OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 30. 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
Technology-enhanced creativity: A multiple case study of digital technology-integration expert teachers’ beliefs and practices	67
Perceived teacher support and creative self-efficacy: The mediating roles of autonomous motivation and achievement emotions in Chinese junior high school students	59
Digital storytelling in teacher education and its effect on the digital literacy of pre-service teachers	58
Effects of problem-based learning instructional intervention on critical thinking in higher education: A meta-analysis	58
The effect of mind mapping on young children’s critical thinking skills	54
Improving 7th-graders’ computational thinking skills through unplugged programming activities: A study on the influence of multiple factors	47
Mindfulness and happiness and their impact on employee creative performance: Mediating role of creative process engagement	46
Wellbeing and flow in sports and music students during the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models	43
A brainstorming flipped classroom approach for improving students’ learning performance, motivation, teacher-student interaction and creativity in a civics education class	42
How adolescents develop and implement their ideas? On self-regulation of creative action	39
A cultural perspective to project-based learning and the cultivation of innovative thinking	39
“Scratch”-ing computational thinking with Arduino: A meta-analysis	38
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach	37
The Effect of STEM Activities Prepared According to the Design Thinking Model on Preschool Children's Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills	37
Exploring the relationship between creative thinking and scientific process skills of preschool children	36
Critical thinking in practice: The priorities and practices of instructors teaching in higher education	36
The effect of robotic coding education on preschoolers’ problem solving and creative thinking skills	36
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	34
Exploring the relationships between cognitive flexibility, learner autonomy, and reflective thinking	33
Improving self-efficacy and creative self-efficacy to foster creativity and learning in schools	33
Do parenting styles matter? Perceived dimensions of parenting styles, creative abilities and creative self-beliefs in adolescents	33
Fostering creativity as a problem-solving competence through design: Think-Create-Learn, a tool for teachers	32
Fostering critical thinking in English-as-a-second-language classrooms: Challenges and opportunities	32
The effect of robotics on six graders’ academic achievement, computational thinking skills and conceptual knowledge levels	32

Computational thinking skills of gifted and talented students in integrated STEM activities based on the engineering design process: The case of robotics and 3D robot modeling	32
The mediating role of critical thinking and cooperativity in the 21st century skills of higher education students	32
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education	32
Critical thinking in the preschool classroom - A systematic literature review	31
Learning to think together: Creativity, interdisciplinary collaboration and epistemic control	30
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review	30