OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Music Education Research is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	17
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	15
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	14
Epilogue	13
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	11
Ecosocial approach to music education	10
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	10
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	9
Qualitative analysis of university lecturers’ understanding and approaches of sight-reading teaching in China	9
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	9
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
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	7
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	7
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	7
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
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
Echoes of childhood: songs that have left their mark on future early childhood educators	6
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	6
From practising to practice; towards a practice model for self-regulated learning	5
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	5
Social relatedness influences student retention in Chinese university ensembles: the interplay of teacher-student relatedness, peer relatedness, and teacher differentiation	5
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	5

Editorial	5
Improvisation in traditional music: learning practices and principles	5
The unicorns of elementary schools: male elementary general music teachers	5
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	4
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	4
Children's experiences of choral singing: evaluating reflexive choir journals with primary school pupils	3
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
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	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 to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	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
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	3
Human rights education through collaborative songwriting: a workshop for music teacher education in Chile	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Towards a transformative music education: a collaborative autoethnography in the Spanish university context	2
School off, music on: dimensions of young adult’s musical practices after finishing school	2
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	2
Decolonising the rhythm curriculum: integrating global groove practices in undergraduate aural skills	2
Female conservatoire students’ voices regarding futures in the male-dominated world of western classical music: the communicative or controlled mirroring pianist body?	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
The relationship between musical development and social inclusion in small-group instrumental teaching	2
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	2
Conceptualising instrumental practice among Chinese American children, their parents, and teachers: self-regulation, cultural mediation, and filial piety	2
Sound qualities in Early Childhood Education: an analysis of textbooks in Spain	2
In-service teacher training for Cantonese opera teaching in Hong Kong schools	2
Neoliberalism and intercultural popular music education: Chinese and Korean undergraduate students in South Korea	2
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
Embodied pedagogy for strings: preparing and performing Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonata no. 2 op. 27 – a journey of unexpected discoveries	2
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	2
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	2
Preparing for infants’ musicking – a tracking case study of a Chinese family's musical environment	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
Editorial	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2