OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Music Education Research 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	19
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	16
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	15
Epilogue	13
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
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
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	9
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	8
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
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	7
Echoes of childhood: songs that have left their mark on future early childhood educators	7
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	7
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	6
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	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
Discourse analysis in music education: a systematic review	6
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	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
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	5
Editorial	5
Social relatedness influences student retention in Chinese university ensembles: the interplay of teacher-student relatedness, peer relatedness, and teacher differentiation	5

Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	5
From practising to practice; towards a practice model for self-regulated learning	5
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	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
Children's experiences of choral singing: evaluating reflexive choir journals with primary school pupils	4
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
Embracing complexity in music education: rethinking practice, knowledge, and 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
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	3
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	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
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
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	3
Young people healing and growing in trauma-informed positive music education	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Exploring preservice elementary teachers’ self-reports of movement-based instruction in the general music classroom: an inductive thematic analysis	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	3
The relationship between musical development and social inclusion in small-group instrumental teaching	3