OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Music Education Research 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Epilogue	29
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	23
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	13
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	12
Ecosocial approach to music education	11
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	10
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	10
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	9
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	8
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	8
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	7
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	7
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	7
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	7
Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	6
Examining online video-based professional development for music teachers	6
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	6
Editorial	6
The subject ‘music’ from inside versus outside the music teaching profession: a comparative case study on the views of music and non-music primary education teachers in Spain	6
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	5
Piano learning in the context of schooling during China’s ‘Piano craze’ and beyond: motivations and pathways	5
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	5
Improvisation in traditional music: learning practices and principles	5
Let’s play together: teacher perspectives on collaborative chamber music instruction	5
The unicorns of elementary schools: male elementary general music teachers	5

Entrepreneurial identity formation through musical identity formation	4
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	4
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	4
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	4
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
Globalization, nationalism, and music education in the twenty-first century in Greater China Globalization, nationalism, and music education in the twenty-first century in Greater China	4
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	4
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	3
Towards decolonising university music education in Nigeria	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	3
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	3
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
Preparing for infants’ musicking – a tracking case study of a Chinese family's musical environment	2
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students	2
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	2
Perceptions of values and influential sources of creativity, music types, and music activities in school music learning: a study of students in Changsha, China	2
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	2
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	2
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	2
Embodied pedagogy for strings: preparing and performing Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonata no. 2 op. 27 – a journey of unexpected discoveries	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2
Sound qualities in Early Childhood Education: an analysis of textbooks in Spain	2
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	2
Empowering piano students of Western classical music: challenging teaching and learning of musical interpretation in higher education	1
The significance of music in early childhood education and care of toddlers in Finland: an extensive observational study	1
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	1
Facilitators and barriers to the Music College Entrance Examination among Chinese ethnic minority students	1
OOO, Guerrilla metaphysics, and the allure of children’s musical play	1
Centring perspectives of disabled children in music education research	1
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	1
Methodological shifts and departures in music education research: embracing complexity with diffraction, intra-action, and agentic assemblages	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Posthuman Perspectives for Music Education	1
Through the lens of Bourdieu: an integral literature review on bringing gender neutrality to the musical instrument selection process	1
Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out	1
The parent role in Suzuki music lessons: experiences and perspectives shared by novice Suzuki parents	1
Intercultural dialogue and the mobilisation of aural skills	1
Becoming musicians: learning strategies among Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in the Galilee region	1
How inclusive are our music classrooms? A theoretical model and case study from a preschool class of a mainstream private nursery school in Cyprus	1

Crossing borders and generations: examining the relationship between music engagement and immigration generation	1
Supporting musical affordances for desistance and resistance in youth justice settings	1
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce	1
Reverberations in music education: What does sound ‘do’ in our learning spaces ?	1
Sound possibilities: listening for the new in early years music-making practices	1
Call For PapersRIME 2025 The 14th International Conference for Research in Music Education (April 22–25 2025, Online)	1
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	1
Effects of an intercultural music course on adolescents’ intergroup attitudes in southwest China	1
Recognising intra-actions of music and pupil	1
On decolonising music diversity in/and higher education	1
Policy and leadership discourses in Sweden’s Art and Music Schools: the inclusion of refugee children	1
Review of music literacy strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis	1
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	1
Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education	1
Train noise as music: an exploration of audio-graphic interpretations elicited by music students and non-musicians	1
Exploring Nordic approaches to advanced instrumental music pedagogy: insights from ethnographic fieldwork	1
Blurred lines and queered spaces: an examination of teachers’ visions of multi-styles curricula	1
Digital music and critical music literacy	1
‘It’s music and we came to play instruments’: teaching for engagement in classroom music	1
An International quartet of voices: sharing songs and culture beyond borders	1
Thinking ahead: the use of mental training in young violinists’ skill development	1