OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Creativity Research Journal is 7. 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
The Patient is Thriving! Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment	32
Scaling the Creative Self: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self	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
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models	21
A Call to More Imaginative Research into Creative Achievement	21
Empirics vs. art theory: Exploring a factor structure of pictorial expression based on contemporary artworks	20
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
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
Developing Musical Creativity Through Movement: Navigating the Musical Affordance Landscape	18
On the Generalizability of the Bodily State Effect on Creativity	18
#creativity: Exploring Lay Conceptualizations of Creativity with Twitter Hashtags	18
Conflicting Problem Representations and Creativity: Effects on Problem Construction	17
Gender Biases in Attributions of Creativity Across Domains	17
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
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue “Advances in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity”	16
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood	15
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
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
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
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
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
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
Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory	10
Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing	10
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity	10
Creative Thinking Skills and Executive Functions in Preadolescent Children	9
Analogy and the Generation of Ideas	9
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
Creative Empathy	8
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
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