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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	96
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	79
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	64
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	64
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	62
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	60
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	58
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	58
Are online games a blessing or evil? The moderating role of self-worth	54
Musical thinking problems	54
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	53
RETRACTED: Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation	52
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	51
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	51
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	49
Toward a system model of improvisation	47
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	46
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	46
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	45
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	41
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	40
Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom	39
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	38
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	38
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	37

Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	37
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	37
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	37
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	36
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	36
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	34
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items	34
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools	34
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method	33
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability	33
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students	33