OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	31
Music performance anxiety: Insights into primary and secondary instruments	24
Examining the CRAFT program’s impact on student musicians’ well-being compared to controls	22
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	20
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Music performance anxiety and psychological flourishing in Chinese music students: Mediating and moderating roles of self-efficacy and teacher–student relationships	15
Listening back in time: Today’s listeners recognize selected historical expressive connotations in 19th-century music	14
Analysis from multiple perspectives (AMP): Applying decision hygiene to analysis of musical structure	12
Closed-loop musical stimulation: Current status and prospects for research	12
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	12
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	10
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	10
The influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	9
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Performers in a pandemic: A mixed-methods study of university opera singers, pianists, and athletes during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	8
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	7
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists	7
Live music in the ICU: A qualitative study of music students’ perspectives	7
Measuring the immersive music listening experience: Convergence of online and laboratory data	7
The ageing musician: Evidence of a downwards trend in song tempo as a function of artist age	7
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	6
Pain catastrophizing in music students: Examining its relationship with psychological inflexibility and perfectionism	6
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	6
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	5

Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	5
Study addiction versus obsessive passion: Individual vulnerabilities and problematic behaviours among young musicians	5
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	5
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	5
Exploring the nature of music-evoked autobiographical memories in healthy aging: A mixed-methods study	5
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	5
Performance profiling: A systematic approach to the enhancement of music practice and peak performance	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
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	5
Personalised affect-regulation playlists: A pre-registered experimental test of the iso principle in the general population	5
Music in later life: Musical leisure, perceived benefits, and life satisfaction among older Koreans	5
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	4
Music listening as emotion regulation: Associations with other emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety	4
Music-related emotions: Attributions and arousal of adolescents with and without borderline personality disorder traits	4
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	4
Book Review: Raymond A. R. MacDonald and Graeme B. Wilson. The art of becoming: How group improvisation works	4
Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening	4
Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings	4
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	4
A new method of exploring affect dynamics in music: A psychometric model based on stochastic processes	4
Please unmute your microphone: Comparing the effectiveness of remote versus in-person percussion training	4
Exploring geographic and cultural differences in preferences for valence and arousal in music using regional music charts	3
How secure memorization promotes expression: A longitudinal case study of performing Chopin’s Barcarolle, Op. 60	3
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The reciprocal relationship between maternal infant-directed singing and infant gaze	3
Passion, music, and psychological well-being	3
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement	3
Editorial	2
A regularization algorithm for local key detection	2
Tracing change during music therapy for depression: Toward a markers-based understanding of communicative behaviors	2
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ)	2
Book Review: Ernst Kurth, Music psychology	2
Unifying concert research and science outreach	2
Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo	2
The impact of a commercial wearable tactile bass system (WTBS) on the emotions expressed by music: A comparative study of deaf and hearing individuals	2
Dynamic Attending in percussionists and wind players	2
The role of oxytocin in music interventions: A systematic review	2
The role of gender in emotional reactions elicited by music: Autonomic reactivity, facial expression, and self-reports	2
Guest Editorial	2
Music making and music listening today: Challenges and opportunities	1
Listen Up: A case study examination of focused listening	1
Relationship between singing and subjective well-being: The Singing Enjoyment Scale	1
Have we sold our souls to the drum machine? A historical analysis of tempo stability in Western music recordings	1
Musical activities in preschool education: A cross-cultural comparative study	1
Tempo versus average rates of harmonic rhythm in popular music: A study of three corpora	1
The thin line between easy on the ear and simplistic: An experimental study of the effects of musical repetition on aesthetic ratings and of their mediators	1
Maria Manturzewska’s model of the lifespan development of professional musicians in the light of recent research and cultural changes	1
“I always check if the bassoon is OK . . . it’s the last thing I do before sleep”: A phenomenological approach to the musician–instrument relationship and self-identity of professional classical music	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

Expressive semitones: Music students’ perceptual preferences for melodic intonation on the violin	1
“A choir is a social organism that needs human contact.” Conducting a choir during the COVID-19 lockdown period	1
Functional uses of music influence musically induced emotional episodes: An exploratory study of goal-directed mechanisms	1
Applying the networked flow model in a real-world music contest	1
The evolution of musicality and cross-domain co-evolutionary interactions	1
The unifying power of live music events: A systematic review of social outcomes for audience members	1
Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance	1
Blues-based stigma songwriting with adults on an acute mental health inpatient unit: A cluster-randomized trial and reflection	1
Assessing aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or less: A comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9	1
Emotionality and performance: An emotion-regulation approach to music performance anxiety	1
Gaze behavior of a cellist: From sight-reading to performance	1
Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists	1