About this journal
Aims and scope
Creativity Research Journal publishes high-quality, scholarly research capturing the full range of approaches to the study of creativity--behavioral, clinical, cognitive, crosscultural, developmental, educational, genetic, organizational, psychoanalytic, psychometrics, and social. Interdisciplinary research is also published, as is research within specific domains (e.g., art, science) and research on critical issues (e.g., aesthetics, genius, imagery, imagination, incubation, insight, intuition, metaphor, play, problem finding and solving). Integrative literature reviews and theoretical pieces that appreciate empirical work are extremely welcome, but purely speculative articles are not published. Readers are encouraged to send commentaries, comments, and evaluative book reviews.
Peer Review Policy: All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening, single- and or double-anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees, and consequent revision by article authors when required.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Readership:
Behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychologists, and others interested in the study of creativity.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 250K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.289 (2023) SNIP
- 0.701 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 23 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 55 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 16 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 22% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR
Adam E. Green, Ph.D.
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA
EDITOR EMERITUS
Mark A. Runco, Ph.D.
Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, USA
PAST EDITOR
Michael D. Mumford, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR
James Kaufman, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Baptiste Barbot, Ph.D., Université catholique de Louvain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Roger Beaty, Ph.D., Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
Matthias Benedek, Ph.D., University of Graz, Graz, Austria
David Beversdorf, MD, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Joydeep Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
Lila Chrysikou, Ph.D., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dawn Eubanks, Ph.D., Warwick Business School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK
Joshua Fairchild, Ph.D., Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USABoris Forthmann, Ph.D., University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Vlad Glaveanu, Ph.D., Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, and University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Sam Hunter, Ph.D., Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
Zorana Ivcevic, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Dan R. Johnson, Ph.D., Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, USA
Yoed Kenett, Ph.D., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
David Kraemer, Ph.D., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Aaron Kozbelt, Ph.D., Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
Kelsey Medeiros, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA
Roni Reiter-Palmon, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA
Wendy Ross, Ph.D., London Metropolitan University, London, UKManish Saggar, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Indre Viskontas, Ph.D., University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Emmanuelle Volle, MD, Ph.D., Paris Brain Institute, Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Logan L. Watts, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Darya Zabelina, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD
Arthur J. Cropley, Ph.D., University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA
Arne Dietrich, Ph.D., American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Weiping Hu, Ph.D., Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
Maciej Karwowski, Ph.D., The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland
Todd Lubart, Ph.D., Université Paris Descartes, France
Ivonne Chand O'Neal, Ph.D., Creative Testing Services, Washington, DC, USA
M. K. Raina, Ph.D., National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi, India
Ruth Richards, Ph.D., Saybrook University, San Francisco and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Albert Rothenberg, M.D., Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Sandra Russ, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Marjorie Taylor, Ph.D., University of Oregon, OR, USA
Oshin Vartanian, Ph.D., Defence R&D Canada, Toronto, Canada
Robert W. Weisberg, Ph.D., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin, Ph.D., American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Anna Abraham, Ph.D., University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Selcuk Acar, Ph.D., University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
Sergio Agnoli, Ph.D., Marconi Institute for Creativity
Jess Andrews-Hanna, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Karen Barrett Chan, Ph.D., University of San Francisco, CA, USA
David Bashwiner, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Caroline Di Bernardi Luft, Ph.D., Queen Mary University of London, UK
Anjan Chatterjee, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Alexander Christensen, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Andrew Connelly, Ph.D., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Lily Cushenbery, Ph.D., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Alwin de Rooji, Ph.D., Tilburg University, Netherlands
Jennifer Drake, Ph.D., Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
Valeria Drago, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Bradley Ferguson, Ph.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Andreas Fink, Ph.D., University of Graz, Austria
Tamara Friedrich, Ph.D., University of Warwick, England
Giorgio Ganis, Ph.D., University of Plymouth, UK
Kuba Glazek, Ph.D., Private Consulting, USA
Thalia Goldstein, Ph.D., George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Melissa Gutworth, Ph.D., Montclair State, Montclair, NJ, USA
Assal Habibi, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jay H. Hardy, III, Ph.D., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Haiying Long, Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Michael Hein, Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Kim Jaussi, Ph.D., Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
Rex Jung, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Allison Kaufman, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Oded Kleinmintz, Ph.D., Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Jonna Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC, USA
Psyche Loui, Ph.D., Northeastern, Boston, MA, USA
Naama Mayseless-Yahav, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Alex McKay, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Nils Myszowski, Ph.D., Pace University, New York, NY, USA
Tin Nguyen, Ph.D., National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center, and University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA
Yongtaek Oh, Ph.D., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
SueHyeon Paek, Ph.D., University of North Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA
David R. Peterson, Ph.D., James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Meihua Qian, Ph.D., Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
Brent Rosso, Ph.D., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Jonathan Schooler, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paul Silvia, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Logan M. Steele, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Sarah Sumners, Ph.D., University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Pablo Tinio, Ph.D., Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
E. Michelle Todd, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Oshin Vartanian, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Adam Weinberger, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, USA
Daniel Willingham, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Claire Zedelius, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Yong Zeng, Ph.D., Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
GRADUATE STUDENT EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Victor Altmeyer, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Kim Awa, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Marie Beisemann, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
Lucas Bellaiche, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Gregory Boldt, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Mafalda Cardoso-Botelho Peña, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Simon Ceh, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Christine Chesebrough, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Robert Cortes, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Alexis d'Amato, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA
Daniel Holzman, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Barbara-Shae Jackson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Rylee Linhardt, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
James Lloyd-Cox, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
Simone Luchini, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
Sarah Luria, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Nadine Maliakkal, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA
Hannah Merseal, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
Sarah Moreno Rodriguez, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Sampoorna Nandi, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Yuhua Yu, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Aleksandra Zielinska, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
Daniel Zietlin, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
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° Education Source
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° PsycINFO
° TOC Premier (Table of Contents)
• Elsevier BV
° Scopus
• E-psyche
• Exceptional Child Education Resources (Online)
• Ovid
° PsycINFO
• Personal Alert (E-mail)
• ProQuest
° Entrepreneurship Database
° Health Research Premium Collection
° Professional ProQuest Central
° ProQuest 5000
° ProQuest 5000 International
° ProQuest Central
° Psychology Database
° Psychology Module
° Research Library
° PsycINFO
• Taylor & Francis
° Educational Research Abstracts Online
° Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (Online)
• Thomson Reuters
° Current Contents
° Social Sciences Citation Index
° Web of Science
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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