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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	93
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	79
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	63
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	47
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	44
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	39
Cathodal Stimulation on Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Restructuring Process Underlying Insight Problem Solving	38
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	34
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	32
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	29
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	28
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	28
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	26
The Process Definition of Creativity	26
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	23
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	23
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	23
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	21
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	18
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	18
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	17
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	17
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	17
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	16
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	16

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

Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism	6
The Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity	6
Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?	5
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	5
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers	5
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	5
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value	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
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements	5
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions	5
Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas	5
Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking	5
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”	5
Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences	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
Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creativity – a Neurophysiological Index for the Convergence-Divergence Continuum	4
Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?	4
Context Connection: A Product Creative Design Method for Integrating Design Materials and Design Resources	4
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education	4
Evaluating Drawings’ Creativity: Synchrony Effects on Rater Bias and the Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal	4
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve: A New Generation of Rising Stars, a New Special Issue	4
Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity	4
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	4
Are Creativity Tests Vulnerable to Coaching?	4
Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity: Empathy and Sensory Sensitivities in Children Predict Creative Activities and Openness	4
How to Translate Creative Ideas into Innovation?Differential Resources for Proactive and Responsive Team Idea Generation	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
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	4
Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity	4
Psychometrics of Art – Validation of RizbA, a Quantitative Rating Instrument for Pictorial Expression	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	3
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	3
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms	3
The Impact of Visual Art-Based Educational Interventions on Creativity: Α Meta-Analysis	3
Creativity as It Unfolds: An Examination of Temporality in the Creative Process	3
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period	3
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	3
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review	3
Testing Computational Assessment of Idea Novelty in Crowdsourcing	3
Creativity Studies Within the European Union: A Bibliometric Analysis	3
Creativity on Tap? The Effect of Creativity Anxiety Under Evaluative Pressure	3
A Study on Developing Creative Thinking Skills in Students with Intellectual Disabilities Using Creative Drama	3
Supporting Flow Experience in Psychotherapy Through an Inspiration Tool: A Randomized Controlled Trial	3
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research	3
Do Creativity Metrics from Design Research Correlate with Those from Psychology?	3
Two Kinds of Visual Art Prodigies: Characteristics and Future Trajectories	3
AI’s Influence on Human Creative Agency	3
Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI	3