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Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Creativity in Education and Neuroscience is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics related to creativity, including cognitive processes, neuroscience, psychology, education, problem solving, personality traits, cultural influence, and brain activity. The papers explore the nature of creativity, its relationship to intelligence and personality, the impact of cultural experiences on creativity, and the cognitive processes underlying creative thinking.

  • Creativity
  • Innovation
  • Cognitive Processes
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Education
  • Problem Solving
  • Personality Traits
  • Cultural Influence
  • Brain Activity
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Which countries lead Creativity in Education and Neuroscience research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 1k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 448 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 333 works
  5. 5 Germany 283 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 236 works
  7. 7 Australia 221 works
  8. 8 India 215 works
  9. 9 Spain 201 works
  10. 10 Brazil 195 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 29.7%China: 23.1%United Kingdom: 9.9%Indonesia: 7.4%6 others listed: 29.9%30%largest
United States1,343 · 29.7%China1,044 · 23.1%United Kingdom448 · 9.9%Indonesia333 · 7.4%6 others listed1,352 · 29.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Creativity in Education and Neuroscience research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Creativity in Education and Neuroscience research, followed by Beijing Normal University and Pennsylvania State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 43 works
  2. 2 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 36 works
  3. 3 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 26 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 22 works
  7. 7 Education University of Hong KongChina 21 works
  8. 8 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 20 works
  9. 9 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 20 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Creativity in Education and Neuroscience?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Creativity in Education and Neuroscience include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k citations
  7. 7 Bruce Leonard Miller United States 196k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Creativity in Education and Neuroscience?

The most cited paper in Creativity in Education and Neuroscience is "Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency." (Albert Bandura, 1982), with 15,425 citations. Next come "The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance." (9,052) and "Motivational Beliefs, Values, and Goals" (7,477).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. Albert Bandura · American Psychologist Feb 1982 15,425
2 The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf T. Krampe, Clemens Tesch‐Römer · Psychological Review Jul 1993 9,052
3 Motivational Beliefs, Values, and Goals Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Allan Wigfield · Annual Review of Psychology Review Feb 2002 7,477
4 ASSESSING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT FOR CREATIVITY. Teresa M. Amabile, Riccardo Conti, Heather M. Coon et al. · Academy of Management Journal Oct 1996 5,598
5 Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: An integrative review. Colin M. MacLeod · Psychological Bulletin Open access 1991 5,570
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Where is Creativity in Education and Neuroscience research done?

The largest centres of Creativity in Education and Neuroscience research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po and Aalborg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 165 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 122 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 80 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 67 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 64 works
  6. 6 TaipeiTaiwan 59 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 58 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 58 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 57 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 56 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 20.7 works17×
  2. AalborgDK · 26.6 works6.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Creativity in Education and Neuroscience than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Creativity in Education and Neuroscience?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and University of Graz score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 24.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Technion – Israel In…Education University…University of GrazBeijing Normal Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Education University of Hong KongChina 67.927.6%20.9×20 +131.1%
2Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael 65.843.7%4.0×10 +81.4%
3University of GrazAustria 65.518.7%13.4×16 +49.8%
4Beijing Normal UniversityChina 64.413.9%6.7×36 +212.7%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.021.0%1.8×19 +42.6%
6University of WrocławPoland 54.328.6%8.1×11 +10.5%
7Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 54.021.1%2.3×14 +39.2%
8East China Normal UniversityChina 53.624.6%5.2×17 -3.0%
9University of South AustraliaAustralia 53.420.6%9.9×15 +47.1%
10Chinese University of Hong KongChina 53.228.0%2.1×10 +41.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, country by country

Is Creativity in Education and Neuroscience research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Creativity in Education and Neuroscience.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Creativity in Education and Neuroscience as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Creativity in Education and Neuroscience over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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