OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	51
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	49
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	48
Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence	32
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	27
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	26
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	25
A Behavioural Measure of Imagination Based on Conceptual Combination Theory	25
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	24
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	22
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	22
The Process Definition of Creativity	19
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	19
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	19
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	18
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	18
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	18
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	18
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	18
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	16
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	16
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	16
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	15
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	15
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	15

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

Associations Between Brain Functional Network Characteristics and Musical Creative Achievement	5
Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism	5
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	5
Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity	5
The Construct Validity of Creativity: Empirical Arguments in Favor of Novelty as the Basis for Creativity	5
Music Expertise and Gender Differences in Verbal and Visual Divergent Thinking. A Behavioral Study	5
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements	4
Comparing Expert, Quasi-Expert, and Novice Evaluations of Award-Winning Design Products Using the Consensual Assessment Technique	4
Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity: Empathy and Sensory Sensitivities in Children Predict Creative Activities and Openness	4
Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creativity – a Neurophysiological Index for the Convergence-Divergence Continuum	4
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	4
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value	4
Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas	4
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	4
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”	4
Generation of Novel Ideas: Creativity in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Older Adults	4
Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?	4
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions	4
Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice Designers	4
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	4
Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity	3
Creative Potential is Differentially Expressed in School, at Home, and the Natural Environment	3
East-West Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Research Impact	3
Psychometrics of Art – Validation of RizbA, a Quantitative Rating Instrument for Pictorial Expression	3
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research	3
How Can Creative Ideas Be Implemented?The Roles of Leader Performance-Prove Goal Orientation and Boundary-Spanning Strategy	3
Managing Your Muse: Exploring Three Levels of Metacognitive Control in Creative Ideation	3
Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity	3
Are Creativity Tests Vulnerable to Coaching?	3
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for Reliable Automated Assessment of Originality	3
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve: A New Generation of Rising Stars, a New Special Issue	3
How to Translate Creative Ideas into Innovation?Differential Resources for Proactive and Responsive Team Idea Generation	3
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	3
Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects	3
Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences	3
Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?	3
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education	3
Context Connection: A Product Creative Design Method for Integrating Design Materials and Design Resources	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
Perspective-Taking Feedback: A New Feedback Affecting Creativity	3
Virtual Creativity – Bibliometric Literature Review on Measurements and Factors That Influence Creative Virtual Teamwork	3
Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities	3
The Impact of Adding a Fourth Item to the Traditional 3-Item Remote Associates Test	2
The Ties That Bind: Low Morals, High Deception, and Dark Creativity	2
The CollaboUse Test for Automated Creativity Measurement in Individuals and Teams: A Construct Validation Study	2
A Study on Developing Creative Thinking Skills in Students with Intellectual Disabilities Using Creative Drama	2
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms	2
The Impact of Visual Art-Based Educational Interventions on Creativity: Α Meta-Analysis	2
Do Creativity Metrics from Design Research Correlate with Those from Psychology?	2
Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI	2
Comment on “The Process Definition of Creativity” by Green, Beaty, Kenett, and Kaufman	2
Two Kinds of Visual Art Prodigies: Characteristics and Future Trajectories	2
Neural Representations of Conceptual Fixation during Creative Imagination	2
AI’s Influence on Human Creative Agency	2
Creativity as It Unfolds: An Examination of Temporality in the Creative Process	2
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review	2
Creativity on Tap? The Effect of Creativity Anxiety Under Evaluative Pressure	2
Active procrastination incubates more creative thinking: The sequential mediating effect of personal mastery and creative self-concept	2
Beyond Openness: A Variety of Creative Experiences Increases Flexibility and Originality of Visuospatial Divergent Thinking	2
Conceptual and Measurement Specificity are Key: The Case of Creativity and Emotions	2
Effective Strategies for Creative Idea Evaluation and Feedback: The customer’s always right	2
Creativity Studies Within the European Union: A Bibliometric Analysis	2
Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period	2
Individual Differences in Parietal and Premotor Activity During Spatial Cognition Predict Figural Creativity	2
Testing Computational Assessment of Idea Novelty in Crowdsourcing	2
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	2
Evidence for an Asymmetric Switch Cost in State Creativity	2