OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 37. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	119
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	105
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	80
Editorial Board	75
Musical thinking problems	74
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	73
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	68
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	68
Retraction notice to ``Interdisciplinary approaches to arts education: Exploring the link between creative thinking and mastering exact sciences'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2	65
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	64
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	64
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	59
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	59
Retraction notice to “The role of creative musical activity in learning foreign languagesThe role of creative musical activity in learning foreign languages” [ Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41	57
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	53
Toward a system model of improvisation	52
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	49
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	48
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	47
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	47
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	46
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	45
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	45
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	44
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	43

Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	42
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	42
Fostering Thinking Skills: Transitioning from Routine to Creative Design Spaces	42
Emotion and cognition are two wings of the same bird: Insights into academic emotion regulation, critical thinking, self-efficacy beliefs, academic resilience, and academic engagement in Iranian EFL c	41
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability	41
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students	39
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus	39
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students	39
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation	38
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners	38
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience	37
Editorial Board	37
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research	37
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review	37