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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing teachers’ perspectives on giving music lessons remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown period	41
Prevalence and predictors of music performance anxiety in adolescent learners: Contributions of individual, task-related and environmental factors	20
Processes and Experiences of Creative Cognition in Seven Western Classical Composers	15
Mindfulness for musicians: A mixed methods study investigating the effects of 8-week mindfulness courses on music students at a leading conservatoire	13
Affective priming with musical chords is influenced by pitch numerosity	13
The dynamics of musical participation	11
Fans of Violent Music: The Role of Passion in Positive and Negative Emotional Experience	11
The benefits of participation in a choir and an exercise group on older adults’ wellbeing in a naturalistic setting	11
A PRISMA review of research on music practice	10
The influence of different levels of musical fit on the efficiency of audio-visual advertising	10
The influence of music training on motoric inhibition in German preschool children	9
Cultural logics and modes of consumption: Unraveling the multiplicity of symbolic distinctions among concert audiences	8
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	8
A systematic review of music-induced substance craving	8
The role of personality and self-efficacy in music students’ health-promoting behaviours	7
Promoting prosociality in Colombia: Is music more effective than other cultural interventions?	7
The Japanese translation of the Gold-MSI: Adaptation and validation of the self-report questionnaire of musical sophistication	7
Mind-wandering during contemporary live music: An exploratory study	7
Is music listening an effective intervention for reducing anxiety? A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies	7
Individual differences in music reward sensitivity influence the perception of emotions represented by music	7
Music students’ experienced workload in higher education: A systematic review and recommendations for good practice	6
Listening to music to cope with everyday stressors	6
Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account	6
Affective responses to European art music by Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews: A cross-ethnic study	5
The social impact of music making	5

Tell me what you see: An exploratory investigation of visual mental imagery evoked by music	5
Can perseverance of effort become maladaptive? Study addiction moderates the relationship between this component of grit and well-being among music academy students	5
Using Psycholinguistic Inquiry and Content Analysis to Investigate Emotions in Memories of Musical Experiences	4
Perception and learning of relative pitch by musicians using the vibrotactile mode	4
Characterizing prototypical musical instrument timbres with timbre trait profiles	4
Musical communities in the society of captives: Exploring the impact of music making on the social world of prison	4
Individual differences in autism traits, personality, and emotional responsiveness to music in the general population	4
Everyday crying over music: A survey	4
Quality of network support for the deliberate practice of popular musicians	4
Embodiment in composition: 4E theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from a case study	3
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	3
Validation of the Chinese Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale and its Application in Mainland China	3
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	3
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Video feedback and the choice of strategies of college-level guitarists during individual practice	3
Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: The Effect of Exposure on Ratings of Unfamiliar Musical Chords	3
Musical features that aid sleep	3
The effects of a multimodal music program on young children’s facial expressions during controlled singing tasks	3
Coordinating free improvisation: An integrative framework for the study of collective improvisation	3
Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	3
Afro-Colombian internal migration and participatory music: Ethnically and politically charged religious festivals in Bogota	2
Choose your own adventure: Vocal jazz improvisation, conceptual metaphor, and cognitive embodiment	2
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	2
Hearing functional harmony in jazz: A perceptual study of music-theoretical accounts of extended tonality	2
Expert pianists’ practice perspectives: A production and listening study	2
Fugue for Four Voices: Building narratives through music behind bars	2
Superior pitch identification ability is associated with better mental rotation performance	2
Musical identities in action: Embodied, situated, and dynamic	2
Identifying songs from their piano-driven opening chords	2
Student perceptions of the classroom environment, student characteristics, and motivation for music lessons at secondary school	2
Passion, music, and psychological well-being	2
“A reward rather than a right”: Facilitators’ perspectives on the place of music in Norwegian prison exceptionalism	2
Lifetime musical training and cognitive performance in a memory clinic population: A cross-sectional study	2
The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender	1
Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance	1
Layers and dynamics of social impact: Musicians’ perspectives on participatory music activities	1
Pitch Syntax as an Evolutionary Prelingual Innovation	1
Associations between music training and the dynamics of writing music by hand	1
In Defence of the Familiar: Understanding Conservatism in Concert Selection Amongst Classical Music Audiences	1
Recovery from memory failure when recalling a memorized performance: The role of musical structure and performance cues	1
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	1
Identifying individual vulnerabilities and problematic behaviors hindering musicians’ development: Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder versus study addiction	1
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement	1
Music-based discharge, healthy music use, and unhealthy music use explain adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies in adults hospitalized with cancer: A cross-sectional investigation	1
Maria Manturzewska (1930–2020)	1
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch	1
Induced empathy moderates emotional responses to expressive qualities in music	1
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: I. Acoustical beating	1
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	1

Singing at menopause: A systematic review with pedagogical implications	1
The impact of biographical information about a composer on emotional responses to their music	1
Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music	1
Auditory imagery in congenital amusia	1
Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample	1