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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Musical thinking problems	163
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	159
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	119
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	104
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	100
Development of preservice teachers’ inquiry thinking skills: Unpacking the processes and challenges	96
Origami-based collaborative spatial problem-solving: Multimodal observational study	95
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	93
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	93
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	91
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	90
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	78
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	78
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	68
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	63
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	62
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	61
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	59
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	58
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	57
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	54
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	53
Fostering thinking skills: Transitioning from routine to creative design spaces	52
Design knowledge scaffolds to facilitate students’ probabilistic thinking skills for solving classical probability problems: An exploratory study	52
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	51

What does creativity look like in preschool? A multi-method examination of unity and diversity in preschoolers’ creativity	51
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	50
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
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	49
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices	48
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items	46
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students	46
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers	45
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools	45
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review	44
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices	44
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students	44
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers	44
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners	44
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students	44
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students	43
Can creative musical and mathematical thinking be developed among first and second graders?	43