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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	74
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	53
Disentangling the contribution of individual and social learning processes in human advice-taking behavior	45
Attenuated conflict self-referential information facilitating conflict resolution	36
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	33
Nudging parents and teachers to improve learning and reduce child labor in Cote d’Ivoire	28
A genome-wide association study of Chinese and English language phenotypes in Hong Kong Chinese children	27
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection	26
Alpha sensory stimulation modulates theta phase during speech-print associative learning	26
A micro-genesis account of longer-form reinforcement learning in structured and unstructured environments	24
Editorial: Capturing developmental brain dynamics	24
Entering into a self-regulated learning mode prevents detrimental effects of feedback removal on memory	22
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	21
Applying the science of learning to EdTech evidence evaluations using the EdTech Evidence Evaluation Routine (EVER)	21
Does students’ awareness of school-track-related stereotypes exacerbate inequalities in education?	19
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	18
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	16
Native learning ability and not age determines the effects of brain stimulation	15
Differences in spatiotemporal brain network dynamics of Montessori and traditionally schooled students	14
Prevalence of undiagnosed dyslexia in African-American primary school children	14
Realizing the potential of mobile interventions for education	14
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	12
The two-faced process of learning and the importance of Janus-faced solutions	12
A dual-process model for cognitive training	12
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	12

Transcranial direct current stimulation targeting the bilateral IFG alters cognitive processes during creative ideation	12
Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	12
Using virtual reality to study spatial mapping and threat learning	11
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	11
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	10
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	10
Author Correction: Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects	9
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	9
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	9
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	9
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education	9
Dissipation of reactive inhibition is sufficient to explain post-rest improvements in motor sequence learning	9
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	8
Gender Inequality is negatively associated with academic achievement for both boys and girls	8
Deliberately making miskates: Behavioural consistency under win maximization and loss maximization conditions	8
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder	8
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	8
Interplay of socioeconomic status, cognition, and school performance in the ABCD sample	8
Seeking the neural representation of statistical properties in print during implicit processing of visual words	7
Development of performance and learning rate evaluation models in robot-assisted surgery using electroencephalography and eye-tracking	7
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions	7
Understanding protective and risk factors affecting adolescents’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty	7
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach	7
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain	7
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively	7
Change by challenge: A common genetic basis behind childhood cognitive development and cognitive training	6
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	6
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	6
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	6
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	6
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	6
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	6
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness	5
Teaching resources for the European Open Platform for Prescribing Education (EurOP2E)—a nominal group technique study	5
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	5
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	5
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	5
Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences	5
The practical utility of genetic screening in school settings	5
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	4
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	4
Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects	4
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	4
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults	4
Short naps improve subsequent learning in a high school setting	4
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	4
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	4
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance	4
Redesigning navigational aids using virtual global landmarks to improve spatial knowledge retrieval	4

Body-part specificity for learning of multiple prior distributions in human coincidence timing	3
Fostering inclusion in EEG measures of pediatric brain activity	3
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers	3
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	3
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	3
The effect of classroom environment on literacy development	3
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Knee flexion of saxophone players anticipates tonal context of music	3
Inequality in pandemic effects on school track placement and the role of social and academic embeddedness	3
Author Correction: The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	3
How to capture developmental brain dynamics: gaps and solutions	3
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details	3
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	3
Genetic associations with learning over 100 days of practice	3
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality	3
Alpha neurofeedback training improves visual working memory in healthy individuals	3
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	3
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	3
Improving online and offline gain from repetitive practice using anodal tDCS at dorsal premotor cortex	3
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	2
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	2
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	2
COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes. New global evidence from PISA	2
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	2
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	2
Rhythm, reading, and sound processing in the brain in preschool children	2
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	2
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions	2
Enhancing mathematical learning outcomes through a low-cost single-channel BCI system	2
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	2
The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	2
A systematic review of AI literacy scales	2
Neural computations in children’s third-party interventions are modulated by their parents’ moral values	2
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia	2
An artificial intelligence approach for selecting effective teacher communication strategies in autism education	2
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	2
An update on recent advances in targeted memory reactivation during sleep	2
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	2
Developmental brain dynamics of numerical and arithmetic abilities	2