OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Musicae Scientiae is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	29
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	17
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	15
Perception and learning of relative pitch by musicians using the vibrotactile mode	15
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
The influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	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	12
Afro-Colombian internal migration and participatory music: Ethnically and politically charged religious festivals in Bogota	11
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	10
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	10
Live music in the ICU: A qualitative study of music students’ perspectives	9
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	8
Life satisfaction and adolescent music making: A comparison of youth choirs and bands in Spain	7
Thanks to reviewers	7
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	6
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	6
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists	6
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	6
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	6
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	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
Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample	5
Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	5

Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	4
Performance profiling: A systematic approach to the enhancement of music practice and peak performance	4
Promoting prosociality in Colombia: Is music more effective than other cultural interventions?	4
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	4
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	4
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	4
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	3
Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening	3
Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music	3
Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings	3
Please unmute your microphone: Comparing the effectiveness of remote versus in-person percussion training	3
How secure memorization promotes expression: A longitudinal case study of performing Chopin’s Barcarolle, Op. 60	3
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch	3
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	3
Book Review: Raymond A. R. MacDonald and Graeme B. Wilson. The art of becoming: How group improvisation works	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Music listening as emotion regulation: Associations with other emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety	3