OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Music Education 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the career development issues of young musicians through participation in music festivals: A case study of the Youth Music Culture Guangdong Festival	21
Music literacy in higher education in Mexico: Current conceptions and teaching practices	19
Music teacher identity: Reassessing perceptions during a global pandemic	15
The effects of the pandemic on music teaching in schools in Quebec (Canada) in the spring and fall of 2020	14
Practitioner–researchers’ views of disability education project for children with severe multiple disabilities: A first-person group study using collaborative autoethnography	13
Creating affordances for families with young children: Experiences of music education in social work	11
Children’s feelings about piano performances across a year of study	10
Effect of music education based on Edwin E. Gordon’s Theory on children’s developmental music aptitude and social emotional learning skills	10
The development of formative assessment rubrics for enhancing students’ performance on Thai percussion instruments	9
Rethinking “musical excellence” from a decolonial perspective: Disruptive autobiographical experiences among doctoral scholars	8
Institutional change in higher music education: A quest for legitimacy	8
The development of music education philosophy in mainland China during 1990–2022: A corpus-based thematic review	8
Engaged pedagogy in teacher education: A literature review	8
A survey research study of music education faculty: Demographics as related to indicators of job satisfaction and stress	7
Exploring musician-educators’ reflections on a collaborative cross-cultural music making encounter in Singapore	7
The complexities of meaningful experiential learning: Exploring reflective practice in music performance studies	6
Digital musicianship in post-pandemic popular music education	6
Music studies as cultural capital accumulation and its impact on music genre preferences	6
Can the professional study of a musical instrument be associated with the development of cognitive processes? A meta-analytic study	6
Collegiate musicians’ experiences with democratic rehearsal procedures	6
The problem of secondary school music enrolments: Tensions between relevance, engagement and improving musical skills and knowledge	6
Achievements, difficulties, and goals of the Spanish Society for Music Education (SEM-EE): A phenomenological study	6
An online community of interns: Examining the music student teaching seminar in a virtual setting	6
Inclusive music teacher education: Valuing breadth and diversity through authentic immersive experiences	5
Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe	5

Collaborative composing with inclusive music ensembles: What attitude, knowledge and skills do composers need?	5
The influences of college life adaptation and career decision self-efficacy on career achievement stress: Focus on students majoring in piano performance in South Korea	5
On the quality of professional development in the United States: Examining music educators’ experiences, sentiments, and emotions	5
Korean preservice music teachers’ perceptions of blended learning in music education course	5
Towards a relational model of musical knowledge: Findings from a Belfast-based case study	4
The effect of collective sight-singing before melodic dictation: A pilot study	4
Teaching free improvisation: European higher music education teachers’ conceptual tools	4
Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model in choir ensemble: Perspective form choirmasters in Klang Valley, Malaysia	4
The mystery of discrepancies of piano education for children in China: How social classes affect musical parenting of parents	4
Creativity, agency, and stability: Perceptions of Canadian musicians working across the cultural domains	4
Preservice music educators’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching students with disabilities following special education coursework: A comparative mixed-methods study	4
Instructor experiences with online guitar lessons during the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	4
The evolution of the method of ‘oral and heart-to-heart teaching’ in contemporary times: Based on the observation of Shandong opera classroom	4
Technology-enhanced creativity in K-12 music education: A scoping review	4
Online curriculum marketplaces and music education: A critical analysis of music activities on TeachersPayTeachers.com	4
A comparative study of piano performance programs at university-level institutions in China and the United States: From current faculty members’ and students’ perspectives	4
Mobile learning as deep learning: Content analysis of in-service primary school music teachers’ lesson plans in mobile music creation	4
Teaching artists or live performers? Early careers after a Jazz Master’s graduation in French-speaking Switzerland	4
Perspectives of international teaching assistants on working in music disciplines in American higher education	3
Exploring synergy in a mobile learning model for piano playing ornaments exercise with local musical heritage	3
It’s about time: An examination of the importance of timing on positivity of preservice music educators’ teaching reflections	3
“Mistakes are just information”: A case study of a highly successful violin pedagogue	3
Learning collective free music improvisation as a socio-communicative endeavor: Preservice teachers’ journey in a teacher preparation course in Singapore	3
A structural equation model of preschool teacher candidates’ self-efficacy beliefs for music teaching: The role of academic and preschool teaching self-efficacy	3
Music majors’ self-regulated learning (SRL) of music practice in China: Two case studies based on the SRL microanalysis	3
Pre-college piano teaching practice in China and the United States: An international comparative study from the piano teachers’ perspectives	3
‘We hear with our eyes!’ Unlocking tacit knowledge about multisensory music performing	3
Poverty, adolescent males, and singing: A profile of schools in Bogotá, Colombia	3
Trauma-sensitive teaching: Supporting refugee students through music education	3
Bridging the Digital Divide: Distance music learning among older adult musicians	3
Effects of straw phonation on choral acoustic and perceptual measures after an acclimation period	3
Work-based placements in European higher music education institutions	3
High-pressure in music education: Understanding the phenomenon and empowering students	3
Patterns of engagement with professional development among in-service primary music teachers in China and their associations with teaching readiness, school identification, and job satisfaction: A lat	3
Creative musical activities in early childhood education: An analysis of teaching practices	3
Music performance anxiety: A study of anxiety predictors in higher education music students in Portugal	2
Exploring music learning needs of working-age individuals in Thailand	2
Extension of the 3 × 2 achievement goal model to university concert band performance	2
