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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Participatory Music Practitioners’ Skills, Experience and Pathways for Learning: Perspectives From Belgium and the UK	19
Effect of music education based on Edwin E. Gordon’s Theory on children’s developmental music aptitude and social emotional learning skills	18
Exploring the career development issues of young musicians through participation in music festivals: A case study of the Youth Music Culture Guangdong Festival	16
Practitioner–researchers’ views of disability education project for children with severe multiple disabilities: A first-person group study using collaborative autoethnography	14
Music literacy in higher education in Mexico: Current conceptions and teaching practices	14
Music teacher identity: Reassessing perceptions during a global pandemic	12
Creating affordances for families with young children: Experiences of music education in social work	11
The effects of the pandemic on music teaching in schools in Quebec (Canada) in the spring and fall of 2020	11
Institutional change in higher music education: A quest for legitimacy	10
Engaged pedagogy in teacher education: A literature review	10
The development of formative assessment rubrics for enhancing students’ performance on Thai percussion instruments	10
The development of music education philosophy in mainland China during 1990–2022: A corpus-based thematic review	9
Rethinking “musical excellence” from a decolonial perspective: Disruptive autobiographical experiences among doctoral scholars	9
A survey research study of music education faculty: Demographics as related to indicators of job satisfaction and stress	8
The problem of secondary school music enrolments: Tensions between relevance, engagement and improving musical skills and knowledge	8
Achievements, difficulties, and goals of the Spanish Society for Music Education (SEM-EE): A phenomenological study	8
Collegiate musicians’ experiences with democratic rehearsal procedures	8
Improvising for the test: Influences of graded music examinations on the teaching and learning of improvisation within studio lessons	8
Digital musicianship in post-pandemic popular music education	7
Trainee Teacher Motivations for Music Integration in UAE Primary Classrooms: A Theory of Planned Behaviour Study	7
Can the professional study of a musical instrument be associated with the development of cognitive processes? A meta-analytic study	7
A phenomenological study of music education majors’ vocational identity development during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
An online community of interns: Examining the music student teaching seminar in a virtual setting	7
Korean preservice music teachers’ perceptions of blended learning in music education course	6
Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe	6

Instructor experiences with online guitar lessons during the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	6
Collaborative composing with inclusive music ensembles: What attitude, knowledge and skills do composers need?	6
Creativity, agency, and stability: Perceptions of Canadian musicians working across the cultural domains	6
The evolution of the method of ‘oral and heart-to-heart teaching’ in contemporary times: Based on the observation of Shandong opera classroom	6
Inclusive music teacher education: Valuing breadth and diversity through authentic immersive experiences	6
Teaching free improvisation: European higher music education teachers’ conceptual tools	6
Mobile learning as deep learning: Content analysis of in-service primary school music teachers’ lesson plans in mobile music creation	6
Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model in choir ensemble: Perspective form choirmasters in Klang Valley, Malaysia	5
Towards a relational model of musical knowledge: Findings from a Belfast-based case study	5
Online curriculum marketplaces and music education: A critical analysis of music activities on TeachersPayTeachers.com	5
The effect of collective sight-singing before melodic dictation: A pilot study	5
Investigating Amateur Choirs in the United Kingdom as Sites of Musical Learning and Ambition	5
Preservice music educators’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching students with disabilities following special education coursework: A comparative mixed-methods study	5
“I seldom see an Asian face”: Experiences of East Asian International Students in American Music Education Degree Programs	5
Perspectives of international teaching assistants on working in music disciplines in American higher education	4
Perceptions of Trauma and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: A Multiple-Case Study of Three Chinese Music Teachers	4
Preservice Music Teachers’ Experiences in an Online Teaching Internship: A Qualitative Case Study	4
Editorial	4
High-pressure in music education: Understanding the phenomenon and empowering students	4
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	4
The mystery of discrepancies of piano education for children in China: How social classes affect musical parenting of parents	4
It’s Not What, It’s How: Quantity of Instructional Behaviors Are Not Necessarily Associated with Perceptions of Rapport in Preservice Music Teachers and Students	4
Work-based placements in European higher music education institutions	4
‘We hear with our eyes!’ Unlocking tacit knowledge about multisensory music performing	4
Envisioning Orff and Kodály Today: A Century of Possibilities Seized and Missed in Culturally Diverse Music Education	4
Music majors’ self-regulated learning (SRL) of music practice in China: Two case studies based on the SRL microanalysis	4
Teaching artists or live performers? Early careers after a Jazz Master’s graduation in French-speaking Switzerland	4
Technology-enhanced creativity in K-12 music education: A scoping review	4
Pre-college piano teaching practice in China and the United States: An international comparative study from the piano teachers’ perspectives	4
Poverty, adolescent males, and singing: A profile of schools in Bogotá, Colombia	4
A structural equation model of preschool teacher candidates’ self-efficacy beliefs for music teaching: The role of academic and preschool teaching self-efficacy	4
The Effect of Directed Practice Worksheets and Logs on Individual Practice and Performance Outcomes of Secondary Group-Piano Students	3
Integrating Music-Color Cross-Modal Correspondences in World Music Pedagogy: An Embedded Case Study for Chinese Traditional Music Appreciation	3
Encouraging creativity through music improvisation activities: Pre-service primary general teacher-students’ reflections and beliefs	3
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	3
What and how? Or why and for whom? A content analysis of middle school general music literature	3
Expanding the music circle through networked improvisation in an inclusive ensemble	3
Home away from home: An examination of a Caribbean youth steel pan ensemble	3
Extension of the 3 × 2 achievement goal model to university concert band performance	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
Creative musical activities in early childhood education: An analysis of teaching practices	3
Trauma-sensitive teaching: Supporting refugee students through music education	3
An Australian Study of Transferable Music Skills: The Impact of Instrumental Music Education on Non-Music Employment	3
Instrument teachers’ practices, beliefs, and barriers regarding musical creativity: Exploring the creative process of interpretation	3
Analysis of cultural heritage in music didactic materials in Galicia	3
Sight-reading components across tonal and atonal environments in music: An exploratory analysis of performers’ self-assessed proficiency	3
Curriculum and training analysis of the music degrees in Colombia	3
Chinese Primary School Students’ Singing Behaviour by Age, Sex and Socio-economic Status	3
Antiquity in the history of music: A critical review of the music textbooks for secondary education in Spain	3
Music performance anxiety: A study of anxiety predictors in higher education music students in Portugal	3

‘ Belonging, Being and Becoming ’: Supporting preschooler’s identity development through Musicking	3
Exploring music learning needs of working-age individuals in Thailand	3