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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Creative Experience: A Non-Standard Definition of Creativity	68
Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking	37
Creativity-focused Technology Education in the Age of Industry 4.0	35
Perceived Organizational Support and Employee Creativity: The Mediation Role of Calling	28
Flexible Semantic Network Structure Supports the Production of Creative Metaphor	21
How to Organize Creative and Innovative Teams: Creative Self-Efficacy and Innovative Team Performance	19
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	16
Divergent Thinking: The Role of Decision-Making Styles	16
Different Moods Lead to Different Creativity: Mediating Roles of Ambiguity Tolerance and Team Identification	15
Defining Creativity: How Far Have We Come Since Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow?	13
Defining Creativity: A View from the Arts	13
The Blind-Variation and Selective-Retention Theory of Creativity: Recent Developments and Current Status of BVSR	13
Digital Games for Creativity Assessment: Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities	12
The Micro-genesis of Improvisational Co-creation	12
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	12
The Impact of Surface and Deep Acting on Employee Creativity	12
The Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity	11
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	11
Emotional Creativity: A Meta-analysis and Integrative Review	11
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study	11
The Order - Chaos Dynamic of Creativity	9
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness	9
Malevolent Creativity and Malevolent Innovation: A Critical but Tenuous Linkage	9
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	9
Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale: Relationship to Occupation and Measurement Invariance across Gender	9

Is the Reliability of Objective Originality Scores Confounded by Elaboration?	8
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers	8
Uncovering the Role of Motor Performance and Creative Thinking on Sports Creativity in Primary School-aged Children	8
Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity	8
Exploratory Behavior and the Temporal Structure of Soccer Small-Sided Games to Evaluate Creativity in Children	8
A Statistical Study of Intra-Domain and Trans-Domain Polymathy among Nobel Laureates	8
Conceptual and Measurement Specificity are Key: The Case of Creativity and Emotions	8
The Effects of Religious Orientations on Malevolent Creativity: Role of Positive Emotions and Spiritual Intelligence	8
Relationship between Parents’ Cultural Values and Children’s Creativity	7
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study	7
Easy to Remember, Easy to Forget? The Memorability of Creative Advertisements	7
The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals	7
Lost in Translation? A Review of Popular-press Claims about Organizational Creativity and Innovation	7
Empathizing with the End User: Effect of Empathy and Emotional Intelligence on Ideation	7
Creativity, Mating, and Reproductive Successes Outside the WEIRD World	7
How Can Creative Ideas Be Implemented?The Roles of Leader Performance-Prove Goal Orientation and Boundary-Spanning Strategy	6
A Thirst for Knowledge: Grounding Curiosity, Creativity, and Aesthetics in Memory and Reward Neural Systems	6
The Association between Imagination and Anxiety in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Foraging for New Ideas: Search and Research in Divergent Thinking Tasks	6
Cognitive Component Analysis Comparing Three Chinese Remote Associates Tests: Linear Logistic Latent Trait Model Approach	6
Fostering Creative Agency through Screenwriting: An Intervention	6
Minority Dissent, Openness to Change and Group Creativity	6
Does the Task Structure Impact the Fluency Confound in Divergent Thinking? An Investigation with TTCT-Figural	6
What’s Creative About Sentences? A Computational Approach to Assessing Creativity in a Sentence Generation Task	5
How Can We Measure the Magnitude of Creative Cities? A New Creativity Index: 3Ci	5
The Relationship between Leaders’ Long-Term Orientation and Employees’ Innovative Behaviors	5
Strict Equal Odds: A Useful Reference to Study the Relationship between Quality and Quantity	5
Role of Avoidance-Motivation Intensity in Creative Thinking: Similar and Differential Effects across Creative Idea Generation and Evaluation	5
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	5
Assessment of Creativity in Dance in Children: Development and Validation of a Test Instrument	5
Creativity Studies Within the European Union: A Bibliometric Analysis	5
Opposite Effect of Social Evaluation on Creative Idea Generation in Early and Middle Adolescents	5
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	5
Inclusive Leadership and Creative Teaching: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing and Innovative Climate	5
