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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	81
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	65
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	61
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	41
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	37
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	36
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	34
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	29
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	26
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	26
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	24
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	24
The Process Definition of Creativity	23
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	22
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	22
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	21
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	21
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	21
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	20
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	19
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	18
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	18
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	17
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	17
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	17

On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	16
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood	15
An Analysis of Writer’s Block: Causes and Solutions	15
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index	15
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	14
Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking	13
The Development of Divergent Thinking in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children	13
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study	12
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians	12
Brain Network Associated with Three Types of Remote Associations: Graph Theory Analysis	12
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study	12
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity	12
Culture, Executive Thinking Style, and Knowledge Fixation in the Development of Creativity in Hong Kong	12
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation	11
The One-I Model of Creativity: A Commentary on Green et al. (2024)	11
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study	11
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices	11
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	11
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	11
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children	10
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory	9
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	9
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	9
Can Viewing Films Promote Creative Thinking Styles? Examining The Complex Roles of Personality and Meaning-Making	8
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity	8
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements	8
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	8
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking	7
Individualism and Collectivism as Predictors of Creative Potentials and Real-Life Creativity in China and US	7
How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity?	7
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas	7
Creative Empathy	7
Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reveals Differences in Large-Scale Network Interactions Between Eminent and Non-Eminent Thinkers	7
Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments	7
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	7
Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation	7
Digital Games for Creativity Assessment: Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities	7
The Effect of Experimental Manipulation of Self-Objectification on Creative Potential in Adolescents	7
Creative Adaptability: A Measurable Personal Resource	6
Validation and Use of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) Instrument for Secondary School Students	6
Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity	6
Minority Dissent, Openness to Change and Group Creativity	6
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	6
The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Creative Cognition: A Systematic Review of Experiment-Based Research	6
Building More Accurate Shared Leadership Theory: The Double Threshold Effect of Shared Leadership on Multilevel Creativity	6
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness	6
Fit-For-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic Scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP)	5
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements	5
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value	5
Comparing Expert, Quasi-Expert, and Novice Evaluations of Award-Winning Design Products Using the Consensual Assessment Technique	5

Creativity in Emergency Settings	5
The Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity	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
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	5
Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism	5
Is Curiosity Killed by the CAT? A Divergent, Open-Ended, and Generative (DOG) Approach to Creativity Assessment	5
Associations Between Brain Functional Network Characteristics and Musical Creative Achievement	5
Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?	5
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	5
Generation of Novel Ideas: Creativity in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Older Adults	5
Unconscious Work Doesn’t Work	5
Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking	4
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”	4
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	4
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education	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
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers	4
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	4
Psychometrics of Art – Validation of RizbA, a Quantitative Rating Instrument for Pictorial Expression	4
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	4
Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity: Empathy and Sensory Sensitivities in Children Predict Creative Activities and Openness	4
Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creativity – a Neurophysiological Index for the Convergence-Divergence Continuum	4
Are Creativity Tests Vulnerable to Coaching?	4
Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity	4
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve: A New Generation of Rising Stars, a New Special Issue	3
Evaluating Drawings’ Creativity: Synchrony Effects on Rater Bias and the Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal	3
Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences	3
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	3
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research	3
Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects	3
Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities	3
East-West Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Research Impact	3
Creativity and Attention Control: An Individual Difference Approach	3
Virtual Creativity – Bibliometric Literature Review on Measurements and Factors That Influence Creative Virtual Teamwork	3
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	3
Individual Differences in Parietal and Premotor Activity During Spatial Cognition Predict Figural Creativity	3
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period	3
How to Translate Creative Ideas into Innovation?Differential Resources for Proactive and Responsive Team Idea Generation	3
Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity	3
Managing Your Muse: Exploring Three Levels of Metacognitive Control in Creative Ideation	3
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms	3
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review	3
Do Creativity Metrics from Design Research Correlate with Those from Psychology?	3