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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	32
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	18
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	16
The influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	15
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	15
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	14
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	13
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Live music in the ICU: A qualitative study of music students’ perspectives	11
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	11
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	11
Life satisfaction and adolescent music making: A comparison of youth choirs and bands in Spain	10
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists	8
Thanks to reviewers	8
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	7
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	7
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	7
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	7
Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	6
Validation of the abbreviated version of the Profile of Musical Perception Skills (Mini-PROMS) in a Spanish sample of musicians and non-musicians	6
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
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	5
Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample	5

Music listening as emotion regulation: Associations with other emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety	4
Book Review: Raymond A. R. MacDonald and Graeme B. Wilson. The art of becoming: How group improvisation works	4
Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	4
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	4
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	4
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	4
Choose your own adventure: Vocal jazz improvisation, conceptual metaphor, and cognitive embodiment	3
Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Passion, music, and psychological well-being	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
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	3
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	3
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch	3
Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening	3
How secure memorization promotes expression: A longitudinal case study of performing Chopin’s Barcarolle, Op. 60	3
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement	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
Emotionality and performance: An emotion-regulation approach to music performance anxiety	2
Book Review: Ernst Kurth, Music psychology	2
A regularization algorithm for local key detection	2
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ)	2
Dynamic Attending in percussionists and wind players	2
Editorial	2
Unifying concert research and science outreach	2
Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo	2
Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists	2
Self-consciousness and trait anxiety influence music performance in high-pressure situations	1
Assessing aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or less: A comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9	1
Auditory imagery ability influences accuracy when singing with altered auditory feedback	1
A phrase in a loop: A rethink of verbatim repetition in the speech-to-song illusion and a new approach to the study of involuntary auditory imagery	1
The social impact of music making	1
Maria Manturzewska’s model of the lifespan development of professional musicians in the light of recent research and cultural changes	1
Musical activities in preschool education: A cross-cultural comparative study	1
“A choir is a social organism that needs human contact.” Conducting a choir during the COVID-19 lockdown period	1
Blues-based stigma songwriting with adults on an acute mental health inpatient unit: A cluster-randomized trial and reflection	1
Expressive semitones: Music students’ perceptual preferences for melodic intonation on the violin	1
Book Review: Aaron Williamon, Jane Ginsborg, Rosie Perkins, and George Waddell. Performing music research: Methods in music education, psychology, and performance science	1
Is music listening an effective intervention for reducing anxiety? A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies	1
Fugue for Four Voices: Building narratives through music behind bars	1
Guest Editorial	1
Tempo versus average rates of harmonic rhythm in popular music: A study of three corpora	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
Have we sold our souls to the drum machine? A historical analysis of tempo stability in Western music recordings	1
The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender	1
Music listening according to the iso principle modulates affective state	1
Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance	1
Listen Up: A case study examination of focused listening	1

The evolution of musicality and cross-domain co-evolutionary interactions	1
A systematic review of music-induced substance craving	1