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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	23
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	15
Epilogue	13
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	13
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	13
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	10
Ecosocial approach to music education	10
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	10
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	9
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	8
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	8
Qualitative analysis of university lecturers’ understanding and approaches of sight-reading teaching in China	7
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	7
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	7
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	7
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	7
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
Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	6
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	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
Editorial	6
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	5
The unicorns of elementary schools: male elementary general music teachers	5
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	5

Let’s play together: teacher perspectives on collaborative chamber music instruction	5
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	5
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	5
Improvisation in traditional music: learning practices and principles	5
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	4
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	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
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	3
Entrepreneurial identity formation through musical identity formation	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	3
Towards decolonising university music education in Nigeria	3
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Experiences during listening to music in school	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
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	2
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	2
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	2
Female conservatoire students’ voices regarding futures in the male-dominated world of western classical music: the communicative or controlled mirroring pianist body?	2
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	2
Train noise as music: an exploration of audio-graphic interpretations elicited by music students and non-musicians	2
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
Embodied pedagogy for strings: preparing and performing Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonata no. 2 op. 27 – a journey of unexpected discoveries	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
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
Editorial	2
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students	2
Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education	1
Empowering piano students of Western classical music: challenging teaching and learning of musical interpretation in higher education	1
Exploring Nordic approaches to advanced instrumental music pedagogy: insights from ethnographic fieldwork	1
Intercultural dialogue and the mobilisation of aural skills	1
OOO, Guerrilla metaphysics, and the allure of children’s musical play	1
Methodological shifts and departures in music education research: embracing complexity with diffraction, intra-action, and agentic assemblages	1
On decolonising music diversity in/and higher education	1
Music education research special issue: posthuman perspectives for music education	1
Motivational factors for sustained participation in a traditional Chinese orchestra among primary school students: a self-determination theory perspective	1
Facilitators and barriers to the Music College Entrance Examination among Chinese ethnic minority students	1

Through the lens of Bourdieu: an integral literature review on bringing gender neutrality to the musical instrument selection process	1
Review of music literacy strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis	1
Recognising intra-actions of music and pupil	1
Reverberations in music education: What does sound ‘do’ in our learning spaces ?	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
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
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce	1
The significance of music in early childhood education and care of toddlers in Finland: an extensive observational study	1
Becoming musicians: learning strategies among Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in the Galilee region	1
Teaching and learning in music education – a meta-synthesis	1
Call For PapersRIME 2025 The 14th International Conference for Research in Music Education (April 22–25 2025, Online)	1
Thinking ahead: the use of mental training in young violinists’ skill development	1
Effects of an intercultural music course on adolescents’ intergroup attitudes in southwest China	1
Supporting musical affordances for desistance and resistance in youth justice settings	1
The parent role in Suzuki music lessons: experiences and perspectives shared by novice Suzuki parents	1
Crossing borders and generations: examining the relationship between music engagement and immigration generation	1
Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out	1
Centring perspectives of disabled children in music education research	1
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Posthuman Perspectives for Music Education	1
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	1
Understanding virtual rehearsal participation through self-determination theory	1
Exploring the perspectives of Asian American parents on their musically talented children in instrumental education	1
Sound possibilities: listening for the new in early years music-making practices	1
‘It’s music and we came to play instruments’: teaching for engagement in classroom music	1
Digital music and critical music literacy	1
An International quartet of voices: sharing songs and culture beyond borders	1