Since the 1970s, more than 200 masters 'theses and doctoral dissertations in Taiwan alone have taken creativity as their subject matter. Though creatology came late to mainland China, it has boomed there as well. Since it arrived there in the early 1980s, mainland scholars have produced more than 300 monographs on the subject.
單以我國大學計算，把「創造力」當作研究題目的碩、博士論文，自 1970 年代以來已不下 200 篇；彼岸的中國雖然在 1980 年代初才開始接觸「創造學」，但進展迅速，二十餘年來相關專著已達 300 部以上。