Selçuk Acar

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Selçuk Acar is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Selçuk Acar has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 19 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Selçuk Acar's work include Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (64 papers), Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (23 papers) and Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function (14 papers). Selçuk Acar is often cited by papers focused on Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (64 papers), Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (23 papers) and Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function (14 papers). Selçuk Acar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bahrain and Türkiye. Selçuk Acar's co-authors include Mark A. Runco, Nur Cayırdağ, Garnet W. Millar, Bonnie Cramond, Sedat Şen, John F. Cabra, Denis Dumas, Peter Organisciak, Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi and Recep Uysal and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Educational Psychology and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Selçuk Acar

75 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Divergent Thinking as an ... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2023 250 500 750
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Divergent Thinking as an Indicator of Creative Potential
    2012 835 citations Mark A. Runco, Selçuk Acar profile →
  2. Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models
    2023 98 citations Peter Organisciak, Selçuk Acar et al. Thinking Skills and Creativity profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Selçuk Acar 2.6k 1.0k 599 517 334 81 3.1k
Baptiste Barbot 1.7k 0.7× 649 0.6× 496 0.8× 421 0.8× 215 0.6× 86 2.5k
Garrett Jaeger 1.7k 0.7× 631 0.6× 413 0.7× 347 0.7× 290 0.9× 10 2.2k
Emily C. Nusbaum 2.0k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 713 1.2× 302 0.6× 174 0.5× 32 2.7k
Gayle T. Dow 1.3k 0.5× 383 0.4× 291 0.5× 428 0.8× 192 0.6× 9 1.7k
Izabela Lebuda 1.5k 0.6× 528 0.5× 502 0.8× 299 0.6× 125 0.4× 70 2.0k
Zorana Ivčević 1.2k 0.5× 521 0.5× 880 1.5× 339 0.7× 78 0.2× 66 2.4k
Donald J. Treffinger 1.9k 0.7× 474 0.5× 439 0.7× 549 1.1× 475 1.4× 114 2.8k
Jean E. Pretz 981 0.4× 386 0.4× 353 0.6× 309 0.6× 146 0.4× 29 1.8k
Boris Forthmann 1.2k 0.5× 483 0.5× 275 0.5× 267 0.5× 160 0.5× 84 1.6k
Eric F. Rietzschel 1.3k 0.5× 421 0.4× 824 1.4× 194 0.4× 347 1.0× 42 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Selçuk Acar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Selçuk Acar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Acar, Selçuk & Yuan Shen. (2025). Along the Convergent–Divergent Continuum: The Role of Task Structure in the PISA Creative Thinking Assessment. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 59(2). 2 indexed citations
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Dumas, Denis, et al.. (2025). Reversing the alternate uses task. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 58. 101915–101915.
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Alabbasi, Ahmed M. Abdulla, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Setting, Time of Day, and Giftedness on Divergent Thinking Test Scores. SAGE Open. 15(1).
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2024). Are Bilinguals More Creative Than Monolinguals? A Meta‐Analysis. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 58(4). 755–776. 2 indexed citations
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Dumas, Denis, et al.. (2024). Performance and Perception of Creativity and Academic Achievement in Elementary School Students: A Normal Mixture Modeling Study. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 58(2). 245–261. 6 indexed citations
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Runco, Mark A., et al.. (2024). Examining the Idea Density and Semantic Distance of Responses Given by AI to Tests of Divergent Thinking. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 59(3). 2 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, Peter Organisciak, & Denis Dumas. (2024). Automated Scoring of Figural Tests of Creativity with Computer Vision. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 59(1). 7 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2024). Measuring original thinking in elementary school: Development and validation of a computational psychometric approach.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 116(6). 953–981. 15 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2024). A Reliability Generalization of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking-Figural. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 40(5). 396–411. 10 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2024). Testing the Domain Specificity of Creativity with Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale: A Meta‐Analytic Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 58(1). 171–189. 5 indexed citations
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Dumas, Denis, et al.. (2023). What Makes Children's Responses to Creativity Assessments Difficult to Judge Reliably?. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 57(3). 419–438. 9 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2023). College Students’ Academic Online Engagement, Creative Self-Efficacy, Self-Regulation and Wellbeing During the Pandemic. European Journal of Education and Pedagogy. 4(6). 83–92. 1 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2023). Measuring Creativity in Academic Writing: An Analysis of Essays in Advanced Placement Language and Composition. Journal of Advanced Academics. 34(3-4). 183–214. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Shengjie, et al.. (2022). Divergent Thinking and Evaluative Skill: A Meta‐Analysis. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 56(3). 432–448. 26 indexed citations
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Oğurlu, Üzeyir, et al.. (2022). Does Word Frequency Impact Ideational Fluency in Divergent Thinking? A Meta-analytic Exploration with the Alternate Uses Test. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 47. 101139–101139. 7 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2022). Exploration of discriminant validity in divergent thinking tasks: A meta-analysis.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 17(6). 705–724. 29 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2021). Applying Automated Originality Scoring to the Verbal Form of Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Gifted Child Quarterly. 67(1). 3–17. 34 indexed citations
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Paek, Sue Hyeon, Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi, Selçuk Acar, & Mark A. Runco. (2021). Is more time better for divergent thinking? A meta-analysis of the time-on-task effect on divergent thinking. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 41. 100894–100894. 35 indexed citations
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Acar, Selçuk, et al.. (2007). Zeka-Liderlik İlişkisi: Üstün Zekalı Olan ve Olmayan Öğrencilerin Liderlik Becerilerinin Karşılaştırılması. 4(2). 3 indexed citations

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