OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Motivation is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of stress and anxiety levels on science and engineering undergraduate students in spain when facing written assessments guides for positive interventions	93
Shaping inter-response time and run length using a discrete-trial percentile schedule combined with a fixed consecutive number procedure	83
Enhancing Chinese students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in EMI classrooms: Do learning motivation and academic self-efficacy matter?	66
Types of errors in Raven tests in a population with Down syndrome: An online assessment	48
Effects of europinidin-o-methylated anthocyanidin on scopolamine-induced memory impairments by improving neurological expression: An integrated with insilico and ADMET properties by computational anal	45
Uncovering the state of academic motivation, achievement emotion, self- confidence, and achievement goals in online/offline language instruction	43
Examining the role of classroom climate and teacher-student relationships in EFL students’ perceived learning outcomes: A self-determination theory perspective	37
How do personality traits of college students affect their learning flow experience?	32
The relationship between cognitive ability and motivation during cognitive tasks of varying complexity	32
Promoting learner flourishing and well-being beyond the classroom: The role of advising in language learning from a self-determination theory perspective	31
A preliminary investigation of eye-tracking software to inform an ABA renewal mitigation procedure	31
Evaluating voluntary abstinence from ethanol self-administration in rats using a concurrent-chains procedure	26
Investigating Chinese English learners’ readiness for Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies: A theory of planned behavior (TPB) perspective	26
The impact of EFL teachers’ emotioncy level on their motivation and academic engagement	24
Increasing trial discriminability in the ephemeral reward task does not improve optimal choice in pigeons (Columba livia)	24
Exploring age-related differences in virtual maze navigation: The impact of external cues on search-strategy	24
RETRACTED: Music education: Which is more effective – Traditional learning or the introduction of modern technologies to increase student motivation?	20
An analysis of the effects of topographically similar and dissimilar auditory stimuli on the accuracy and latency to respond in a math task	18
Cultural psychology of english translation through computer vision-based robotic interpretation	17
Oral contraceptive androgenicity affects symmetry processing speed in a visuospatial working memory task	16
Research on multimodal based learning evaluation method in smart classroom	15
Unlocking the interplay among Chinese EFL Learners’ L2 motivation, regulatory focus, and language learning achievement: From a regulatory focus theory perspective	15
Effect of chronic exposure to sertraline on social and cognitive behavior of adult male and female rats under social isolation stress	15
Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning	14
Efficacy of an expectancy-based training in mitigating the effect of explicit gender stereotype activation on motor learning in children	13

Mood affects attention in knowledge-free reasoning task, not scores	13
Reaction time and cognitive strategies: The role of education in task performance	13
Does digital task-based instruction make a difference in EFL university students’ motivation in Saudi Arabia? An Active theory perspective	12
Effect of Raha syrup on the motivational effects of morphine and CSF serotonin levels in rats	11
Editorial Board	11
The effect of ACE cycle based instruction on geometry self-efficacy beliefs in polygons learning area	11
Investigating the role of teacher concern in EFL students’ motivation, anxiety, and language achievement through the lens of self-determination theory	11
The mechanism of self-regulated learning among rural primary middle school students: Academic delay of gratification and resilience	11
Anxiety level of mastery and performance avoid goal oriented EAP learners: The effect of teacher supportive motivational discourse	11
Mitigating boredom in L2 Spanish reading class with the reading-writing continuation task	10
Behavioral analysis of teachers and students in higher education supervision mechanisms	10
The impact of pretraining on autoshaping and operant acquisition in rats is significant but transient	10
Metacognition: History, measurements, and the role in early childhood development and education	10
Metacognitive training for algebra teaching to high school students: An action research study	10
ABA, ABC, and AAB renewal effects and individual differences of learning on fear conditioning using social stimuli	10
Gamification in Vietnamese education: Assessing psychological need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and learning effectiveness	9
Generalization of conditioned fear in humans: Transitioning from episodic to semantic memory	9
Frustrative nonreward after extensive training in the consummatory successive negative contrast task	9
Learning the principles of stimulus control analysing human behaviour	9
The effectiveness of using interactive visual multimedia technology intervention in improving the literacy skills of children in rural China	9
Controlling separation-induced problem behavior in horses through target training	9
Harnessing generative AI: Exploring its impact on cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, learning retention, reward sensitivity, and motivation through reinforcement theory	9
The impact of academic self-efficacy and academic motivation on Chinese EFL students’ academic burnout	9
Vanillic acid alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced anxiety/depression-like behaviors and cerebral oxidative stress in male rats	9
AI-powered personalized learning: Enhancing self-efficacy, motivation, and digital literacy in adult education through expectancy-value theory	9
Enhancing EFL writing with visualised GenAI feedback: A cognitive affective theory of learning perspective on revision quality, emotional response, and human-computer interaction	8
Training model of practical innovative talents in polytechnic colleges based on fuzzy set and its extended modeling	8
Socioeconomic status stereotype affects motor learning	8
Examining interactions between baseline expectancy beliefs and task values on weekly motivation in an introductory statistics course	8
Aligning learning theories with Widening Access Mature Students’ perceptions: Insights from a mixed methods study in London, UK	8
Editorial Board	7
Overselectivity during reading-related tasks for children at risk for reading failure	7
Predicting learner autonomy in collaborative learning: The role of group metacognition and motivational regulation strategies	7
Effectiveness of a scaffolded autonomous learning scheme in enhancing learners’ motivation in EFL classes	7
Game theory without theory: Interactive choice in pigeons, humans and machines	7
Retrospective revaluation effects during interpersonal attributions	7
Nonhuman animal social behavior: Introduction to the special issue	7
Preservice teachers’ accuracy in measuring child engagement using a digitised momentary time sampling measure	7
Analysis of variability of pigeons’ pecking location under variable-interval schedules	7
A healthy lifestyle persuasive design model based on behavioral analysis	7
Disentangling three different conflicts at non-response/semantic and response levels in a new stroop-matching task	7
Editorial Board	7
Understanding cognitive maps from landmark and configurational representations	7
A single reminder trial updates fear memory and affects extinction in rats housed under different living conditions	6
Autonomous motivation in blended learning: Effects of teaching presence and basic psychological need satisfaction	6
Goal interruptions and task performance: The additional influence of goal orientations	6
Delving into the structural model of students’ music performance anxiety, self-efficacy, and motivation based on a self-determination theory	6
Acute stress increases behaviors that optimize safety and decreases the exploration of aversive areas	6
Mechanisms of copying, social learning, and imitation in animals	6
A mixed-methods investigation into complex components of multilingual international students' self-regulated learning in English as a foreign language context: A social cognitive perspective	6

The role of AI tools on EFL students’ motivation, self-efficacy, and anxiety: Through the lens of control-value theory