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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	62
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	40
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task	39
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance	37
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	33
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	32
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components	31
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	30
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity	21
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	20
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	20
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	20
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	20
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people	20
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	19
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	19
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics	17
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	17
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	17
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	16
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	16
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	15
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	15
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	15
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	15

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