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

Article	Citations
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	39
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	20
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	20
Examining the CRAFT program’s impact on student musicians’ well-being compared to controls	19
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Closed-loop musical stimulation: Current status and prospects for research	19
Analysis from multiple perspectives (AMP): Applying decision hygiene to analysis of musical structure	15
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	12
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	11
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Performers in a pandemic: A mixed-methods study of university opera singers, pianists, and athletes during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
The influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	8
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	8
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	8
Live music in the ICU: A qualitative study of music students’ perspectives	7
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	7
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
Measuring the immersive music listening experience: Convergence of online and laboratory data	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
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	6
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	6
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	5
Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	5

Performance profiling: A systematic approach to the enhancement of music practice and peak performance	5
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	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
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	5
Exploring the nature of music-evoked autobiographical memories in healthy aging: A mixed-methods study	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
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
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	4
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	4