OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Music Education is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Practitioner–researchers’ views of disability education project for children with severe multiple disabilities: A first-person group study using collaborative autoethnography	44
Music literacy in higher education in Mexico: Current conceptions and teaching practices	19
Participatory Music Practitioners’ Skills, Experience and Pathways for Learning: Perspectives From Belgium and the UK	15
Exploring the career development issues of young musicians through participation in music festivals: A case study of the Youth Music Culture Guangdong Festival	14
Effect of music education based on Edwin E. Gordon’s Theory on children’s developmental music aptitude and social emotional learning skills	13
Creating affordances for families with young children: Experiences of music education in social work	12
Music teacher identity: Reassessing perceptions during a global pandemic	12
The effects of the pandemic on music teaching in schools in Quebec (Canada) in the spring and fall of 2020	11
Institutional change in higher music education: A quest for legitimacy	11
Rethinking “musical excellence” from a decolonial perspective: Disruptive autobiographical experiences among doctoral scholars	10
The development of music education philosophy in mainland China during 1990–2022: A corpus-based thematic review	10
A survey research study of music education faculty: Demographics as related to indicators of job satisfaction and stress	10
The development of formative assessment rubrics for enhancing students’ performance on Thai percussion instruments	9
Engaged pedagogy in teacher education: A literature review	8
Improvising for the test: Influences of graded music examinations on the teaching and learning of improvisation within studio lessons	8
Achievements, difficulties, and goals of the Spanish Society for Music Education (SEM-EE): A phenomenological study	8
A phenomenological study of music education majors’ vocational identity development during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Digital musicianship in post-pandemic popular music education	8
An online community of interns: Examining the music student teaching seminar in a virtual setting	7
Collegiate musicians’ experiences with democratic rehearsal procedures	7
Korean preservice music teachers’ perceptions of blended learning in music education course	7
Can the professional study of a musical instrument be associated with the development of cognitive processes? A meta-analytic study	7
Trainee Teacher Motivations for Music Integration in UAE Primary Classrooms: A Theory of Planned Behaviour Study	7
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

Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe	6
Collaborative composing with inclusive music ensembles: What attitude, knowledge and skills do composers need?	6
Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model in choir ensemble: Perspective form choirmasters in Klang Valley, Malaysia	6
Instructor experiences with online guitar lessons during the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	6
The evolution of the method of ‘oral and heart-to-heart teaching’ in contemporary times: Based on the observation of Shandong opera classroom	6
Inclusive music teacher education: Valuing breadth and diversity through authentic immersive experiences	6
The effect of collective sight-singing before melodic dictation: A pilot study	6
Creativity, agency, and stability: Perceptions of Canadian musicians working across the cultural domains	6
“I seldom see an Asian face”: Experiences of East Asian International Students in American Music Education Degree Programs	5
Investigating Amateur Choirs in the United Kingdom as Sites of Musical Learning and Ambition	5
Preservice music educators’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching students with disabilities following special education coursework: A comparative mixed-methods study	5
Teaching free improvisation: European higher music education teachers’ conceptual tools	5
Mobile learning as deep learning: Content analysis of in-service primary school music teachers’ lesson plans in mobile music creation	5
Technology-enhanced creativity in K-12 music education: A scoping review	4
The mystery of discrepancies of piano education for children in China: How social classes affect musical parenting of parents	4
Work-based placements in European higher music education institutions	4
‘We hear with our eyes!’ Unlocking tacit knowledge about multisensory music performing	4
Music majors’ self-regulated learning (SRL) of music practice in China: Two case studies based on the SRL microanalysis	4
The Effect of Directed Practice Worksheets and Logs on Individual Practice and Performance Outcomes of Secondary Group-Piano Students	4
Creative musical activities in early childhood education: An analysis of teaching practices	4
Perceptions of Trauma and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: A Multiple-Case Study of Three Chinese Music Teachers	4
Teaching artists or live performers? Early careers after a Jazz Master’s graduation in French-speaking Switzerland	4
Online curriculum marketplaces and music education: A critical analysis of music activities on TeachersPayTeachers.com	4
High-pressure in music education: Understanding the phenomenon and empowering students	4
Patterns of engagement with professional development among in-service primary music teachers in China and their associations with teaching readiness, school identification, and job satisfaction: A lat	4
Integrating Music-Color Cross-Modal Correspondences in World Music Pedagogy: An Embedded Case Study for Chinese Traditional Music Appreciation	4
Poverty, adolescent males, and singing: A profile of schools in Bogotá, Colombia	4
Pre-college piano teaching practice in China and the United States: An international comparative study from the piano teachers’ perspectives	4
Towards a relational model of musical knowledge: Findings from a Belfast-based case study	4
It’s Not What, It’s How: Quantity of Instructional Behaviors Are Not Necessarily Associated with Perceptions of Rapport in Preservice Music Teachers and Students	4
Perspectives of international teaching assistants on working in music disciplines in American higher education	4
Editorial	4
A structural equation model of preschool teacher candidates’ self-efficacy beliefs for music teaching: The role of academic and preschool teaching self-efficacy	4
Chinese Primary School Students’ Singing Behaviour by Age, Sex and Socio-economic Status	4
An Australian Study of Transferable Music Skills: The Impact of Instrumental Music Education on Non-Music Employment	3
What and how? Or why and for whom? A content analysis of middle school general music literature	3
Instrument teachers’ practices, beliefs, and barriers regarding musical creativity: Exploring the creative process of interpretation	3
Antiquity in the history of music: A critical review of the music textbooks for secondary education in Spain	3
Curriculum and training analysis of the music degrees in Colombia	3
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	3
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	3
‘ Belonging, Being and Becoming ’: Supporting preschooler’s identity development through Musicking	3
Expanding the music circle through networked improvisation in an inclusive ensemble	3
Encouraging creativity through music improvisation activities: Pre-service primary general teacher-students’ reflections and beliefs	3
Extension of the 3 × 2 achievement goal model to university concert band performance	3
Exploring music learning needs of working-age individuals in Thailand	3
Home away from home: An examination of a Caribbean youth steel pan ensemble	3
Music performance anxiety: A study of anxiety predictors in higher education music students in Portugal	3
Trauma-sensitive teaching: Supporting refugee students through music education	3
Sight-reading components across tonal and atonal environments in music: An exploratory analysis of performers’ self-assessed proficiency	3

Analysis of cultural heritage in music didactic materials in Galicia