OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Creativity Research Journal is 18. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	104
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	95
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	69
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	56
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	52
Cathodal Stimulation on Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Restructuring Process Underlying Insight Problem Solving	42
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	39
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	38
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	33
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	33
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	31
The Process Definition of Creativity	30
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	28
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	27
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	25
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	25
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	22
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	20
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	18
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	18