OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Creativity Research Journal is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking	44
Flexible Semantic Network Structure Supports the Production of Creative Metaphor	28
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	25
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	25
The Blind-Variation and Selective-Retention Theory of Creativity: Recent Developments and Current Status of BVSR	23
How to Organize Creative and Innovative Teams: Creative Self-Efficacy and Innovative Team Performance	23
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness	18
Digital Games for Creativity Assessment: Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities	17
The Micro-genesis of Improvisational Co-creation	16
The Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity	16
A Thirst for Knowledge: Grounding Curiosity, Creativity, and Aesthetics in Memory and Reward Neural Systems	15
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	15
Defining Creativity: A View from the Arts	15
The Process Definition of Creativity	14
Conceptual and Measurement Specificity are Key: The Case of Creativity and Emotions	14
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers	13
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	13
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study	13
Malevolent Creativity and Malevolent Innovation: A Critical but Tenuous Linkage	12
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	11
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study	11
Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity	11
Inclusive Leadership and Creative Teaching: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing and Innovative Climate	11
Exploratory Behavior and the Temporal Structure of Soccer Small-Sided Games to Evaluate Creativity in Children	11
Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale: Relationship to Occupation and Measurement Invariance across Gender	11

A Contribution to Scientific Creativity: A Validation Study Measuring Divergent Problem Solving Ability	11
The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals	10
Does the Task Structure Impact the Fluency Confound in Divergent Thinking? An Investigation with TTCT-Figural	10
Minority Dissent, Openness to Change and Group Creativity	9
The Curvilinear Relation between Work Predictability and Creativity	9
Uncovering the Role of Motor Performance and Creative Thinking on Sports Creativity in Primary School-aged Children	9
Investigating the Influence of Social Media on Employee Creativity: A Perspective from Social Network Ties	9
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	9
An Analysis of Writer’s Block: Causes and Solutions	8
Creativity, Mating, and Reproductive Successes Outside the WEIRD World	8
Opposite Effect of Social Evaluation on Creative Idea Generation in Early and Middle Adolescents	8
Empathizing with the End User: Effect of Empathy and Emotional Intelligence on Ideation	8
Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments	8
How Can Creative Ideas Be Implemented?The Roles of Leader Performance-Prove Goal Orientation and Boundary-Spanning Strategy	7
Response Inhibition Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Emotional States and Creative Divergent Thinking	7
Lost in Translation? A Review of Popular-press Claims about Organizational Creativity and Innovation	7
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking	7
Toward Defining and Assessing Creativity in Sandbox Games	7
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	7
Mapping the Creative Personality: A Psychometric Network Analysis of Highly Creative Artists and Scientists	6
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	6
Creativity Studies Within the European Union: A Bibliometric Analysis	6
Foraging for New Ideas: Search and Research in Divergent Thinking Tasks	6
Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis	6
The Association between Imagination and Anxiety in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	6
Cognitive Component Analysis Comparing Three Chinese Remote Associates Tests: Linear Logistic Latent Trait Model Approach	6
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	6
Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI	6
Fostering Creative Agency through Screenwriting: An Intervention	6
What’s Creative About Sentences? A Computational Approach to Assessing Creativity in a Sentence Generation Task	5
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	5
High Artistic Achievements and Low Emotion Dysregulation: The Moderating and Mediating Role of Self-compassion	5
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	5
Role of Avoidance-Motivation Intensity in Creative Thinking: Similar and Differential Effects across Creative Idea Generation and Evaluation	5
A Behavioural Measure of Imagination Based on Conceptual Combination Theory	5
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	5
Individualism and Collectivism as Predictors of Creative Potentials and Real-Life Creativity in China and US	5
The Relationship between Leaders’ Long-Term Orientation and Employees’ Innovative Behaviors	5
Automated Creativity Prediction Using Natural Language Processing and Resting-State Functional Connectivity: An fNIRS Study	5
Culture, Executive Thinking Style, and Knowledge Fixation in the Development of Creativity in Hong Kong	4
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	4
Neural Representations of Conceptual Fixation during Creative Imagination	4
A Study on Developing Creative Thinking Skills in Students with Intellectual Disabilities Using Creative Drama	4
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	4
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	4
Creativity as It Unfolds: An Examination of Temporality in the Creative Process	4
Brain Network Associated with Three Types of Remote Associations: Graph Theory Analysis	4
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity	4
Conceptual Design of a Creative Artificial Intelligence System Based on the Neurocognitive Bases of Human Creativity in the Brain	4

Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period	4
Creative Factors and Psychotherapeutic Insight: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness	3
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	3
Measuring Faculty Viewpoints to Optimize Success for Faculty Researchers: Does Creativity Matter?	3
Assessing the Robustness of the Factor Structure of TTCT-Figural: A Meta-CFA Replication-Extension	3
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation	3
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas	3
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	3
Creativity Assessment, Research, and Practice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	3
Differential Effects of Schizotypy Dimensions on Creative Personality and Creative Products	3
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire	3
Creative Adaptability: A Measurable Personal Resource	3
The Effect of Psychological Symptoms on Divergent Thinking in Healthy Older Adults	3
When Time Flies: How Timelessness Determines Creative Process Engagement	3
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	3
Creative Minds at Rest: Creative Individuals are More Associative and Engaged with Their Idle Thoughts	3
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	3
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	3
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	2
IDHOL, a Holistic Model for the Analysis of Individual Differences in the Creative Process	2
A Computational Interrogation of “Big-C” and “Little-c” Creativity	2
Newspaper Editors’ Interactions with Journalistic Serendipity	2
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	2
The Effects of Environmental Scene and Body Posture on Embodied Strategies in Creative Thinking	2
Can Sitting Postures Influence the Creative Mind? Positive Effect of Contractive Posture on Convergent-Integrative Thinking	2
Unconscious Work Doesn’t Work	2
Individual Differences in Parietal and Premotor Activity During Spatial Cognition Predict Figural Creativity	2
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	2
Going Beyond the Brick: Assessing and Supporting Creativity Using AI-Powered Digital Games	2
Toward the Development of a Computer-Assisted, Real-Time Assessment of Ideational Dynamics in Collaborative Creative Groups	2
Emulating Coworkers: How and When Coworker Ideation Facilitates Employee Ideation	2
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements	2
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	2
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions	2
A Note from the Incoming Editor	2
Creativity in Emergency Settings	2
An Experimental Appraisal of the Acquisition of Creative Literary Compression versus Descriptive Texts	2
QEOSA: Testing a Pedagogical Model of Creative Problem Solving for Preschool Children	2
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians	2
Finding Creativity by Changing Perspectives: How the Evaluation Process Contributes to Creative Idea Recognition	2
Beethoven and Divergent Thinking	2
Beyond Openness: A Variety of Creative Experiences Increases Flexibility and Originality of Visuospatial Divergent Thinking	2
Creativity with 6 Degrees of Freedom: Feasibility Study of Visual Creativity Assessment in Virtual Reality	2
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	2
An Exploration of the Intersection Between Creativity and Psychotherapy	2
The Short Inventory of Creative Activities (S-ICA): Compiling a Short Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization	2
Planning Missing Data Designs for Human Ratings in Creativity Research: A Practical Guide	2
Perspective-Taking Feedback: A New Feedback Affecting Creativity	2