Finnish music class studies and extracurricular playing in promoting grit and sisu, the inner fortitude: Reconceptualizing sisu as a predecessor of flow, growth and flourishing	2
Sight-reading components across tonal and atonal environments in music: An exploratory analysis of performers’ self-assessed proficiency	2
Building an evaluation index system of musical collaborative capacity for China’s compulsory music education: Using a combined Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process approach	2
The effects of peer-assisted learning on rhythmic and melodic sight-reading in a middle school chorus	2
‘ Belonging, Being and Becoming ’: Supporting preschooler’s identity development through Musicking	2
Correlation of piano lesson success of music teacher candidates with their piano exam anxiety levels and their opinions on causes of anxiety	2
A case study: 30 elementary music education majors’ perceptions of preparedness, interest, and comfort teaching choir before and after taking a choral methods course	2
Learning strategies of video game music makers: Informal and school-based learning for online publication	2
Encouraging creativity through music improvisation activities: Pre-service primary general teacher-students’ reflections and beliefs	2
Antiquity in the history of music: A critical review of the music textbooks for secondary education in Spain	2
Analysis of cultural heritage in music didactic materials in Galicia	2
What and how? Or why and for whom? A content analysis of middle school general music literature	2

The impact of a music education program on meta-musical awareness, logical-mathematical, and notational skills in preschoolers	2
Preservice teachers’ experiences as first-time voice instructors	2
Instrument teachers’ practices, beliefs, and barriers regarding musical creativity: Exploring the creative process of interpretation	2
How popular music pedagogy is integrated in the diverse environment of international school education in China: A case study in Shanghai	2
Learner-centered pedagogy and student engagement in a virtual elementary instrumental music program	2
Creativity, autonomy and Dalcroze Eurhythmics: An arts practice exploration	2
Effects of focus of attention instructions on listeners’ evaluations of solo instrumental performance	2
Curriculum and training analysis of the music degrees in Colombia	2
Expanding the music circle through networked improvisation in an inclusive ensemble	2
Making interdisciplinary connections through music: A systematic review of studies in general schooling context in Turkey	2
Music education in the digital age: Challenges associated with sound homogenization in music aimed at adolescents	2
Bibliometric study of scientific production in music education from 2000 to 2022	1
How much is too much? Effects of unexpressive, expressive, and overly-expressive conducting on ensemble expressivity ratings	1
Becoming the music teacher: Stories of generalist teaching and teacher education in music	1
The learning experiences and musical proficiencies of formal and informal popular musicians in Malaysia	1
Playing by ear and the development of music skills at pre-school age	1
Innovative and disruptive pedagogies in music education: A systematic review of the literature	1
An historic divide: Understanding conservatories and schools of music and their place in Australian higher education	1
Unlocking sound: New trends and innovations in intonation education over the past decade	1
Music professionalism promoting gerotranscendence: An instrumental case study of healthcare musicians in an eldercare hospital	1
Children’s informal music learning: A phenomenological inquiry	1
Atheist public school choir directors and their views on religious music performance	1
Designing music education curriculum in a multicultural environment: Vocal training in China	1
The musical actions of mobile youth	1
Oboe educators’ perspectives on playing-related injury, Part I: Lived experience and perceptions surrounding injury	1
Collective and individual practices in popular music: Differences between semi-professionals and professionals in Austria and Germany	1
Understanding music teachers’ perceptions of themselves and their work: An Importance–Confidence Analysis	1
Gender equality discourse in classical music higher education: Women, individualisation, and change	1
Exploring music integration: Early childhood and elementary teacher practices	1
Investigating the moderating role of coping style on music performance anxiety and perfectionism	1
Ghanaian collegiate music students who play brass instruments’ music education experiences at the pre-tertiary level	1
Analyses of titles and authors from 50 years of ISME Research Commission manuscripts 1968 to 2018	1
The Music Practice Motivation Scale: An exploration of secondary instrumental music students’ motivation to practice	1
Negotiating queer voices: How five south African queer music educators negotiate their professional identity	1
Facing the challenges of the inclusion of visually impaired students: Music teacher’s perceptions	1
The inhibition of musicality: Perspectives of piano teachers in Malaysia and Singapore	1
The many ways of Puerto Rican community music	1
Autoethnographic narrative as a lens on life-long musician-teacher identity	1
Online music education for sustainable development: Analysis of music learning videos in e-Hakseupteo	1
Collective free improvisation in the Flemish general music classroom: Probing student’s lived experience through flow	1
Approaches to developing community: A survey of the perspectives of American female undergraduate prospective band directors	1
“It’s your body, it’s part of who you are!”: Influences upon collegiate vocalists’ performance self-efficacy beliefs	1
A portrait of self-regulated musical learning behaviors among rock musicians: Applications in music education	1
Music and mathematics: Key components and contributions of an integrated STEAM teaching approach	1
Developing the music listening skills test (MLST) for pre-school and elementary school teacher candidates	1
Oboe educators’ perspectives on playing-related injury, Part II: Barriers, solutions, and teaching practices	1
Does length of training period impact the effectiveness of reciprocal peer teaching in university group piano students?	1
The conservatory debated from a critical pedagogy perspective	1
Fishers of song: Music education and community in Andavadoaka, Madagascar	1
The ecology for fostering the musical creativity of students with intellectual disabilities	1
Development and Validation of The Anadolu University Music Perception Test	1
Adela and transformative learning: A Freirean perspective on a community music education project in Melbourne, Australia	1
Investigating the health and wellbeing of music students: Perspectives from schools of music in Switzerland and the UK	1
“I want to know more about the world”: A case study of international-mindedness as a means of professional development for music teachers in China	1
Music teachers’ perceptions of intercultural competence in Spain	1