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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	140
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	131
Investigating the Validity Evidence of Automated Scoring Methods for Divergent Thinking Assessments	80
Does Pretend Play Predict Later Creativity Development? Exploring Creative Trajectories from Pre-Kindergarten Through First Grade	74
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	53
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	53
Cathodal Stimulation on Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Restructuring Process Underlying Insight Problem Solving	47
Measuring Creative Ideation: Chinese Validation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	43
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	41
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	40
Non-Linear Relationships Between Creativity Ratings of Musical Improvisations and Melodic Complexity	40
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	29
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	29
The Process Definition of Creativity	26
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	23
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	22
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	20
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	19
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	19
Are Individual-Level Factors Necessary for Creativity in the Workplace? A Necessary Condition Analysis	18
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	18
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	16
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	16
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	16
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	16

Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	15
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	15
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	15
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	15
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	14
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index	14
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians	14
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	13
The Development of Divergent Thinking in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children	13
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood	13
Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking	13
Second-Order Meta-Analysis of the Creativity Research	13
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study	12
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	12
The One-I Model of Creativity: A Commentary on Green et al. (2024)	12
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation	12
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study	12
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity	12
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children	11
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	11
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices	11
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory	11
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	11
Can Viewing Films Promote Creative Thinking Styles? Examining The Complex Roles of Personality and Meaning-Making	10
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	10
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	10
Creative Empathy	10
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements	10
Can There Be Another Einstein?	9
Individualism and Collectivism as Predictors of Creative Potentials and Real-Life Creativity in China and US	9
Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reveals Differences in Large-Scale Network Interactions Between Eminent and Non-Eminent Thinkers	9
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	9
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking	9
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity	9
Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments	8
How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity?	8
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness	8
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas	8
Peering Through the Kaleidoscope: A Systematic Review of Creativity Assessments Within PK-12 Settings	8
Creative Adaptability: A Measurable Personal Resource	8
Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation	8
The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Creative Cognition: A Systematic Review of Experiment-Based Research	8
Validation and Use of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) Instrument for Secondary School Students	7
Creativity in Emergency Settings	7
Fit-For-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic Scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP)	7
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements	7
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	7
Cognitive Fixation Mechanisms and Creativity: An Integrative Review	7
Unconscious Work Doesn’t Work	7
Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity	7

Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?	7
Building More Accurate Shared Leadership Theory: The Double Threshold Effect of Shared Leadership on Multilevel Creativity	7
Agency in Human-AI Collaboration for Image Generation and Creative Writing: Preliminary Insights from Think-Aloud Protocols	7
A Rubric-Guided Multimodal Approach Using High-Capacity LLMs Provides Psychometrically Sound Creativity Assessment in Learning Games	7
Generation of Novel Ideas: Creativity in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Older Adults	7
Is Curiosity Killed by the CAT? A Divergent, Open-Ended, and Generative (DOG) Approach to Creativity Assessment	7
Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism	7
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	6
Associations Between Brain Functional Network Characteristics and Musical Creative Achievement	6
Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas	6
Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking	6
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	6
Comparing Expert, Quasi-Expert, and Novice Evaluations of Award-Winning Design Products Using the Consensual Assessment Technique	6
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value	6
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions	6
Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity: Empathy and Sensory Sensitivities in Children Predict Creative Activities and Openness	5
Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creativity – a Neurophysiological Index for the Convergence-Divergence Continuum	5
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve: A New Generation of Rising Stars, a New Special Issue	5
East-West Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Research Impact	5
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education	5
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	5
Are Creativity Tests Vulnerable to Coaching?	5
Developmental Dynamics of Children’s Creative Thinking Following Knowledge-Structure Interventions: Longitudinal Evidence from Semantic Network Analysis	5
Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?	5
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”	5
Creativity and Attention Control: An Individual Difference Approach	5
Evaluating Drawings’ Creativity: Synchrony Effects on Rater Bias and the Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal	5
Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences	4
Exploring Creative Inflection Points: A Comparative Study of Human and GenAI Design Task Performance	4
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review	4
Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities	4
Context Connection: A Product Creative Design Method for Integrating Design Materials and Design Resources	4
Managing Your Muse: Exploring Three Levels of Metacognitive Control in Creative Ideation	4
Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects	4
Creative Opportunities at Work. A New Concept and Its Relevance for Employee Creativity and Well-Being	4
Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity	4
Virtual Creativity – Bibliometric Literature Review on Measurements and Factors That Influence Creative Virtual Teamwork	4
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	4
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research	4
The Impact of Adding a Fourth Item to the Traditional 3-Item Remote Associates Test	3
Creativity on Tap? The Effect of Creativity Anxiety Under Evaluative Pressure	3
Supporting Flow Experience in Psychotherapy Through an Inspiration Tool: A Randomized Controlled Trial	3
Two Kinds of Visual Art Prodigies: Characteristics and Future Trajectories	3
Creativity as It Unfolds: An Examination of Temporality in the Creative Process	3
SCAMPER Intervention Enhances Creative Performance by Activating Goal-Directed Association Brain Networks in Constrained Product-Design Tasks	3
Do Creativity Metrics from Design Research Correlate with Those from Psychology?	3
Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI	3
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms	3
AI’s Influence on Human Creative Agency	3
Creativity Studies Within the European Union: A Bibliometric Analysis	3
Involvement of Executive Control in Metaphor Comprehension: An Exploratory Study Using ERPs and sLORETA	3
The Ties That Bind: Low Morals, High Deception, and Dark Creativity	3
The Impact of Visual Art-Based Educational Interventions on Creativity: Α Meta-Analysis	3
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period	3
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	3
Testing Computational Assessment of Idea Novelty in Crowdsourcing	3
Beethoven as a Divergent Versus Strategic Thinker: Implications for the Study of Creative Thinking	3
Conceptual and Measurement Specificity are Key: The Case of Creativity and Emotions	3