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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing teachers’ perspectives on giving music lessons remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown period	43
Prevalence and predictors of music performance anxiety in adolescent learners: Contributions of individual, task-related and environmental factors	21
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	15
The dynamics of musical participation	12
A PRISMA review of research on music practice	12
The benefits of participation in a choir and an exercise group on older adults’ wellbeing in a naturalistic setting	12
Fans of Violent Music: The Role of Passion in Positive and Negative Emotional Experience	11
The influence of music training on motoric inhibition in German preschool children	10
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	8
Is music listening an effective intervention for reducing anxiety? A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies	8
A systematic review of music-induced substance craving	8
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
Promoting prosociality in Colombia: Is music more effective than other cultural interventions?	7
The role of personality and self-efficacy in music students’ health-promoting behaviours	7
Music students’ experienced workload in higher education: A systematic review and recommendations for good practice	7
Can perseverance of effort become maladaptive? Study addiction moderates the relationship between this component of grit and well-being among music academy students	7
Individual differences in music reward sensitivity influence the perception of emotions represented by music	7
Listening to music to cope with everyday stressors	7
Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account	6
The social impact of music making	5
Characterizing prototypical musical instrument timbres with timbre trait profiles	5
Affective responses to European art music by Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews: A cross-ethnic study	5
Tell me what you see: An exploratory investigation of visual mental imagery evoked by music	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
Musical communities in the society of captives: Exploring the impact of music making on the social world of prison	4
Quality of network support for the deliberate practice of popular musicians	4
Musical features that aid sleep	4
Everyday crying over music: A survey	4
Individual differences in autism traits, personality, and emotional responsiveness to music in the general population	4
Embodiment in composition: 4E theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from a case study	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
Validation of the Chinese Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale and its Application in Mainland China	3
Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	3
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	3
The effects of a multimodal music program on young children’s facial expressions during controlled singing tasks	3
Identifying individual vulnerabilities and problematic behaviors hindering musicians’ development: Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder versus study addiction	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Student perceptions of the classroom environment, student characteristics, and motivation for music lessons at secondary school	3
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	3
Coordinating free improvisation: An integrative framework for the study of collective improvisation	3
Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: The Effect of Exposure on Ratings of Unfamiliar Musical Chords	3