OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 42. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Musical thinking problems	183
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	168
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	130
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	115
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	110
Origami-based collaborative spatial problem-solving: Multimodal observational study	105
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	101
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	99
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	86
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
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	75
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	75
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	71
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	68
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	66
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	66
Fostering thinking skills: Transitioning from routine to creative design spaces	61
Design knowledge scaffolds to facilitate students’ probabilistic thinking skills for solving classical probability problems: An exploratory study	59
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	57
What does creativity look like in preschool? A multi-method examination of unity and diversity in preschoolers’ creativity	55
Development of preservice teachers’ inquiry thinking skills: Unpacking the processes and challenges	55
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	53
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	53
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	51
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	51

Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	51
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	50
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	50
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students	49
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices	49
Can creative musical and mathematical thinking be developed among first and second graders?	49
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	49
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items	49
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation	48
From algorithms to artistry: Promoting high school students’ creativity through interdisciplinary integration of creative coding and smart design	47
Song dedication as creative gift practice: Toward a framework for dedication education	47
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus	46
Retraction notice to ``The role of innovative approaches in teaching the flute: A path to creative realization of students'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2021, 100959]	46
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners	45
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers	44
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self	42
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices	42