OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Music Education 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Music teacher identity: Reassessing perceptions during a global pandemic	30
The effects of the pandemic on music teaching in schools in Quebec (Canada) in the spring and fall of 2020	18
Practitioner–researchers’ views of disability education project for children with severe multiple disabilities: A first-person group study using collaborative autoethnography	15
Creating affordances for families with young children: Experiences of music education in social work	13
Exploring the career development issues of young musicians through participation in music festivals: A case study of the Youth Music Culture Guangdong Festival	12
Effect of music education based on Edwin E. Gordon’s Theory on children’s developmental music aptitude and social emotional learning skills	10
Children’s feelings about piano performances across a year of study	9
Music literacy in higher education in Mexico: Current conceptions and teaching practices	9
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
The development of formative assessment rubrics for enhancing students’ performance on Thai percussion instruments	8
Rethinking “musical excellence” from a decolonial perspective: Disruptive autobiographical experiences among doctoral scholars	8
Exploring musician-educators’ reflections on a collaborative cross-cultural music making encounter in Singapore	8
A survey research study of music education faculty: Demographics as related to indicators of job satisfaction and stress	8
An online community of interns: Examining the music student teaching seminar in a virtual setting	8
Achievements, difficulties, and goals of the Spanish Society for Music Education (SEM-EE): A phenomenological study	7
Improvising for the test: Influences of graded music examinations on the teaching and learning of improvisation within studio lessons	7
A phenomenological study of music education majors’ vocational identity development during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The problem of secondary school music enrolments: Tensions between relevance, engagement and improving musical skills and knowledge	7
Music studies as cultural capital accumulation and its impact on music genre preferences	6
Digital musicianship in post-pandemic popular music education	6
The complexities of meaningful experiential learning: Exploring reflective practice in music performance studies	6
Collegiate musicians’ experiences with democratic rehearsal procedures	6
Can the professional study of a musical instrument be associated with the development of cognitive processes? A meta-analytic study	6

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	6
Inclusive music teacher education: Valuing breadth and diversity through authentic immersive experiences	5
Korean preservice music teachers’ perceptions of blended learning in music education course	5
Preservice music educators’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching students with disabilities following special education coursework: A comparative mixed-methods study	5
Collaborative composing with inclusive music ensembles: What attitude, knowledge and skills do composers need?	5
Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model in choir ensemble: Perspective form choirmasters in Klang Valley, Malaysia	5
Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe	5
Mobile learning as deep learning: Content analysis of in-service primary school music teachers’ lesson plans in mobile music creation	5
Online curriculum marketplaces and music education: A critical analysis of music activities on TeachersPayTeachers.com	5
Teaching free improvisation: European higher music education teachers’ conceptual tools	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
Towards a relational model of musical knowledge: Findings from a Belfast-based case study	4
Teaching artists or live performers? Early careers after a Jazz Master’s graduation in French-speaking Switzerland	4
The effect of collective sight-singing before melodic dictation: A pilot study	4
Creativity, agency, and stability: Perceptions of Canadian musicians working across the cultural domains	4
The mystery of discrepancies of piano education for children in China: How social classes affect musical parenting of parents	4
Perspectives of international teaching assistants on working in music disciplines in American higher education	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
It’s about time: An examination of the importance of timing on positivity of preservice music educators’ teaching reflections	4
Technology-enhanced creativity in K-12 music education: A scoping review	4
Bridging the Digital Divide: Distance music learning among older adult musicians	3
‘We hear with our eyes!’ Unlocking tacit knowledge about multisensory music performing	3
Music majors’ self-regulated learning (SRL) of music practice in China: Two case studies based on the SRL microanalysis	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
Curriculum and training analysis of the music degrees in Colombia	3
Pre-college piano teaching practice in China and the United States: An international comparative study from the piano teachers’ perspectives	3
Work-based placements in European higher music education institutions	3
Effects of straw phonation on choral acoustic and perceptual measures after an acclimation period	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
Antiquity in the history of music: A critical review of the music textbooks for secondary education in Spain	3
Creative musical activities in early childhood education: An analysis of teaching practices	3
Encouraging creativity through music improvisation activities: Pre-service primary general teacher-students’ reflections and beliefs	3
Exploring synergy in a mobile learning model for piano playing ornaments exercise with local musical heritage	3
High-pressure in music education: Understanding the phenomenon and empowering students	3
Poverty, adolescent males, and singing: A profile of schools in Bogotá, Colombia	3
Learning collective free music improvisation as a socio-communicative endeavor: Preservice teachers’ journey in a teacher preparation course in Singapore	3
Trauma-sensitive teaching: Supporting refugee students through music education	3
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	3