OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Music Education is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions and experiences of preservice music educators working with students with disabilities: A mixed methods inquiry of online field experiences within a music for special education course	15
What are the affordances of the digital music space in alternative education? A reflection on an exploratory music outreach project in rural Australia	14
Unlocking sound: New trends and innovations in intonation education over the past decade	13
The effects of cognitive-emotional music listening in ear training on acquired knowledge and liking of the lessons	12
Poverty, adolescent males, and singing: A profile of schools in Bogotá, Colombia	12
Didactic transposition in music education: Exploring didactical suitability in three Navarrese schools	12
Zoltán Kodály gives a hand to secondary school students in recorder performance and attitudes toward music in Turkey	11
Adapting music education to pandemic regulations: Conceptualizing the school demands-resource theoretical innovation through autoethnography	11
Exploring synergy in a mobile learning model for piano playing ornaments exercise with local musical heritage	10
Bridging the Digital Divide: Distance music learning among older adult musicians	10
Seeking alternatives in music education: The effects of mobile technologies on students’ achievement in basic music theory	9
Bibliometric study of scientific production in music education from 2000 to 2022	9
The Music Practice Motivation Scale: An exploration of secondary instrumental music students’ motivation to practice	8
Work-based placements in European higher music education institutions	8
East meets West: Investigating the state of DJing culture and turntablism pedagogy in China	8
Moving beyond data collection: Fostering community engagement in community music schools	8
Music majors’ self-regulated learning (SRL) of music practice in China: Two case studies based on the SRL microanalysis	7
Practitioner–researchers’ views of disability education project for children with severe multiple disabilities: A first-person group study using collaborative autoethnography	7
Pre-college piano teaching practice in China and the United States: An international comparative study from the piano teachers’ perspectives	7
Children’s feelings about piano performances across a year of study	6
Effect of music education based on Edwin E. Gordon’s Theory on children’s developmental music aptitude and social emotional learning skills	6
Music literacy in higher education in Mexico: Current conceptions and teaching practices	6
Music education undergraduates’ construction of music teacher role-identity	5
Fishers of song: Music education and community in Andavadoaka, Madagascar	5
The effects of the pandemic on music teaching in schools in Quebec (Canada) in the spring and fall of 2020	5

Teaching the whole singer: An examination of methods used to address student wellness in the collegiate voice studio	5
Perceptions of improvements in piano performance following a Body Mapping workshop	5
The inhibition of musicality: Perspectives of piano teachers in Malaysia and Singapore	5
Collaborative untangling of positionality, ownership, and answerability as white researchers in indigenous spaces	4
Mind, body, and soul: The effects of bodily movement on listeners’ perceptions of choral performances	4
‘We hear with our eyes!’ Unlocking tacit knowledge about multisensory music performing	4
Classical soloists’ life histories and the music conservatoire	4
The ‘professional digital competence’: Exploring the perspective of primary music teachers in Spain	4
Music teacher identity: Reassessing perceptions during a global pandemic	4
Uncovering children’s experiences of emergent learning difficulties in the instrumental music studio	4
Music-related wellbeing as a teaching objective? A critical interpretive synthesis	4
A Yin-Yang approach: Investigating students’ beliefs about teaching and learning in music among college students in Macau, China	4
Mentoring in the context of music teacher education: A systematic review	4
The potential role of an activity-based guitar program on the anxiety and fulfillment levels of younger relatives of cancer patients: A pilot study	4
Beyond musical repertory: Euro-Americentric ways of knowing in the International Baccalaureate high school music curriculum framework	4
Norm-disruptive learning and music teacher competency development: A thematic synthesis	4
Investigating the moderating role of coping style on music performance anxiety and perfectionism	4
Incorporation of informal music learning practices in a primary classroom in Cyprus	4
Creating affordances for families with young children: Experiences of music education in social work	3
High-pressure in music education: Understanding the phenomenon and empowering students	3
Negotiating queer voices: How five south African queer music educators negotiate their professional identity	3
Inclusive socio-musical spaces for newly arrived migrant children in a Norwegian primary school: Teacher and school leader perspectives	3
Collective free improvisation in the Flemish general music classroom: Probing student’s lived experience through flow	3
Formal, informal, and non-formal learning as analytic categories for research in music education	3
Interview ready: A student-led artistic project as an authentic experience to support pre-service music teachers’ pathways to employment	3
Exploring the career development issues of young musicians through participation in music festivals: A case study of the Youth Music Culture Guangdong Festival	3
Expanding models of music composition: Exploring the value of collaboration	3
Adela and transformative learning: A Freirean perspective on a community music education project in Melbourne, Australia	3
The development of music education philosophy in mainland China during 1990–2022: A corpus-based thematic review	3
A study of rhythmic emergent literacy within an Orff-based program implemented in Israel	3
“Mistakes are just information”: A case study of a highly successful violin pedagogue	3
Guided listening as meaningful learning: A study of Israeli secular Jewish High School music programs	3
Understanding music teachers’ formative assessment intention and implementation: A Chinese Mainland context	3
Effects of straw phonation on choral acoustic and perceptual measures after an acclimation period	3
Playing by ear and the development of music skills at pre-school age	3
Music education instructors’ perceptions about pre-service music teacher education in Spain	3
The development of formative assessment rubrics for enhancing students’ performance on Thai percussion instruments	2
Music education at the primary level in Syria, before and during the current crisis	2
Exploring musician-educators’ reflections on a collaborative cross-cultural music making encounter in Singapore	2
Creative musical activities in early childhood education: An analysis of teaching practices	2
Why (not) be a music teacher? Exploring pre-service music teachers’ sources of concern regarding their future profession	2
Music teacher educator growth through Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) research	2
Synchronous online instrumental music teaching in cross-cultural learning contexts	2
A systematic literature review of Chinese music education studies during 2007 to 2019	2
Corrigendum to Integrating popular music into urban schools: Assessing the effectiveness of a comprehensive music teacher development program	2
Children’s informal music learning: A phenomenological inquiry	2
Trauma-sensitive teaching: Supporting refugee students through music education	2
Becoming the music teacher: Stories of generalist teaching and teacher education in music	2
How do college musicians self-manage musical performance anxiety: Strategies through time periods and types of performance	2
Developing metacognition as an instructional approach for enhancing young pianists’ musical expressivity	2

The applicability of Anglosphere-based popular music learning culture characterisations to a Malaysian context	2
Musical Futures in New Zealand: A study in recontextualisation	2
Intelligent Interactive Piano Teaching	2
Teaching creative music in El Sistema and after-school music contexts	2
Re-positionings and reductions: A case of curriculum evolution in senior secondary music in Victoria, Australia	2
Presage: First year music students’ experiences, understandings, expectations and aspirations on entering an undergraduate music program	2
Hindrances to recognition in Finnish music schools	2
Rethinking “musical excellence” from a decolonial perspective: Disruptive autobiographical experiences among doctoral scholars	2
What does research-led teaching mean for music performance programs? Students and educators perspectives from Swedish higher music education	2
Norwegian schools of music and arts: Local significance and strategies of inclusion	2
Institutional change in higher music education: A quest for legitimacy	2