OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 35. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	118
Retraction notice to ``Interdisciplinary approaches to arts education: Exploring the link between creative thinking and mastering exact sciences'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2	103
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	75
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	72
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	71
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	69
Musical thinking problems	68
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	64
Editorial Board	61
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	60
What does Creativity look like in Preschool? A Multi-Method Examination of Unity and Diversity in Preschoolers’ Creativity	59
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	57
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	53
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	52
Emotion and cognition are two wings of the same bird: Insights into academic emotion regulation, critical thinking, self-efficacy beliefs, academic resilience, and academic engagement in Iranian EFL c	51
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	50
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	49
Retraction notice to “The role of creative musical activity in learning foreign languagesThe role of creative musical activity in learning foreign languages” [ Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41	46
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	46
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	44
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	43
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	42
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	42
Toward a system model of improvisation	42
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	41

Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	40
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	40
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	39
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	39
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers	38
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self	38
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review	37
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research	37
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review	36
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method	36
Editorial Board	35
Retraction notice to ``The role of innovative approaches in teaching the flute: A path to creative realization of students'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2021, 100959]	35