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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing teachers’ perspectives on giving music lessons remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown period	50
Is music listening an effective intervention for reducing anxiety? A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies	17
A PRISMA review of research on music practice	15
The dynamics of musical participation	14
A systematic review of music-induced substance craving	12
Mind-wandering during contemporary live music: An exploratory study	11
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	10
Can perseverance of effort become maladaptive? Study addiction moderates the relationship between this component of grit and well-being among music academy students	9
Listening to music to cope with everyday stressors	9
The Japanese translation of the Gold-MSI: Adaptation and validation of the self-report questionnaire of musical sophistication	8
Promoting prosociality in Colombia: Is music more effective than other cultural interventions?	8
The role of personality and self-efficacy in music students’ health-promoting behaviours	8
Music students’ experienced workload in higher education: A systematic review and recommendations for good practice	8
Characterizing prototypical musical instrument timbres with timbre trait profiles	7
Individual differences in music reward sensitivity influence the perception of emotions represented by music	7
Tell me what you see: An exploratory investigation of visual mental imagery evoked by music	7
Musical identities in action: Embodied, situated, and dynamic	7
Musical features that aid sleep	6
Perception and learning of relative pitch by musicians using the vibrotactile mode	6
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Identifying individual vulnerabilities and problematic behaviors hindering musicians’ development: Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder versus study addiction	6
Everyday crying over music: A survey	5
Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	5
The social impact of music making	5
Individual differences in autism traits, personality, and emotional responsiveness to music in the general population	5

Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	4
Choose your own adventure: Vocal jazz improvisation, conceptual metaphor, and cognitive embodiment	4
Passion, music, and psychological well-being	4
Student perceptions of the classroom environment, student characteristics, and motivation for music lessons at secondary school	4
Video feedback and the choice of strategies of college-level guitarists during individual practice	4
Musical communities in the society of captives: Exploring the impact of music making on the social world of prison	4
The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender	4
Coordinating free improvisation: An integrative framework for the study of collective improvisation	4
Musical preferences of teenagers and adults: Evidence from a Spanish-speaking sample	3
Identifying songs from their piano-driven opening chords	3
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	3
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	3
Induced empathy moderates emotional responses to expressive qualities in music	3
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement	3
The impact of biographical information about a composer on emotional responses to their music	3
Musical activities in preschool education: A cross-cultural comparative study	3
Hearing functional harmony in jazz: A perceptual study of music-theoretical accounts of extended tonality	3
The effects of a multimodal music program on young children’s facial expressions during controlled singing tasks	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	3
Expert pianists’ practice perspectives: A production and listening study	2
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	2
Superior pitch identification ability is associated with better mental rotation performance	2
Auditory imagery in congenital amusia	2
Recovery from memory failure when recalling a memorized performance: The role of musical structure and performance cues	2
Afro-Colombian internal migration and participatory music: Ethnically and politically charged religious festivals in Bogota	2
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	2
Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music	2
“A reward rather than a right”: Facilitators’ perspectives on the place of music in Norwegian prison exceptionalism	2
Becoming the right musician for the job: Versatility, connectedness, and professional identities during personalized, online music-making in hospital maternity wards	2
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: I. Acoustical beating	2
Fugue for Four Voices: Building narratives through music behind bars	2
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	2
Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample	1
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	1
Singing at menopause: A systematic review with pedagogical implications	1
Layers and dynamics of social impact: Musicians’ perspectives on participatory music activities	1
Maria Manturzewska (1930–2020)	1
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch	1
Tempo versus average rates of harmonic rhythm in popular music: A study of three corpora	1
The dark side of optimism: Musical dreams, belief, and gambling	1
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	1
Lyrics and melodies: Do both affect emotions equally? A replication and extension of Ali and Peynircioğlu (2006)	1
Editorial	1
Listen Up: A case study examination of focused listening	1
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
The missing fundamentals of harmonic theory: Chord roots and their ambiguity in arrangements of jazz standards	1
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	1
Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo	1
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	1

Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance	1
Changes in the social fabric of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia based on an analysis of their sound environments	1
Associations between music training and the dynamics of writing music by hand	1
Emotionality and performance: An emotion-regulation approach to music performance anxiety	1