OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Creativity Research Journal is 5. 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
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	25
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	25
How to Organize Creative and Innovative Teams: Creative Self-Efficacy and Innovative Team Performance	23
The Blind-Variation and Selective-Retention Theory of Creativity: Recent Developments and Current Status of BVSR	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 Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity	16
The Micro-genesis of Improvisational Co-creation	16
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
A Thirst for Knowledge: Grounding Curiosity, Creativity, and Aesthetics in Memory and Reward Neural Systems	15
Conceptual and Measurement Specificity are Key: The Case of Creativity and Emotions	14
The Process Definition of Creativity	14
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	13
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study	13
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers	13
Malevolent Creativity and Malevolent Innovation: A Critical but Tenuous Linkage	12
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
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
Does the Task Structure Impact the Fluency Confound in Divergent Thinking? An Investigation with TTCT-Figural	10
The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals	10
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	9
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
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
An Analysis of Writer’s Block: Causes and Solutions	8
Creativity, Mating, and Reproductive Successes Outside the WEIRD World	8
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
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
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
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
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
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