OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Early twentieth-century recordings in higher music education: a preliminary analysis of the students’ views	11
Knowing ‘how to create’ in order to know ‘how to teach’? Perceptions and conditioning of Spanish music teachers in secondary education	10
The impact of teachers’ listening habits on how much listening activity is used in music lessons	9
Enabling more equitable teaching of advanced GCE level (A-Level) Music in England: a partnership approach	8
Making space for singing in the 21st century classroom – A focus group interview study with primary school music teachers in Sweden	7
Experiencing Music Technology - Experiencing Music Technology (Fourth Edition) by David Brian Williams and Peter Richard Webster, Oxford University Press, 2022. Pbk, 576pp. £82.45. ISBN: 978-01906357	7
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account - Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account by Graham J. McPhail . Routledge, 2023. Hbk, 256pp, £130. ISBN: 9781032292519.	6
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music by Edward R. McClellan, Taylor and Francis, 2023. Pbk, 182pp, £35.99. ISBN: 9781003038474	5
An investigation into the factors influencing teachers’ inclusion of improvisation in piano lessons	5
Inclusion and exclusion in music education through the eyes of Utu	4
Difference in instrumental tuition in higher music education: towards an analytical framework	4
Aspirations and limitations: the state of world music education in secondary schools in multicultural Manchester	4
To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music by Clint Randles. GIA Publications, 2020. 328pp., pbk, £20.99, ISBN: 978-1622774548.	4
BME volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
The Australian Music Students Health Survey: impact of past experience on student attitudes to health education	4
Culture, Creativity, and Music Education in China: Developments and Challenges by Wai-Chung Ho, 2023, Pbk, 234pp. £38.99, Routledge, ISBN 9781032397702	4
BME volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Use of animated stories to improve music education practices of trainee primary school teachers in Spain	3
Editorial music and inclusion: philosophies, practices and possibilities	3
BME volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Developing teacher curriculum design expertise: using the CDC Model in the music classroom	3
Joining alone: factors that influence the musical participation of young adults after leaving school	3
The musical lives of young children in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Mr. Murray Schafer, listen, they are talking about you: a systematic review of the conceptual representations of your ideas in the context of 21st-century education	2
Editorial	2

A scoping review of empirical studies on informal music learning	2
Music Schools in Changing Societies: How Collaborative Professionalism Can Transform Music Education edited by Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk and Heidi Westerlund, New York, Routledge, 2024, 234pp. $35	2
Working musically with care-experienced children and their families in the early years	2
How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak	2
Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre. Series: SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music, by Guro Gravem Johansen. Routledge, 2021. xiv+190	2
Challenges and tension fields in classical instrumental group tuition: interviews with Swedish Art and Music School teachers	2
Learn Faster,Perform Better: A Musician’s Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing by Molly Gebrian. Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pages. ISBN: 9780197680070	2
Debates in Music Teaching, edited by Chris Philpott and Gary Spruce. 2nd edition, 1 August 2025. 380 pp, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003439578	1
Using the model of generative change to facilitate informal music learning	1
Towards a model of playful music learning for primary classrooms: recommendations based on a review of literature	1
BJME book review, Dec 2022: Elizabeth Haddon - Sound Teaching: A Research-Informed Approach to Inspiring Confidence, Skill, and Enjoyment in Music Performance edited by Henrique Meissner, Renee Timme	1
BME volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Teacher professional development and educational innovation through action research in conservatoire education in the Netherlands	1
Babysong revisited: communication with babies through song	1
What’s in and what’s out of music education?	1
Accessing musical and curriculum literacies: historical echoes for music teacher practices in the English secondary school	1
Transforming African musics at a South African university	1
BME volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
BME volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice – CORRIGENDUM	1
Editorial	1
‘Because I’m not musical’: A critical case study of music education training for pre-service generalist primary teachers in Australia	1
‘To every thing turn turn turn’: a commentary on new materialisms in (early childhood) music education	1
T. Laes, G. Biesta and H. Westerlund (Eds.) (2025). The Transformative Politics of Music Education. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-032-49495-1	1
‘It blew my mind’. Creating spaces for integrating creativity, electroacoustic music and digital competencies for student teachers	1
Students’ attitudes to school music and perceived barriers to GCSE music uptake: a phenomenographic approach	1
Moving away from the habitus? Narrative accounts from classically trained student secondary school music teachers in Wales	1
Exploring implementation of the UK Misogyny in Music report’s recommendations to address gender inequalities in music education in England	1