OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Musicae Scientiae is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	42
Music performance anxiety: Insights into primary and secondary instruments	27
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	23
Examining the CRAFT program’s impact on student musicians’ well-being compared to controls	14
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Music performance anxiety and psychological flourishing in Chinese music students: Mediating and moderating roles of self-efficacy and teacher–student relationships	11
Closed-loop musical stimulation: Current status and prospects for research	11
Listening back in time: Today’s listeners recognize selected historical expressive connotations in 19th-century music	10
Analysis from multiple perspectives (AMP): Applying decision hygiene to analysis of musical structure	10
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	9
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	9
The influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	9
Performers in a pandemic: A mixed-methods study of university opera singers, pianists, and athletes during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	8
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	7
Measuring the immersive music listening experience: Convergence of online and laboratory data	7
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists	7
Live music in the ICU: A qualitative study of music students’ perspectives	7
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	7
The ageing musician: Evidence of a downwards trend in song tempo as a function of artist age	7
Pain catastrophizing in music students: Examining its relationship with psychological inflexibility and perfectionism	6
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	6
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	6
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	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
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	6
Exploring the nature of music-evoked autobiographical memories in healthy aging: A mixed-methods study	5
Study addiction versus obsessive passion: Individual vulnerabilities and problematic behaviours among young musicians	5
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	5
Personalised affect-regulation playlists: A pre-registered experimental test of the iso principle in the general population	5
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	5
Performance profiling: A systematic approach to the enhancement of music practice and peak performance	5
Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	5
Music in later life: Musical leisure, perceived benefits, and life satisfaction among older Koreans	5
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	5
Book Review: Raymond A. R. MacDonald and Graeme B. Wilson. The art of becoming: How group improvisation works	4
Music listening as emotion regulation: Associations with other emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety	4
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	4
Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings	4
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	4