OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Science of Learning 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	45
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	36
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	35
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	32
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	32
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	32
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively	31
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	28
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	27
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	27
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	20
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	19
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	18
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	17
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	16
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	16
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details	15
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	13
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	13
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	13
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	13
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	13
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	13
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	13
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	12

Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	12
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	12
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	11
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	11
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	11
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	11
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	10
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	10
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	10
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	9
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	9
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	9
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	9
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	9
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	9
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	9
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	8
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	8
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	8
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	8
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	8
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	8
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	8
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	8
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	8
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	8
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	8
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	7
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	7
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity	7
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	7
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	7
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	6
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts	6
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	6
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication	6
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	6
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa	6