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Papers

(The median citation count of Musicae Scientiae 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	32
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	16
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	15
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	14
The influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	13
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	11
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	11
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	11
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	10
Life satisfaction and adolescent music making: A comparison of youth choirs and bands in Spain	8
Live music in the ICU: A qualitative study of music students’ perspectives	8
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	7
Measuring the immersive music listening experience: Convergence of online and laboratory data	7
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists	7
Thanks to reviewers	7
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	6
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	6
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	6
Exploring the nature of music-evoked autobiographical memories in healthy aging: A mixed-methods study	5
Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	5
Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample	5
Validation of the abbreviated version of the Profile of Musical Perception Skills (Mini-PROMS) in a Spanish sample of musicians and non-musicians	5
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	4

Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	4
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	4
Performance profiling: A systematic approach to the enhancement of music practice and peak performance	4
Music listening as emotion regulation: Associations with other emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety	4
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	4
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	3
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	3
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch	3
A new method of exploring affect dynamics in music: A psychometric model based on stochastic processes	3
Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	3
Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Please unmute your microphone: Comparing the effectiveness of remote versus in-person percussion training	3
Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music	3
Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings	3
Book Review: Raymond A. R. MacDonald and Graeme B. Wilson. The art of becoming: How group improvisation works	3
Music-related emotions: Attributions and arousal of adolescents with and without borderline personality disorder traits	3
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement	2
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	2
Book Review: Ernst Kurth, Music psychology	2
Dynamic Attending in percussionists and wind players	2
Unifying concert research and science outreach	2
How secure memorization promotes expression: A longitudinal case study of performing Chopin’s Barcarolle, Op. 60	2
Editorial	2
Tracing change during music therapy for depression: Toward a markers-based understanding of communicative behaviors	2
The role of gender in emotional reactions elicited by music: Autonomic reactivity, facial expression, and self-reports	2
Passion, music, and psychological well-being	2
Choose your own adventure: Vocal jazz improvisation, conceptual metaphor, and cognitive embodiment	2
A regularization algorithm for local key detection	2
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ)	2
Musical activities in preschool education: A cross-cultural comparative study	1
Applying the networked flow model in a real-world music contest	1
Music making and music listening today: Challenges and opportunities	1
The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender	1
Blues-based stigma songwriting with adults on an acute mental health inpatient unit: A cluster-randomized trial and reflection	1
Can perseverance of effort become maladaptive? Study addiction moderates the relationship between this component of grit and well-being among music academy students	1
Guest Editorial	1
Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists	1
Emotionality and performance: An emotion-regulation approach to music performance anxiety	1
The social impact of music making	1
Assessing aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or less: A comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9	1
Expressive semitones: Music students’ perceptual preferences for melodic intonation on the violin	1
Listen Up: A case study examination of focused listening	1
Maria Manturzewska’s model of the lifespan development of professional musicians in the light of recent research and cultural changes	1
The evolution of musicality and cross-domain co-evolutionary interactions	1
Tempo versus average rates of harmonic rhythm in popular music: A study of three corpora	1
“A choir is a social organism that needs human contact.” Conducting a choir during the COVID-19 lockdown period	1
Fugue for Four Voices: Building narratives through music behind bars	1
Have we sold our souls to the drum machine? A historical analysis of tempo stability in Western music recordings	1
Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance	1

Self-consciousness and trait anxiety influence music performance in high-pressure situations	1
Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo	1