OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Creativity Research Journal is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	45
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	45
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	31
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	25
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	24
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	23
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	21
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	19
A Behavioural Measure of Imagination Based on Conceptual Combination Theory	19
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	19
The Process Definition of Creativity	18
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	18
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	18
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	17
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	17
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	17
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	16
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	15
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	15
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	15
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	15
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	14
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	14
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	14

Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	13
The Development of Divergent Thinking in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children	13
Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking	13
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood	12
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians	12
Culture, Executive Thinking Style, and Knowledge Fixation in the Development of Creativity in Hong Kong	11
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	11
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study	10
An Analysis of Writer’s Block: Causes and Solutions	10
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study	10
Brain Network Associated with Three Types of Remote Associations: Graph Theory Analysis	10
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity	10
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index	10
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	9
The Micro-genesis of Improvisational Co-creation	9
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation	9
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study	9
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	8
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices	8
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children	8
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	7
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	7
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	7
Can Viewing Films Promote Creative Thinking Styles? Examining The Complex Roles of Personality and Meaning-Making	7
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory	7
Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation	6
Creative Empathy	6
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking	6
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas	6
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity	6
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	6
Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reveals Differences in Large-Scale Network Interactions Between Eminent and Non-Eminent Thinkers	6
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements	6
Individualism and Collectivism as Predictors of Creative Potentials and Real-Life Creativity in China and US	6