OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Creativity Research Journal is 3. 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
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	104
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	95
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	69
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	56
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	52
Cathodal Stimulation on Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Restructuring Process Underlying Insight Problem Solving	42
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	39
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	38
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	33
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	33
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	31
The Process Definition of Creativity	30
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	28
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	27
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	25
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	25
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	22
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	20
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	18
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	18
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	17
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	16
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	16
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	16
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	16

Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	15
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	15
Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking	14
An Analysis of Writer’s Block: Causes and Solutions	13
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood	13
The Development of Divergent Thinking in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children	12
Culture, Executive Thinking Style, and Knowledge Fixation in the Development of Creativity in Hong Kong	12
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index	12
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians	12
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study	11
Brain Network Associated with Three Types of Remote Associations: Graph Theory Analysis	11
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation	11
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study	11
The One-I Model of Creativity: A Commentary on Green et al. (2024)	10
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	10
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory	10
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity	10
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	9
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	9
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	9
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	9
Can Viewing Films Promote Creative Thinking Styles? Examining The Complex Roles of Personality and Meaning-Making	9
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity	9
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices	9
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children	9
Creative Empathy	9
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	8
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements	8
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas	8
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking	8
Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation	8
Validation and Use of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) Instrument for Secondary School Students	7
Can There Be Another Einstein?	7
How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity?	7
Building More Accurate Shared Leadership Theory: The Double Threshold Effect of Shared Leadership on Multilevel Creativity	7
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness	7
Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments	7
The Effect of Experimental Manipulation of Self-Objectification on Creative Potential in Adolescents	7
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	7
Agency in Human-AI Collaboration for Image Generation and Creative Writing: Preliminary Insights from Think-Aloud Protocols	7
Creative Adaptability: A Measurable Personal Resource	7
Individualism and Collectivism as Predictors of Creative Potentials and Real-Life Creativity in China and US	7
Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reveals Differences in Large-Scale Network Interactions Between Eminent and Non-Eminent Thinkers	7
Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity	6
Fit-For-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic Scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP)	6
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value	6
The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Creative Cognition: A Systematic Review of Experiment-Based Research	6
Creativity in Emergency Settings	6
Generation of Novel Ideas: Creativity in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Older Adults	6
Unconscious Work Doesn’t Work	6

Is Curiosity Killed by the CAT? A Divergent, Open-Ended, and Generative (DOG) Approach to Creativity Assessment	6
Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism	6
Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?	6
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	5
Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity: Empathy and Sensory Sensitivities in Children Predict Creative Activities and Openness	5
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	5
Are Creativity Tests Vulnerable to Coaching?	5
Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas	5
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions	5
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	5
Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?	5
Psychometrics of Art – Validation of RizbA , a Quantitative Rating Instrument for Pictorial Expression	5
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education	5
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements	5
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	5
Comparing Expert, Quasi-Expert, and Novice Evaluations of Award-Winning Design Products Using the Consensual Assessment Technique	5
Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creativity – a Neurophysiological Index for the Convergence-Divergence Continuum	5
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”	5
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	5
Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking	5
Associations Between Brain Functional Network Characteristics and Musical Creative Achievement	5
Context Connection: A Product Creative Design Method for Integrating Design Materials and Design Resources	4
Evaluating Drawings’ Creativity: Synchrony Effects on Rater Bias and the Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal	4
Creativity and Attention Control: An Individual Difference Approach	4
Virtual Creativity – Bibliometric Literature Review on Measurements and Factors That Influence Creative Virtual Teamwork	4
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	4
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve: A New Generation of Rising Stars, a New Special Issue	4
Managing Your Muse: Exploring Three Levels of Metacognitive Control in Creative Ideation	4
Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity	4
Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects	4
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review	4
How to Translate Creative Ideas into Innovation?Differential Resources for Proactive and Responsive Team Idea Generation	4
East-West Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Research Impact	4
Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities	4
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	4
Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences	4
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research	3
Testing Computational Assessment of Idea Novelty in Crowdsourcing	3
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period	3
Do Creativity Metrics from Design Research Correlate with Those from Psychology?	3
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms	3
Creativity Studies Within the European Union: A Bibliometric Analysis	3
Creativity on Tap? The Effect of Creativity Anxiety Under Evaluative Pressure	3
Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI	3
Two Kinds of Visual Art Prodigies: Characteristics and Future Trajectories	3
Supporting Flow Experience in Psychotherapy Through an Inspiration Tool: A Randomized Controlled Trial	3
AI’s Influence on Human Creative Agency	3
The Impact of Visual Art-Based Educational Interventions on Creativity: Α Meta-Analysis	3