OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 35. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	106
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	90
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	69
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	66
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	66
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	64
Musical thinking problems	63
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	63
RETRACTED: Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation	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	59
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	56
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	56
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	55
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	53
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	50
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	49
Are online games a blessing or evil? The moderating role of self-worth	48
Toward a system model of improvisation	47
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	45
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	41
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	41
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	41
Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom	40
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	40
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	39

RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	39
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	38
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	38
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	37
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	37
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method	37
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	37
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability	36
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students	36
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self	36
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices	35