| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Analysis of a complex of statistical variables into principal components. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1933 | 6,358 |
| 2 | Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1974 | 5,700 |
| 3 | Motivational and self-regulated learning components of classroom academic performance. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1990 | 4,869 |
| 4 | Classrooms: Goals, structures, and student motivation. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1992 | 4,266 |
| 5 | Achievement goals in the classroom: Students' learning strategies and motivation processes. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1988 | 2,388 |
| 6 | Motivation in the classroom: Reciprocal effects of teacher behavior and student engagement across the school year. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1993 | 2,004 |
| 7 | A social cognitive view of self-regulated academic learning. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1989 | 1,900 |
| 8 | Theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence: A critical experiment. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1963 | 1,893 |
| 9 | Teacher efficacy: A construct validation. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1984 | 1,852 |
| 10 | A theory of motivation for some classroom experiences. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1979 | 1,785 |
| 11 | A Motivational Science Perspective on the Role of Student Motivation in Learning and Teaching Contexts. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2003 | 1,678 |
| 12 | Sense of relatedness as a factor in children's academic engagement and performance. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2003 | 1,579 |
| 13 | Effects of beliefs about the nature of knowledge on comprehension. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1990 | 1,447 |
| 14 | Multiple goals, multiple pathways: The role of goal orientation in learning and achievement. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2000 | 1,367 |
| 15 | Training strategies for attaining transfer of problem-solving skill in statistics: A cognitive-load approach. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1992 | 1,345 |
| 16 | Refinement and test of the theory of fluid and crystallized general intelligences. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1966 | 1,336 |
| 17 | The double-deficit hypothesis for the developmental dyslexias. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1999 | 1,279 |
| 18 | Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2009 | 1,249 |
| 19 | Job resources boost work engagement, particularly when job demands are high. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2007 | 1,229 |
| 20 | Engagement and disaffection in the classroom: Part of a larger motivational dynamic? | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2008 | 1,203 |
| 21 | Effects on teachers' self-efficacy and job satisfaction: Teacher gender, years of experience, and job stress. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2010 | 1,201 |
| 22 | Learning to read and write: A longitudinal study of 54 children from first through fourth grades. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1988 | 1,181 |
| 23 | Student differences in self-regulated learning: Relating grade, sex, and giftedness to self-efficacy and strategy use. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1990 | 1,147 |
| 24 | A meta-analysis of the cognitive and motivational effects of serious games. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2013 | 1,091 |
| 25 | Academic self-efficacy and first year college student performance and adjustment. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2001 | 1,088 |
| 26 | Parent styles associated with children's self-regulation and competence in school. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1989 | 1,061 |
| 27 | Phenotypic performance profile of children with reading disabilities: A regression-based test of the phonological-core variable-difference model. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1994 | 1,047 |
| 28 | Intrinsic motivation and the process of learning: Beneficial effects of contextualization, personalization, and choice. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1996 | 1,043 |
| 29 | Analysis of a complex of statistical variables into principal components. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1933 | 1,020 |
| 30 | Engaging students in learning activities: It is not autonomy support or structure but autonomy support and structure. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2010 | 1,000 |
| 31 | Social relationships and motivation in middle school: The role of parents, teachers, and peers. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1998 | 989 |
| 32 | Dimensions of achievement motivation in schoolwork and sport. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1992 | 976 |
| 33 | Regression-discontinuity analysis: An alternative to the ex post facto experiment. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1960 | 974 |
| 34 | Children's Reading Comprehension Ability: Concurrent Prediction by Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Component Skills. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2004 | 973 |
| 35 | Perceptions of the school psychological environment and early adolescents' psychological and behavioral functioning in school: The mediating role of goals and belonging. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1996 | 959 |
| 36 | Role of self-efficacy and self-concept beliefs in mathematical problem solving: A path analysis. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1994 | 956 |
| 37 | What teachers say and do to support students' autonomy during a learning activity. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2006 | 940 |
| 38 | Dimensions of teacher self-efficacy and relations with strain factors, perceived collective teacher efficacy, and teacher burnout. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2007 | 932 |
| 39 | Advancing Achievement Goal Theory: Using Goal Structures and Goal Orientations to Predict Students' Motivation, Cognition, and Achievement. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2004 | 924 |
| 40 | Students' goal orientations and cognitive engagement in classroom activities. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1988 | 914 |
| 41 | A meta-analysis of writing instruction for adolescent students. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2007 | 902 |
| 42 | Cognitive principles of multimedia learning: The role of modality and contiguity. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1999 | 899 |
| 43 | Performance-approach goals: Good for what, for whom, under what circumstances, and at what cost? | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2001 | 890 |
| 44 | The use of advance organizers in the learning and retention of meaningful verbal material. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1960 | 886 |
| 45 | Relations of children's motivation for reading to the amount and breadth or their reading. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1997 | 881 |
| 46 | A split-attention effect in multimedia learning: Evidence for dual processing systems in working memory. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1998 | 880 |
| 47 | Predictors of math anxiety and its influence on young adolescents' course enrollment intentions and performance in mathematics. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1990 | 871 |
| 48 | Achievement goals and achievement emotions: Testing a model of their joint relations with academic performance. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2009 | 861 |
| 49 | Inner resources for school achievement: Motivational mediators of children's perceptions of their parents. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1991 | 857 |
| 50 | Does discovery-based instruction enhance learning? | Journal of Educational Psychology | 2011 | 850 |
