OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 33. 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
Editorial Board	90
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	77
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	62
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	60
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	59
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	57
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	53
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	53
Musical thinking problems	52
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	51
RETRACTED: Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation	50
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	49
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	49
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	48
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	48
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	45
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	45
Toward a system model of improvisation	45
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	45
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	45
Are online games a blessing or evil? The moderating role of self-worth	40
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	38
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	38
The relationship between the mathematical reasoning skills and video game addiction of Turkish middle schools students: A serial mediator model	37
Effects of cloud-based learning on student’s engineering design creativity with different creative self-efficacy	37

Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	36
Intentional questioning to promote thinking and learning	35
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	35
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	33
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	33
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	33
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	33
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers	33
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	33
Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom	33