OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Science of Learning is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	79
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance	45
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	42
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	37
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task	35
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	32
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components	29
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	26
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people	22
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	22
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity	22
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	22
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	21
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	21
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	20
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	20
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	20
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	19
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	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
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	16
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics	16
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	16
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	15

Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	15
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	15
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	14
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	14
Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words	14
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning	14
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	13
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	13
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	13
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	13
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	13
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	13
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	13
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	12
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research	12
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	12
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	12
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school	12
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	12
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	11
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	11
Learning reduces ingroup bias more with perceived losses than gains across cultures	11
Publisher Correction: How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making	11
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	11
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	10
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	10
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	10
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	9
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	9
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	9
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	9
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	9
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	9
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	9
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	9
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance	9
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	8
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	8
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	8
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	8
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	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	7
Question asking practice fosters aspects of curiosity in science content in young children	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