OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Creativity Research Journal is 3. 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
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	72
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	60
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	58
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	36
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	34
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	32
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	32
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	27
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	25
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	24
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	23
The Process Definition of Creativity	23
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	21
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	21
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	20
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	20
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	20
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	19
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	19
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	18
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	18
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	18
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	17
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	17
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	16

Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	16
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index	16
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	15
An Analysis of Writer’s Block: Causes and Solutions	15
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood	15
Culture, Executive Thinking Style, and Knowledge Fixation in the Development of Creativity in Hong Kong	14
The Development of Divergent Thinking in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children	13
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study	12
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity	12
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians	12
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study	12
Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking	12
The Micro-genesis of Improvisational Co-creation	11
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	11
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation	11
Brain Network Associated with Three Types of Remote Associations: Graph Theory Analysis	11
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices	11
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study	11
The One-I Model of Creativity: A Commentary on Green et al. (2024)	11
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	10
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	10
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory	10
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	9
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children	9
Creative Empathy	8
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking	8
Can Viewing Films Promote Creative Thinking Styles? Examining The Complex Roles of Personality and Meaning-Making	8
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	8
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements	7
Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation	7
Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments	7
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	7
Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reveals Differences in Large-Scale Network Interactions Between Eminent and Non-Eminent Thinkers	7
Target Personification Influences the Positive Emotional Link Between Generating and Implementing Malevolently Creative Ideas	7
How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity?	7
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity	7
Individualism and Collectivism as Predictors of Creative Potentials and Real-Life Creativity in China and US	7
Digital Games for Creativity Assessment: Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities	7
Minority Dissent, Openness to Change and Group Creativity	6
Building More Accurate Shared Leadership Theory: The Double Threshold Effect of Shared Leadership on Multilevel Creativity	6
The Effect of Experimental Manipulation of Self-Objectification on Creative Potential in Adolescents	6
Validation and Use of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) Instrument for Secondary School Students	6
Creative Adaptability: A Measurable Personal Resource	6
The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Creative Cognition: A Systematic Review of Experiment-Based Research	6
Fit-For-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic Scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP)	5
Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking	5
Comparing Expert, Quasi-Expert, and Novice Evaluations of Award-Winning Design Products Using the Consensual Assessment Technique	5
Associations Between Brain Functional Network Characteristics and Musical Creative Achievement	5
Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity	5
Is Curiosity Killed by the CAT? A Divergent, Open-Ended, and Generative (DOG) Approach to Creativity Assessment	5

The Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity	5
Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?	5
Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas	5
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	5
Unconscious Work Doesn’t Work	5
Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism	5
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions	5
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value	5
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	5
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness	5
Creativity in Emergency Settings	5
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements	4
Generation of Novel Ideas: Creativity in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Older Adults	4
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	4
Psychometrics of Art – Validation of RizbA, a Quantitative Rating Instrument for Pictorial Expression	4
Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creativity – a Neurophysiological Index for the Convergence-Divergence Continuum	4
Context Connection: A Product Creative Design Method for Integrating Design Materials and Design Resources	4
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers	4
Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity: Empathy and Sensory Sensitivities in Children Predict Creative Activities and Openness	4
Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?	4
Are Creativity Tests Vulnerable to Coaching?	4
Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity	4
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	4
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”	4
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	4
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education	4
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	4
Perspective-Taking Feedback: A New Feedback Affecting Creativity	3
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve: A New Generation of Rising Stars, a New Special Issue	3
Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences	3
Managing Your Muse: Exploring Three Levels of Metacognitive Control in Creative Ideation	3
Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects	3
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review	3
Do Creativity Metrics from Design Research Correlate with Those from Psychology?	3
Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities	3
East-West Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Research Impact	3
Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity	3
Virtual Creativity – Bibliometric Literature Review on Measurements and Factors That Influence Creative Virtual Teamwork	3
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research	3
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	3
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms	3
How to Translate Creative Ideas into Innovation?Differential Resources for Proactive and Responsive Team Idea Generation	3
Creativity and Attention Control: An Individual Difference Approach	3
Evaluating Drawings’ Creativity: Synchrony Effects on Rater Bias and the Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal	3
Individual Differences in Parietal and Premotor Activity During Spatial Cognition Predict Figural Creativity	3
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	3