OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Music Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Music literacy in higher education in Mexico: Current conceptions and teaching practices	19
Exploring the career development issues of young musicians through participation in music festivals: A case study of the Youth Music Culture Guangdong Festival	19
Music teacher identity: Reassessing perceptions during a global pandemic	16
The effects of the pandemic on music teaching in schools in Quebec (Canada) in the spring and fall of 2020	13
Creating affordances for families with young children: Experiences of music education in social work	12
Practitioner–researchers’ views of disability education project for children with severe multiple disabilities: A first-person group study using collaborative autoethnography	12
Children’s feelings about piano performances across a year of study	12
The development of formative assessment rubrics for enhancing students’ performance on Thai percussion instruments	11
Effect of music education based on Edwin E. Gordon’s Theory on children’s developmental music aptitude and social emotional learning skills	11
Rethinking “musical excellence” from a decolonial perspective: Disruptive autobiographical experiences among doctoral scholars	9
A survey research study of music education faculty: Demographics as related to indicators of job satisfaction and stress	9
The development of music education philosophy in mainland China during 1990–2022: A corpus-based thematic review	9
Engaged pedagogy in teacher education: A literature review	8
Exploring musician-educators’ reflections on a collaborative cross-cultural music making encounter in Singapore	8
Institutional change in higher music education: A quest for legitimacy	8
The problem of secondary school music enrolments: Tensions between relevance, engagement and improving musical skills and knowledge	7
Music studies as cultural capital accumulation and its impact on music genre preferences	7
The complexities of meaningful experiential learning: Exploring reflective practice in music performance studies	6
On the quality of professional development in the United States: Examining music educators’ experiences, sentiments, and emotions	6
An online community of interns: Examining the music student teaching seminar in a virtual setting	6
Can the professional study of a musical instrument be associated with the development of cognitive processes? A meta-analytic study	6
Digital musicianship in post-pandemic popular music education	6
Achievements, difficulties, and goals of the Spanish Society for Music Education (SEM-EE): A phenomenological study	6
Collegiate musicians’ experiences with democratic rehearsal procedures	6
The influences of college life adaptation and career decision self-efficacy on career achievement stress: Focus on students majoring in piano performance in South Korea	5

The effect of collective sight-singing before melodic dictation: A pilot study	5
Inclusive music teacher education: Valuing breadth and diversity through authentic immersive experiences	5
Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe	5
Preservice music educators’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching students with disabilities following special education coursework: A comparative mixed-methods study	5
Collaborative composing with inclusive music ensembles: What attitude, knowledge and skills do composers need?	5
Korean preservice music teachers’ perceptions of blended learning in music education course	5
Online curriculum marketplaces and music education: A critical analysis of music activities on TeachersPayTeachers.com	5
Music majors’ self-regulated learning (SRL) of music practice in China: Two case studies based on the SRL microanalysis	4
Instructor experiences with online guitar lessons during the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	4
Creativity, agency, and stability: Perceptions of Canadian musicians working across the cultural domains	4
The mystery of discrepancies of piano education for children in China: How social classes affect musical parenting of parents	4
It’s about time: An examination of the importance of timing on positivity of preservice music educators’ teaching reflections	4
A comparative study of piano performance programs at university-level institutions in China and the United States: From current faculty members’ and students’ perspectives	4
Mobile learning as deep learning: Content analysis of in-service primary school music teachers’ lesson plans in mobile music creation	4
Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model in choir ensemble: Perspective form choirmasters in Klang Valley, Malaysia	4
Technology-enhanced creativity in K-12 music education: A scoping review	4
Perspectives of international teaching assistants on working in music disciplines in American higher education	4
Teaching free improvisation: European higher music education teachers’ conceptual tools	4
The evolution of the method of ‘oral and heart-to-heart teaching’ in contemporary times: Based on the observation of Shandong opera classroom	4
Teaching artists or live performers? Early careers after a Jazz Master’s graduation in French-speaking Switzerland	4
Towards a relational model of musical knowledge: Findings from a Belfast-based case study	4
Effects of straw phonation on choral acoustic and perceptual measures after an acclimation period	3
Work-based placements in European higher music education institutions	3
“Mistakes are just information”: A case study of a highly successful violin pedagogue	3
Hindrances to recognition in Finnish music schools	3
High-pressure in music education: Understanding the phenomenon and empowering students	3
Exploring synergy in a mobile learning model for piano playing ornaments exercise with local musical heritage	3
‘We hear with our eyes!’ Unlocking tacit knowledge about multisensory music performing	3
Bridging the Digital Divide: Distance music learning among older adult musicians	3
Trauma-sensitive teaching: Supporting refugee students through music education	3
Pre-college piano teaching practice in China and the United States: An international comparative study from the piano teachers’ perspectives	3
Poverty, adolescent males, and singing: A profile of schools in Bogotá, Colombia	3
Learning collective free music improvisation as a socio-communicative endeavor: Preservice teachers’ journey in a teacher preparation course in Singapore	3
Creative musical activities in early childhood education: An analysis of teaching practices	3
Making interdisciplinary connections through music: A systematic review of studies in general schooling context in Turkey	2
Learner-centered pedagogy and student engagement in a virtual elementary instrumental music program	2
Learning strategies of video game music makers: Informal and school-based learning for online publication	2
