OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 29. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Theoretical foundations of design thinking – A constructivism learning approach to design thinking	98
Applying digital escape rooms infused with science teaching in elementary school: Learning performance, learning motivation, and problem-solving ability	70
Critical, Reflective, Creative Thinking and Their Reflections on Academic Achievement	69
Developing critical thinking, collective creativity skills and problem solving through playful design jams	57
Mindfulness and creativity: Implications for thinking and learning	57
Technology-enhanced creativity: A multiple case study of digital technology-integration expert teachers’ beliefs and practices	53
Perceived teacher support and creative self-efficacy: The mediating roles of autonomous motivation and achievement emotions in Chinese junior high school students	50
From knowledge and skills to digital works: An application of design thinking in the information technology course	49
Digital storytelling in teacher education and its effect on the digital literacy of pre-service teachers	47
Effects of creative thinking, psychomotor skills, and creative self-efficacy on engineering design creativity	45
Wellbeing and flow in sports and music students during the COVID-19 pandemic	42
The effect of mind mapping on young children’s critical thinking skills	40
Effects of problem-based learning instructional intervention on critical thinking in higher education: A meta-analysis	40
Mindfulness and happiness and their impact on employee creative performance: Mediating role of creative process engagement	39
Teaching critical thinking through engagement with multiplicity	37
Promoting children’s creative thinking through reading and writing in a cooperative learning classroom	36
Improving 7th-graders’ computational thinking skills through unplugged programming activities: A study on the influence of multiple factors	36
“Scratch”-ing computational thinking with Arduino: A meta-analysis	35
Effects of divergent thinking training on students’ scientific creativity: The impact of individual creative potential and domain knowledge	35
A brainstorming flipped classroom approach for improving students’ learning performance, motivation, teacher-student interaction and creativity in a civics education class	34
The landscape of research on the use of digital game-based learning apps to nurture creativity among young children: A review	34
A cultural perspective to project-based learning and the cultivation of innovative thinking	33
Integrating critical thinking into the classroom: A teacher’s perspective	33
How adolescents develop and implement their ideas? On self-regulation of creative action	31
Critical thinking in practice: The priorities and practices of instructors teaching in higher education	30

Do parenting styles matter? Perceived dimensions of parenting styles, creative abilities and creative self-beliefs in adolescents	30
The Effect of STEM Activities Prepared According to the Design Thinking Model on Preschool Children's Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills	29
Computational thinking skills of gifted and talented students in integrated STEM activities based on the engineering design process: The case of robotics and 3D robot modeling	29
The effect of robotic coding education on preschoolers’ problem solving and creative thinking skills	29
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	29