OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Science of Learning is 5. 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
An fMRI study of scientists with a Ph.D. in physics confronted with naive ideas in science	15
Enhancing learning and retention with distinctive virtual reality environments and mental context reinstatement	15
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	13
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	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
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	11
The effect of language on performance: do gendered languages fail women in maths?	11
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning	10
Effects of context on the neural correlates of attention in a college classroom	9

The practical utility of genetic screening in school settings	9
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
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	8
How to capture developmental brain dynamics: gaps and solutions	8
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	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
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
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