Creativity Research Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Creativity Research Journal is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Narcissism Mediates the Relationship Between Helicopter Parenting and Divergent Creativity, but Not Convergent Creativity44
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness41
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study39
High Artistic Achievements and Low Emotion Dysregulation: The Moderating and Mediating Role of Self-compassion29
Automated Creativity Prediction Using Natural Language Processing and Resting-State Functional Connectivity: An fNIRS Study21
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research20
Serendipity: The Role of Chance and Accidents in Creativity19
Divergent but not Convergent Thinking Mediates the Trait Emotional Intelligence-Real-World Creativity Link: An Empirical Study18
Enhancement of Divergent Creative Thinking After Transcranial Near-Infrared Photobiomodulation Over the Default Mode Network18
Evaluation of Creativity in Contemporary Dance in Terms of Audience Perception18
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation17
Fostering Creative Agency through Screenwriting: An Intervention17
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review17
Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects15
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study15
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity15
Perspective-Taking Feedback: A New Feedback Affecting Creativity14
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function14
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work14
Building More Accurate Shared Leadership Theory: The Double Threshold Effect of Shared Leadership on Multilevel Creativity13
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking13
Brain Network Associated with Three Types of Remote Associations: Graph Theory Analysis13
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale12
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self12
Validation and Use of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) Instrument for Secondary School Students12
A Contribution to Scientific Creativity: A Validation Study Measuring Divergent Problem Solving Ability11
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought11
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking11
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire11
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation10
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence10
The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Creative Cognition: A Systematic Review of Experiment-Based Research10
Speaking to your Inner Muse: How Self-Regulation by Inner Speaking influences Confidence during Idea Evaluation10
A Study on Developing Creative Thinking Skills in Students with Intellectual Disabilities Using Creative Drama10
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity10
The Advantage of Disadvantage: Is ADHD Associated with Idea Generation at Work?9
Identifying Creative Potential in Students: Addressing Misconceptions, Inclusivity, and Technological Advancements9
Investigating the Influence of Social Media on Employee Creativity: A Perspective from Social Network Ties9
Sources of Inspiration in Contemporary Vanguard Music Composers9
The Relationship between Leaders’ Long-Term Orientation and Employees’ Innovative Behaviors8
Two Kinds of Visual Art Prodigies: Characteristics and Future Trajectories8
The Short Inventory of Creative Activities (S-ICA): Compiling a Short Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization8
Planning Missing Data Designs for Human Ratings in Creativity Research: A Practical Guide8
Can Sitting Postures Influence the Creative Mind? Positive Effect of Contractive Posture on Convergent-Integrative Thinking7
My Creative World (MCW) : Improving Creative Thinking in Elementary School-Aged Children7
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms7
Unconscious Work Doesn’t Work7
Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism6
The Impact of Visual Art-Based Educational Interventions on Creativity: Α Meta-Analysis6
Testing Computational Assessment of Idea Novelty in Crowdsourcing6
Recent Trends in Creativity Research: An Analysis of Keywords in Four Prominent Creativity Journals6
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment6
Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity6
Creativity as It Unfolds: An Examination of Temporality in the Creative Process6
Opening the closed mind? Effects of reading literary fiction on need for closure and creativity5
Inclusive Leadership and Creative Teaching: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing and Innovative Climate5
Individual Differences in Parietal and Premotor Activity During Spatial Cognition Predict Figural Creativity5
Do Creativity Metrics from Design Research Correlate with Those from Psychology?5
Creativity Studies Within the European Union: A Bibliometric Analysis5
QEOSA: Testing a Pedagogical Model of Creative Problem Solving for Preschool Children5
Is Curiosity Killed by the CAT? A Divergent, Open-Ended, and Generative (DOG) Approach to Creativity Assessment5
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period5
AI’s Influence on Human Creative Agency5
The Micro-genesis of Improvisational Co-creation5
A Personal Perspective on Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts: Ecologically Valid, Interdisciplinary, and Diverse Methodologies5
Emotional Reactions to Idea Evaluation: Creative Perseverance and Evaluating Others4
Creativity on Tap? The Effect of Creativity Anxiety Under Evaluative Pressure4
Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI4
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements4
An Exploration of the Intersection Between Creativity and Psychotherapy4
Fit-For-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic Scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP)4
Creativity in Emergency Settings4
Conceptual Design of a Creative Artificial Intelligence System Based on the Neurocognitive Bases of Human Creativity in the Brain4
Music Expertise and Gender Differences in Verbal and Visual Divergent Thinking. A Behavioral Study4
Creative Minds at Rest: Creative Individuals are More Associative and Engaged with Their Idle Thoughts4
The Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity4
Comparing Expert, Quasi-Expert, and Novice Evaluations of Award-Winning Design Products Using the Consensual Assessment Technique4
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers4
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices3
Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?3
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action3
The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals3
A Note from the Incoming Editor3
Idea Evaluation and Creativity: Toward a Process-Specific Nomological Network3
Generation of Novel Ideas: Creativity in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Older Adults3
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience3
Effective Strategies for Creative Idea Evaluation and Feedback: The customer’s always right3
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children3
A Behavioural Measure of Imagination Based on Conceptual Combination Theory3
The Effects of Environmental Scene and Body Posture on Embodied Strategies in Creative Thinking3
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst3
The Receptive Brain: Up-Regulated Right Temporal Alpha Oscillation Boosting Aha!3
Neural Representations of Conceptual Fixation during Creative Imagination3
Associations Between Brain Functional Network Characteristics and Musical Creative Achievement3
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas3
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity3
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity2
Correction2
Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale: Relationship to Occupation and Measurement Invariance across Gender2
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value2
The Process Definition of Creativity2
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models2
Psychometrics of Art – Validation of RizbA, a Quantitative Rating Instrument for Pictorial Expression2
Creativity Assessment, Research, and Practice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence2
Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas2
Assessing the Robustness of the Factor Structure of TTCT-Figural: A Meta-CFA Replication-Extension2
The Ties That Bind: Low Morals, High Deception, and Dark Creativity2
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing2
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity2
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI2
“My Brain Said That … ”: A Qualitative Study of Sources of Children’s Creative Ideas2
Response Inhibition Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Emotional States and Creative Divergent Thinking2
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory2
Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking2
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions2
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail2
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education2
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique2
A Computational Interrogation of “Big-C” and “Little-c” Creativity2
Conceptual and Measurement Specificity are Key: The Case of Creativity and Emotions2
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