OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 37. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	112
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	98
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	70
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	68
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	67
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	67
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	66
Musical thinking problems	64
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	63
RETRACTED: Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation	61
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	60
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	57
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	56
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	56
Toward a system model of improvisation	50
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	49
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	48
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	48
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	47
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	46
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	46
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	44
Are online games a blessing or evil? The moderating role of self-worth	44
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	42
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	41

RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	40
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	40
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	40
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	40
Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom	40
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	40
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method	39
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	39
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices	38
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self	38
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students	38
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students	37
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation	37