OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Science of Learning is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task	144
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	82
Longitudinal associations between sedentary behavior types and mathematics ability mediated by externalizing and internalizing problems	67
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	59
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance	52
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	48
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	42
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components	39
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	35
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	33
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	32
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people	31
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	29
Modulating sleep: slow oscillation and spindle stimulation effects on physiology and memory	27
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity	26
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	26
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	25
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	24
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	23
Reading ability conflates SES creativity gaps	23
Toward a unified vocabulary for embodiment research challenges and solutions	22
Semantic relatedness and the efficacy of retrieval practice	22
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	22
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	22
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	21

Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics	21
Trends in testing effect research: from lab to classroom, but not yet for all learners	20
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	20
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	19
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	19
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	19
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning	19
Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words	19
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	18
Lab perceptual training and robot-assisted training in improving speech prosody of autistic children	18
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	18
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	17
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	17
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	17
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	17
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	17
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	16
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	16
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school	16
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	16
Embodied word learning in schools and sustained attention in virtual reality	16
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	16
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	15
Fragmented learning from short videos modulates neural activity and connectivity during memory retrieval	14
Neural patterns reflect conceptual grasp of novice students following first class learning in physics	14
Benefits of classroom remote microphone technology for inattentive children	14
Children consider changes in performance over time when reasoning about academic achievements	13
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	13
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	13
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	12
Publisher Correction: How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making	12
Learning reduces ingroup bias more with perceived losses than gains across cultures	12
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research	12
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	12
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	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
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	11
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance	11
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	11
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	11
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	10
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	10
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	10
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	10
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	10
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	10
Question asking practice fosters aspects of curiosity in science content in young children	9
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	9
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	9

Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	9
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity	8
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	8
Executive functions as mediators of early educational disparities by SES, gender and birth month	8
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication	8
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	8
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	8