Creativity Research Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of Creativity Research Journal is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self131
Investigating the Validity Evidence of Automated Scoring Methods for Divergent Thinking Assessments130
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought76
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function70
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking52
Cathodal Stimulation on Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Restructuring Process Underlying Insight Problem Solving49
Non-Linear Relationships Between Creativity Ratings of Musical Improvisations and Melodic Complexity46
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment40
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models39
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect38
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience38
The Process Definition of Creativity28
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity28
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst25
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis23
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks22
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique19
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement19
Are Individual-Level Factors Necessary for Creativity in the Workplace? A Necessary Condition Analysis19
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists18
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?18
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains16
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach16
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity16
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags15
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”15
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction15
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape15
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians14
The Development of Divergent Thinking in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children14
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index14
Second-Order Meta-Analysis of the Creativity Research13
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood12
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation12
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking12
Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking12
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study11
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking11
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study11
The One-I Model of Creativity: A Commentary on Green et al. (2024)11
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity11
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory10
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas10
Creative Empathy10
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children10
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices10
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity10
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing10
Can Viewing Films Promote Creative Thinking Styles? Examining The Complex Roles of Personality and Meaning-Making10
Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation9
Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reveals Differences in Large-Scale Network Interactions Between Eminent and Non-Eminent Thinkers9
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity9
Peering Through the Kaleidoscope: A Systematic Review of Creativity Assessments Within PK-12 Settings9
Can There Be Another Einstein?9
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements9
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas9
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI9
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking9
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