Employees’ Attitudes and Values toward Creativity, Work Environment, and Job Satisfaction in Human Service Employees	5
A Behavioural Measure of Imagination Based on Conceptual Combination Theory	4
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	4
High Artistic Achievements and Low Emotion Dysregulation: The Moderating and Mediating Role of Self-compassion	4
An Analysis of Writer’s Block: Causes and Solutions	4
Ideation and Design Ability as Antecedents for Design Expertise	4
Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis	4
Can Concept Mapping Facilitate Verbal Divergent Thinking?	4
Exploring the Effects of LED Lighting Training Program on Motor Performance among Young Athletes	4
Automated Creativity Prediction Using Natural Language Processing and Resting-State Functional Connectivity: An fNIRS Study	4
Culture, Executive Thinking Style, and Knowledge Fixation in the Development of Creativity in Hong Kong	4
Response Inhibition Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Emotional States and Creative Divergent Thinking	4
Neural Representations of Conceptual Fixation during Creative Imagination	4
Factor Structure of Play Creativity: A New Instrument to Assess Movement Creativity	4
The Impact of Educational Motivation and Self-acceptance on Creativity among High School Students	4
A Contribution to Scientific Creativity: A Validation Study Measuring Divergent Problem Solving Ability	4

Toward Defining and Assessing Creativity in Sandbox Games	4
The Curvilinear Relation between Work Predictability and Creativity	4
Creative Factors and Psychotherapeutic Insight: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness	3
Conceptual Design of a Creative Artificial Intelligence System Based on the Neurocognitive Bases of Human Creativity in the Brain	3
A Study on Developing Creative Thinking Skills in Students with Intellectual Disabilities Using Creative Drama	3
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	3
Age as the Most Prominent Predictor of Young Children’s Creativity Performance and Challenges at Critical Turning Points Early in Life	3
Mapping the Creative Personality: A Psychometric Network Analysis of Highly Creative Artists and Scientists	3
Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments	3
The Process Definition of Creativity	3
Investigating the Influence of Social Media on Employee Creativity: A Perspective from Social Network Ties	3
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	3
The Effect of Psychological Symptoms on Divergent Thinking in Healthy Older Adults	3
The impact of theatre on empathy and self-esteem: a meta-analysis	3
Dance Improvisation and Motor Creativity in Children: Teachers’ Conceptions	3
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period	3
Differential Effects of Schizotypy Dimensions on Creative Personality and Creative Products	3
School Students’ Implicit Theories of Creativity and their Self Perceptions as Artists	3
Creativity in Emergency Settings	2
Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI	2
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	2
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	2
Toward the Development of a Computer-Assisted, Real-Time Assessment of Ideational Dynamics in Collaborative Creative Groups	2
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas	2
When Time Flies: How Timelessness Determines Creative Process Engagement	2
Impact of Teachers’ Leadership on the Creative Tendencies of Students: The Mediating Role of Goal-orientation	2
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	2
DRD2 Taq IA Polymorphism Interacts with Parenting in Predicting Creativity: Evidence of Differential Susceptibility	2
An Experimental Appraisal of the Acquisition of Creative Literary Compression versus Descriptive Texts	2
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire	2
Free Play or Not Free Play: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Deal with Paradoxes	2
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	2
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	2
Creativity with 6 Degrees of Freedom: Feasibility Study of Visual Creativity Assessment in Virtual Reality	2
Trends and Foundations of Creativity Research in Education: A Method Based on Text Mining	2
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	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
QEOSA: Testing a Pedagogical Model of Creative Problem Solving for Preschool Children	2
Brain Network Associated with Three Types of Remote Associations: Graph Theory Analysis	2
Perspective-Taking Feedback: A New Feedback Affecting Creativity	2
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index	2
Emulating Coworkers: How and When Coworker Ideation Facilitates Employee Ideation	2
Newspaper Editors’ Interactions with Journalistic Serendipity	2
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	2
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	2
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	2