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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	19
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	15
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	15
Epilogue	13
Qualitative analysis of university lecturers’ understanding and approaches of sight-reading teaching in China	11
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	11
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	11
Ecosocial approach to music education	11
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	9
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	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	8
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	7
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	7
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	7
Echoes of childhood: songs that have left their mark on future early childhood educators	7
Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	6
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	6
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	6
Discourse analysis in music education: a systematic review	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
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	5
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	5
The unicorns of elementary schools: male elementary general music teachers	5
Editorial	5

Social relatedness influences student retention in Chinese university ensembles: the interplay of teacher-student relatedness, peer relatedness, and teacher differentiation	5
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	5
From practising to practice; towards a practice model for self-regulated learning	5
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
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Children's experiences of choral singing: evaluating reflexive choir journals with primary school pupils	4
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	4
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	4
Embracing complexity in music education: rethinking practice, knowledge, and learning	4
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	4
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
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Exploring preservice elementary teachers’ self-reports of movement-based instruction in the general music classroom: an inductive thematic analysis	3
Young people healing and growing in trauma-informed positive music education	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
Towards a transformative music education: a collaborative autoethnography in the Spanish university context	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
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	3
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	3
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	2
Female conservatoire students’ voices regarding futures in the male-dominated world of western classical music: the communicative or controlled mirroring pianist body?	2
School off, music on: dimensions of young adult’s musical practices after finishing school	2
Decolonising the rhythm curriculum: integrating global groove practices in undergraduate aural skills	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2
Human rights education through collaborative songwriting: a workshop for music teacher education in Chile	2
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	2
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	2
Editorial	2
OOO, Guerrilla metaphysics, and the allure of children’s musical play	2
Neoliberalism and intercultural popular music education: Chinese and Korean undergraduate students in South Korea	2
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	2
Preparing for infants’ musicking – a tracking case study of a Chinese family's musical environment	2
Sound qualities in Early Childhood Education: an analysis of textbooks in Spain	2
Embodied pedagogy for strings: preparing and performing Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonata no. 2 op. 27 – a journey of unexpected discoveries	2
Conceptualising instrumental practice among Chinese American children, their parents, and teachers: self-regulation, cultural mediation, and filial piety	2
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
In-service teacher training for Cantonese opera teaching in Hong Kong schools	2
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce	2
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students	2
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
The relationship between musical development and social inclusion in small-group instrumental teaching	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2

Blurred lines and queered spaces: an examination of teachers’ visions of multi-styles curricula	1
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	1
Intercultural dialogue and the mobilisation of aural skills	1
Music education research special issue: posthuman perspectives for music education	1
Reconfiguring music education for future-making: how?	1
Exploring the perspectives of Asian American parents on their musically talented children in instrumental education	1
No justice, no peace: an arts-based project with a college choir	1
On decolonising music diversity in/and higher education	1
Effects of an intercultural music course on adolescents’ intergroup attitudes in southwest China	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Posthuman Perspectives for Music Education	1
Recognising intra-actions of music and pupil	1
Digital music and critical music literacy	1
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	1
Centring perspectives of disabled children in music education research	1
Reverberations in music education: What does sound ‘do’ in our learning spaces ?	1
Empowering piano students of Western classical music: challenging teaching and learning of musical interpretation in higher education	1
Call For PapersRIME 2025 The 14th International Conference for Research in Music Education (April 22–25 2025, Online)	1
Understanding virtual rehearsal participation through self-determination theory	1
Teacher beliefs about student agency in whole-class playing	1
Through the lens of Bourdieu: an integral literature review on bringing gender neutrality to the musical instrument selection process	1
The instrumental practice goal realization inventory: from intention to evaluation	1
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	1
‘It’s music and we came to play instruments’: teaching for engagement in classroom music	1
Thinking ahead: the use of mental training in young violinists’ skill development	1
What factors influence whether and how Norwegian kindergarten teachers sing with children? Results of a national survey	1
The parent role in Suzuki music lessons: experiences and perspectives shared by novice Suzuki parents	1
Methodological shifts and departures in music education research: embracing complexity with diffraction, intra-action, and agentic assemblages	1
Crossing borders and generations: examining the relationship between music engagement and immigration generation	1
Exploring Nordic approaches to advanced instrumental music pedagogy: insights from ethnographic fieldwork	1
Review of music literacy strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis	1
Reconceptualising literature reviews in Ghanaian music theory and composition: a path toward academic rigour and creative engagement	1
Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out	1
University students facilitating hip hop in a community engagement project: experiences and perceptions	1
Music teachers at the crossroads: navigating the curriculum as plan and lived	1
Motivational factors for sustained participation in a traditional Chinese orchestra among primary school students: a self-determination theory perspective	1
Editorial	1
An International quartet of voices: sharing songs and culture beyond borders	1
Teaching and learning in music education – a meta-synthesis	1
Sound possibilities: listening for the new in early years music-making practices	1
Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education	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
Supporting musical affordances for desistance and resistance in youth justice settings	1
Facilitators and barriers to the Music College Entrance Examination among Chinese ethnic minority students	1