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 2021-04-01 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
Editorial: Capturing developmental brain dynamics	24
A micro-genesis account of longer-form reinforcement learning in structured and unstructured environments	24
Entering into a self-regulated learning mode prevents detrimental effects of feedback removal on memory	22
Applying the science of learning to EdTech evidence evaluations using the EdTech Evidence Evaluation Routine (EVER)	21
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	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
Prevalence of undiagnosed dyslexia in African-American primary school children	14
Realizing the potential of mobile interventions for education	14
Differences in spatiotemporal brain network dynamics of Montessori and traditionally schooled students	14
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

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
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	11
Using virtual reality to study spatial mapping and threat learning	11
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	10
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	10
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
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
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
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	8
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
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
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
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