OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Creativity Research Journal is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function	162
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	142
Does Pretend Play Predict Later Creativity Development? Exploring Creative Trajectories from Pre-Kindergarten Through First Grade	102
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking	90
Schizotypy and Creativity: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control, and the Spontaneous Flow of Thought	64
Investigating the Validity Evidence of Automated Scoring Methods for Divergent Thinking Assessments	58
Cathodal Stimulation on Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Restructuring Process Underlying Insight Problem Solving	51
Measuring Creative Ideation: Chinese Validation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	49
Non-Linear Relationships Between Creativity Ratings of Musical Improvisations and Melodic Complexity	43
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	43
The Pathology of Imagination: Picturing the Worst	41
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	31
When Do Ruminations About Life-Threatening Crises Threaten Creativity? The Critical Role of Resilience	30
The Mr. Plumbean Approach: How Focusing Constraints Anchor Creativity	25
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect	23
The Process Definition of Creativity	22
Creativity and Resilience: Creativity From, or Through Adversity?	21
Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique	21
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	21
Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis	19
Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists	19
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	19
Are Individual-Level Factors Necessary for Creativity in the Workplace? A Necessary Condition Analysis	18
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	17
Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving: A Dynamic Modeling Approach	16

Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	16
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	16
Second-Order Meta-Analysis of the Creativity Research	15
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	15
The Development of Divergent Thinking in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children	15
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	15
Examining Teachers’ Perspectives of School-Based Opportunities and Support for Student Creativity with the ICI Index	15
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	15
The Ecology of Creative Engagement: Patterns of Production, Consumption, and Practice	15
The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians	14
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking	14
Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking	14
Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study	14
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood	14
Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking	14
Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity	13
Imagination as a Facet of Openness/Intellect: A New Scale Differentiating Experiential Simulation and Conceptual Innovation	13
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children	12
The One-I Model of Creativity: A Commentary on Green et al. (2024)	12
A Study on Psychometric Properties of Creativity Indices	11
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	11
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	11
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	10
Can Viewing Films Promote Creative Thinking Styles? Examining The Complex Roles of Personality and Meaning-Making	10
Broadening Perspective on Creative Personality: Surface and Core Characteristics as Predictors of Creative Achievements	10
Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reveals Differences in Large-Scale Network Interactions Between Eminent and Non-Eminent Thinkers	10
Taking Inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the CBI	10
Creative Empathy	10
Validation of Arabic Version of Runco Ideational Behavior Scale	10
Shining a Light on Dark Creativity	10
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory	10
Can There Be Another Einstein?	10
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking	10
Peering Through the Kaleidoscope: A Systematic Review of Creativity Assessments Within PK-12 Settings	9
Individualism and Collectivism as Predictors of Creative Potentials and Real-Life Creativity in China and US	9
Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments	9
How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity?	9
Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation	9
Creative Adaptability: A Measurable Personal Resource	8
The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Creative Cognition: A Systematic Review of Experiment-Based Research	8
Agency in Human-AI Collaboration for Image Generation and Creative Writing: Preliminary Insights from Think-Aloud Protocols	8
Think Outside and Inside the Box:The Role of Dual-Pathway Divergent Thinking in Creative Idea Generation	8
Cognitive Fixation Mechanisms and Creativity: An Integrative Review	8
Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness	8
Validation and Use of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) Instrument for Secondary School Students	8
Building More Accurate Shared Leadership Theory: The Double Threshold Effect of Shared Leadership on Multilevel Creativity	8
Is Curiosity Killed by the CAT? A Divergent, Open-Ended, and Generative (DOG) Approach to Creativity Assessment	7
Unconscious Work Doesn’t Work	7
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements	7
A Rubric-Guided Multimodal Approach Using High-Capacity LLMs Provides Psychometrically Sound Creativity Assessment in Learning Games	7

Creativity in Emergency Settings	7
Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity	7
Self-Regulation of Creativity: Toward Measuring Strategies of Creative Action	7
Does creative coursework predict educational, career, and community engagement outcomes for arts alumni?	7
Entrepreneurs’ Personal Values and the Innovative Behavior of Their Employees: A Cross-Level Mechanism	7
Fit-For-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic Scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP)	7
Within-Team Individual Power and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Democratic Team Leadership and Collectivistic Value	7
Associations Between Brain Functional Network Characteristics and Musical Creative Achievement	7
Are Creativity Tests Vulnerable to Coaching?	6
Generation of Novel Ideas: Creativity in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Older Adults	6
Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas	6
Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?	6
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”	6
The Evaluation and Selection of Creative Ideas in Educational Settings: Current Knowledge and Future Directions	6
Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking	6
The Contribution of Openness and Intellect to the Examination of the Idea Generation and Selection Processes: An Exploration with Business Students	6
Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity: Empathy and Sensory Sensitivities in Children Predict Creative Activities and Openness	6
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail	6
Comparing Expert, Quasi-Expert, and Novice Evaluations of Award-Winning Design Products Using the Consensual Assessment Technique	6
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve: A New Generation of Rising Stars, a New Special Issue	5
Developmental Dynamics of Children’s Creative Thinking Following Knowledge-Structure Interventions: Longitudinal Evidence from Semantic Network Analysis	5
Creativity and Attention Control: An Individual Difference Approach	5
Managing Your Muse: Exploring Three Levels of Metacognitive Control in Creative Ideation	5
Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education	5
Evaluating Drawings’ Creativity: Synchrony Effects on Rater Bias and the Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal	5
Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creativity – a Neurophysiological Index for the Convergence-Divergence Continuum	5
Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences	5
Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity	5
East-West Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Research Impact	5
Context Connection: A Product Creative Design Method for Integrating Design Materials and Design Resources	5
Virtual Creativity – Bibliometric Literature Review on Measurements and Factors That Influence Creative Virtual Teamwork	5
Incremental and radical creativity in dealing with a crisis at work	4
Where Divergent Ideas Converge: Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms	4
The Impact of Visual Art-Based Educational Interventions on Creativity: Α Meta-Analysis	4
Creative Opportunities at Work. A New Concept and Its Relevance for Employee Creativity and Well-Being	4
Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects	4
Two Kinds of Visual Art Prodigies: Characteristics and Future Trajectories	4
Testing Computational Assessment of Idea Novelty in Crowdsourcing	4
Exploring Creative Inflection Points: A Comparative Study of Human and GenAI Design Task Performance	4
The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity	4
Personhood, QOL, and Well-being in People with Dementia undergoing Creative Arts-based Therapies: A Scoping Review	4
A Quandary in Creativity Studies: Conflicting Theoretical Views from In Vivo versus In Vitro Research	4
Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities	4