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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

1931-3896

Published by: American Psychological Association

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/aca

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 232 111 180 23

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 149
Documents by Best Scientists*: 212
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 85
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.128
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts?

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts investigates studies in Creativity, Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, Developmental psychology and Cognition. While Creativity is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Mathematics education, Cognitive science and The arts. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Cognitive psychology, it also covered topics in Musical, Task (project management), Perception and Fluency.

Personality, Openness to experience and Big Five personality traits are all aspects of Social psychology research featured in it.

  • Creativity (37.17%)
  • Cognitive psychology (28.66%)
  • Social psychology (23.65%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Assessing Creativity With Divergent Thinking Tasks: Exploring the Reliability and Validity of New Subjective Scoring Methods (453 citations)
  • Toward a broader conception of creativity: A case for "mini-c" creativity. (440 citations)
  • Predictors of individual-level innovation at work: A meta-analysis. (381 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts:

The published papers facilitate discussions on Creativity, Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, Personality and Developmental psychology. Issues in Creativity were discussed in the published papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Test validity and Originality. The journal publications address concerns in Cognitive psychology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Perception, Task (project management), Cognition, Cognitive science and Fluency.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Social psychology
  • Cognition
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts mainly cover the fields of Cognitive psychology, Creativity, Social psychology, Cognition and Cognitive science. The Cognitive psychology works featured in it incorporate elements from Eye tracking, Task (project management), Processing fluency and Musical. Developmental psychology, Metacognition and The arts are some topics wherein Creativity research discussed in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts have an impact.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts tackles research in Personality and Openness to experience as part of the general discipline of Social psychology, however, it also discusses concepts in PsycINFO. While it primarily focused on Cognition, it also opened dialogues on the discipline of Experience level. The journal explores issues in Divergent thinking which can be linked to other research areas like Fluency and Flexibility (personality).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The motor creativity paradox: Constraining to release degrees of freedom. (17 citations)
  • Taking the good with the bad: The impact of forecasting timing and valence on idea evaluation and creativity. (10 citations)
  • The nature of perception and emotion in aesthetic appreciation: A response to Makin’s challenge to empirical aesthetics. (8 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Paul J. Silvia (37 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Roni Reiter-Palmon (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Helmut Leder (25 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • James C. Kaufman (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Aaron Kozbelt (17 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro (34 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Vienna (26 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Connecticut (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Nebraska Omaha (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (17 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 59.60% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 27.50% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.50% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.00% of all publications and 40.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Problem finding and creativity: A meta-analytic review.

    Ahmed M. Abdulla;Sue Hyeon Paek;Bonnie Cramond;Mark A. Runco

    (2020)
    130 Citations
  • What should people be told when they take a divergent thinking test? A meta-analytic review of explicit instructions for divergent thinking.

    Selcuk Acar;Mark A. Runco;Hyeri Park

    (2020)
    91 Citations
  • Order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation.

    Eline Van Geert;Johan Wagemans

    (2020)
    90 Citations
  • Testing Conditions and Creative Performance: Meta-Analyses of the impact of Time Limits and Instructions

    Sameh Said-Metwaly;Belén Fernández-Castilla;Eva Kyndt;Wim Van den Noortgate

    (2020)
    81 Citations
  • The Vienna Art Interest and Art Knowledge Questionnaire (VAIAK): A Unified and Validated Measure of Art Interest and Art Knowledge

    Eva Specker;Michael Forster;Hanna Brinkmann;Jane Boddy

    (2020)
    80 Citations
  • Intellectual risk taking: A moderating link between creative confidence and creative behavior?

    Ronald A. Beghetto;Maciej Karwowski;Roni Reiter-Palmon

    (2020)
    64 Citations
  • Correlation = causation? Music training, psychology, and neuroscience.

    E. Glenn Schellenberg

    (2020)
    61 Citations
  • Does intelligence strengthen creative metacognition

    Maciej Karwowski;Marta Czerwonka;James C. Kaufman

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Gender differences in creative potential: A meta-analysis of mean differences and variability.

    (2022)
    53 Citations
  • The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German

    Wolff Schlotz;Wolff Schlotz;Sebastian Wallot;Diana Omigie;Diana Omigie;Michael D. Masucci

    (2020)
    43 Citations

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