OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Dementia-inclusive group-singing online during COVID-19: A qualitative exploration	20
Exploring Guided Imagery and Music as a well-being intervention: A systematic literature review	10
NICU music therapy and mother-preterm infant synchrony: A longitudinal case study in the South of Brazil	10
Effects of maternal singing during kangaroo care on maternal anxiety, wellbeing, and mother-infant relationship after preterm birth: a mixed methods study	10
Impact of COVID-19 on clinical research	8
Intimacy, mutuality & negotiations: Dialogic moments in joint improvisation	8
Musical pathways to the peer community: A collective case study of refugee children’s use of music therapy	7
The LongSTEP approach: Theoretical framework and intervention protocol for using parent-driven infant-directed singing as resource-oriented music therapy	7
Feasibility of emotion-regulating improvisational music therapy for young adult students with depressive symptoms: A process evaluation	7
Developing consensus description of group music therapy characteristics for persons with dementia	7
Embracing technological possibilities in the telehealth delivery of interactive music therapy	7
Evaluating feasibility of the LongSTEP (Longitudinal study of music therapy’s effectiveness for premature infants and their caregivers) protocol with a Polish cohort	7
Perspectives on musical competence for people with borderline personality disorder in group music therapy	6
Exploring the role and impact of group songwriting with multiple stakeholders in recovery-oriented mental health services	6
Professional entanglements: A qualitative systematic review of healthcare musicians’ work in somatic hospital wards	6
A musical improvisation framework for Shaping Interpersonal Trust	6
Replication of a course-based undergraduate research experience for music students	6
Together in song: Designing a singing for health group intervention for older people living in the community	5
Music-mechanisms at the core of music therapy: Towards a format for a description of music therapy micro-interventions	5
Structure, agency and community: Using online music gatherings to support social inclusion for people with disabilities in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
COME_IN: A qualitative framework for content, meanings and intersubjectivity in free dyadic improvisations	5
Study protocol of the MUSED study: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the psychobiological effects of group music therapy in women with depression	4
The inner music of analytical music therapy	4
The influences of inter music therapy on music therapists who experience it	4
Therapist and individual experiences and perceptions of music therapy for adolescents who stutter: A qualitative exploration	3

Clinical teletraining in music therapy: Two educators’ perspectives	3
Transitioning to teletherapy during COVID-19	3
Perceptions of mental health assessment and resource-oriented music therapy assessment in a child and youth mental health service	3
Where are the mixed methods research studies?	3
Monitoring variation to Guided Imagery and Music (GIM): Development of the GIM Treatment Fidelity Instrument	3
Reflecting on relational needs in the context of a global health crisis	3
Alliance building in music therapy for forensic psychiatric patients with schizophrenia. An exploratory case study research design	3
Yoik in Sami elderly and dementia care – a potential for culturally sensitive music therapy?	3
Music therapy as multiplicity: Implications for music therapy philosophy and theory	3
Research into increasing resilience in children with autism through music therapy: Statistical analysis of video data	3
Three aspects of dialogue in music therapy: A theoretical treatise	3
The effects of music listening on the management of pain in primary dysmenorrhea: A randomized controlled clinical trial	3
Scoping review and concept analysis of early adolescents’ emotional skills: Towards development of a music therapy assessment tool	2
Institutional logics and the organizational context of music therapy	2
A response to Blauth and Oldfield’s “Research into increasing resilience in children with autism through music therapy: Statistical analysis of video data”	2
Respect-focused writing: An invitation to reflexivity in the use of terminology	2
Being a person who plays in a band rather than being a person with a mental illness playing in a band: A qualitative study of stigma in the context of music therapy in mental health aftercare	2
Music therapy spanning from NICU to home: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Israeli parents’ experiences in the LongSTEP Trial	2
A research-based map of music therapy in the Czech Republic: Comparisons with other arts therapies	2
Historical and contemporary perspectives on the development of analytical music therapy Training	2
Clinical applications of feminist music therapy: An overview of the literature	2
A theoretical framework for the use of music therapy in the treatment of selective mutism in young children: Multiple case study research	2
The application of the Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA) within a group music therapy program	2
Shaping the digital space: Exploring relationships in online music therapy session delivery	2
Potential spaces: Supporting the development of relationships between classroom practitioners and children with complex needs in Belarus through music therapy consultation	2
“No, I Guess it’s kind of Sensitive” - Communication patterns in a music listening group with older men	2
Moments of fun: Narratives of children’s experiences of music therapy in mental health care	2
Musical improvisation: A mixed methods study on social interactions in younger and older adults	2
“The room is a mess”: Exploring the co-creation of space for attunement dynamics between an autistic child and a non-autistic music therapist	2