Encouraging creativity through music improvisation activities: Pre-service primary general teacher-students’ reflections and beliefs	2
Antiquity in the history of music: A critical review of the music textbooks for secondary education in Spain	2
A structural equation model of preschool teacher candidates’ self-efficacy beliefs for music teaching: The role of academic and preschool teaching self-efficacy	2
The impact of a music education program on meta-musical awareness, logical-mathematical, and notational skills in preschoolers	2
Correlation of piano lesson success of music teacher candidates with their piano exam anxiety levels and their opinions on causes of anxiety	2
What and how? Or why and for whom? A content analysis of middle school general music literature	2
A case study: 30 elementary music education majors’ perceptions of preparedness, interest, and comfort teaching choir before and after taking a choral methods course	2
Building an evaluation index system of musical collaborative capacity for China’s compulsory music education: Using a combined Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process approach	2
The author and the piano student: The transferability of the creative process in practice	2
Creativity, autonomy and Dalcroze Eurhythmics: An arts practice exploration	2
Effects of focus of attention instructions on listeners’ evaluations of solo instrumental performance	2
Expanding the music circle through networked improvisation in an inclusive ensemble	2
Music performance anxiety: A study of anxiety predictors in higher education music students in Portugal	2

Exploring music learning needs of working-age individuals in Thailand	2
Instrument teachers’ practices, beliefs, and barriers regarding musical creativity: Exploring the creative process of interpretation	2
How popular music pedagogy is integrated in the diverse environment of international school education in China: A case study in Shanghai	2
Music education in the digital age: Challenges associated with sound homogenization in music aimed at adolescents	2
Extension of the 3 × 2 achievement goal model to university concert band performance	2
Finnish music class studies and extracurricular playing in promoting grit and sisu, the inner fortitude: Reconceptualizing sisu as a predecessor of flow, growth and flourishing	2
Sight-reading components across tonal and atonal environments in music: An exploratory analysis of performers’ self-assessed proficiency	2
Curriculum and training analysis of the music degrees in Colombia	2
Analysis of cultural heritage in music didactic materials in Galicia	2
Preservice teachers’ experiences as first-time voice instructors	2
Innovative and disruptive pedagogies in music education: A systematic review of the literature	1
“I want to know more about the world”: A case study of international-mindedness as a means of professional development for music teachers in China	1
Music teachers’ perceptions of intercultural competence in Spain	1
The inhibition of musicality: Perspectives of piano teachers in Malaysia and Singapore	1
A portrait of self-regulated musical learning behaviors among rock musicians: Applications in music education	1
Ghanaian collegiate music students who play brass instruments’ music education experiences at the pre-tertiary level	1
Adela and transformative learning: A Freirean perspective on a community music education project in Melbourne, Australia	1
Exploring music integration: Early childhood and elementary teacher practices	1
Playing by ear and the development of music skills at pre-school age	1
Analyses of titles and authors from 50 years of ISME Research Commission manuscripts 1968 to 2018	1
Music professionalism promoting gerotranscendence: An instrumental case study of healthcare musicians in an eldercare hospital	1
Oboe educators’ perspectives on playing-related injury, Part II: Barriers, solutions, and teaching practices	1
Facing the challenges of the inclusion of visually impaired students: Music teacher’s perceptions	1
Collective free improvisation in the Flemish general music classroom: Probing student’s lived experience through flow	1
Exploring the low enrolment of music as a subject within Hong Kong senior secondary school education	1
Atheist public school choir directors and their views on religious music performance	1
The musical actions of mobile youth	1
Oboe educators’ perspectives on playing-related injury, Part I: Lived experience and perceptions surrounding injury	1
“It’s your body, it’s part of who you are!”: Influences upon collegiate vocalists’ performance self-efficacy beliefs	1
Online music education for sustainable development: Analysis of music learning videos in e-Hakseupteo	1
The learning experiences and musical proficiencies of formal and informal popular musicians in Malaysia	1
Gender equality discourse in classical music higher education: Women, individualisation, and change	1
Developing the music listening skills test (MLST) for pre-school and elementary school teacher candidates	1
Bibliometric study of scientific production in music education from 2000 to 2022	1
The conservatory debated from a critical pedagogy perspective	1
Unlocking sound: New trends and innovations in intonation education over the past decade	1
Investigating the moderating role of coping style on music performance anxiety and perfectionism	1
Development and Validation of The Anadolu University Music Perception Test	1
Fishers of song: Music education and community in Andavadoaka, Madagascar	1
Designing music education curriculum in a multicultural environment: Vocal training in China	1
Autoethnographic narrative as a lens on life-long musician-teacher identity	1
Understanding music teachers’ perceptions of themselves and their work: An Importance–Confidence Analysis	1
Collective and individual practices in popular music: Differences between semi-professionals and professionals in Austria and Germany	1
Approaches to developing community: A survey of the perspectives of American female undergraduate prospective band directors	1
Becoming the music teacher: Stories of generalist teaching and teacher education in music	1
Does length of training period impact the effectiveness of reciprocal peer teaching in university group piano students?	1
The many ways of Puerto Rican community music	1
Music and mathematics: Key components and contributions of an integrated STEAM teaching approach	1
How much is too much? Effects of unexpressive, expressive, and overly-expressive conducting on ensemble expressivity ratings	1
The Music Practice Motivation Scale: An exploration of secondary instrumental music students’ motivation to practice	1
Negotiating queer voices: How five south African queer music educators negotiate their professional identity	1
The ecology for fostering the musical creativity of students with intellectual disabilities	1
The effects of peer-assisted learning on rhythmic and melodic sight-reading in a middle school chorus	1
Children’s informal music learning: A phenomenological inquiry	1