of eye movement consistency in face recognition and autism through integrating deep neural networks and hidden Markov models	7
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	7
Measuring and forecasting progress in education: what about early childhood?	7
Rhythm, reading, and sound processing in the brain in preschool children	7
Dissipation of reactive inhibition is sufficient to explain post-rest improvements in motor sequence learning	7
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology	7
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	7
Redesigning navigational aids using virtual global landmarks to improve spatial knowledge retrieval	6
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	6
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	6
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	6
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	6
Change by challenge: A common genetic basis behind childhood cognitive development and cognitive training	5
Enhancing senior high school student engagement and academic performance using an inclusive and scalable inquiry-based program	5
Knee flexion of saxophone players anticipates tonal context of music	5
The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet	5
Mindset and perceived parental support of autonomy safeguard adolescents’ autonomous motivation during COVID-19 home-based learning	5
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	5
Cognitive training enhances growth mindset in children through plasticity of cortico-striatal circuits	5
Neural computations in children’s third-party interventions are modulated by their parents’ moral values	5
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	4
Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing	4
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	4
A dual-process model for cognitive training	4
Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the learning condition hypothesis	4
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	4
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	4
Stable, flexible, common, and distinct behaviors support rule-based and information-integration category learning	4
Multivariate genome-wide covariance analyses of literacy, language and working memory skills reveal distinct etiologies	4
Fostering inclusion in EEG measures of pediatric brain activity	4
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	4
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	3
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	3
Improving online and offline gain from repetitive practice using anodal tDCS at dorsal premotor cortex	3
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	3
Nudging parents and teachers to improve learning and reduce child labor in Cote d’Ivoire	3
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets	3
Action video games normalise the phonemic awareness in pre-readers at risk for developmental dyslexia	3
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	3
The effect of classroom environment on literacy development	3
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	3
Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	3
A RCT for assessment of active human-centred learning finds teacher-centric non-human teaching of evolution optimal	3

The International Science and Evidence-based Education Assessment	3
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	3
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension	3
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	3
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	3
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	3
Who’s learning? Using within-family studies to understand personalized learning	3
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning	2
A methodological perspective on learning in the developing brain	2
Genetic associations with learning over 100 days of practice	2
Development of performance and learning rate evaluation models in robot-assisted surgery using electroencephalography and eye-tracking	2
Teaching resources for the European Open Platform for Prescribing Education (EurOP2E)—a nominal group technique study	2
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	2
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	2
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details	2
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively	2
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	2
Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects	2
Disentangling the contribution of individual and social learning processes in human advice-taking behavior	2
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status	2
Questioning central assumptions of the ICAP framework	2
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	2
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	2
Does students’ awareness of school-track-related stereotypes exacerbate inequalities in education?	2
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	2