OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Science of Learning is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	196
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	115
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance	87
Longitudinal associations between sedentary behavior types and mathematics ability mediated by externalizing and internalizing problems	66
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task	60
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	53
Development and validation of a multidimensional scale for AI tutoring acceptance in higher education	53
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	45
Curious behaviors in times of uncertainty: dynamics of student question-posing in online educational discussion	40
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	36
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people	35
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	34
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity	33
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	28
Modulating sleep: slow oscillation and spindle stimulation effects on physiology and memory	28
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	27
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	26
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components	26
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	25
Unveiling the impact of goal types: enhancing self-efficacy in rehabilitation robotics	25
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	24
Reading ability conflates SES creativity gaps	23
Semantic relatedness and the efficacy of retrieval practice	23
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	23
Trends in testing effect research: from lab to classroom, but not yet for all learners	23

Toward a unified vocabulary for embodiment research challenges and solutions	22
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	22
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	22
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	22
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics	22
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	21
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	21
Lab perceptual training and robot-assisted training in improving speech prosody of autistic children	20
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	20
Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words	20
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	19
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning	19
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	19
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	19
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	18
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	18
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	18
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	17
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	17
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	17
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school	16
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	16
Benefits of classroom remote microphone technology for inattentive children	15
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	15
Neural patterns reflect conceptual grasp of novice students following first class learning in physics	15
Embodied word learning in schools and sustained attention in virtual reality	15
Fragmented learning from short videos modulates neural activity and connectivity during memory retrieval	14
Publisher Correction: How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making	14
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	14
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	13
High-intensity cardiovascular exercise facilitates online motor skill learning, with no effect of BDNF genotype	13
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research	13
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	13
Children consider changes in performance over time when reasoning about academic achievements	13
Learning reduces ingroup bias more with perceived losses than gains across cultures	12
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	12
A practical implementation science framework for education	11
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	11
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	11
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	11
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	11
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	11
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	10
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	10
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	10
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance	10
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	9
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	9
Shared genetic architecture of reading and attention disorders using genomic structural equation modeling	9
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	9

Question asking practice fosters aspects of curiosity in science content in young children	9
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	9
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	9