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Papers

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

Article	Citations
Early twentieth-century recordings in higher music education: a preliminary analysis of the students’ views	10
The impact of teachers’ listening habits on how much listening activity is used in music lessons	9
Enabling more equitable teaching of advanced GCE level (A-Level) Music in England: a partnership approach	8
Knowing ‘how to create’ in order to know ‘how to teach’? Perceptions and conditioning of Spanish music teachers in secondary education	8
Making space for singing in the 21st century classroom – A focus group interview study with primary school music teachers in Sweden	7
Experiencing Music Technology - Experiencing Music Technology (Fourth Edition) by David Brian Williams and Peter Richard Webster, Oxford University Press, 2022. Pbk, 576pp. £82.45. ISBN: 978-01906357	7
Difference in instrumental tuition in higher music education: towards an analytical framework	7
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account - Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account by Graham J. McPhail . Routledge, 2023. Hbk, 256pp, £130. ISBN: 9781032292519.	6
An investigation into the factors influencing teachers’ inclusion of improvisation in piano lessons	5
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music by Edward R. McClellan, Taylor and Francis, 2023. Pbk, 182pp, £35.99. ISBN: 9781003038474	5
Aspirations and limitations: the state of world music education in secondary schools in multicultural Manchester	5
To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music by Clint Randles. GIA Publications, 2020. 328pp., pbk, £20.99, ISBN: 978-1622774548.	5
The Australian Music Students Health Survey: impact of past experience on student attitudes to health education	5
Joining alone: factors that influence the musical participation of young adults after leaving school	3
How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak	3
Culture, Creativity, and Music Education in China: Developments and Challenges by Wai-Chung Ho, 2023, Pbk, 234pp. £38.99, Routledge, ISBN 9781032397702	3
Developing teacher curriculum design expertise: using the CDC Model in the music classroom	3
Use of animated stories to improve music education practices of trainee primary school teachers in Spain	3
The Swanwick/Tillman Spiral of Musical Development: impacts and influences –Guest Editorial	3
BME volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
The musical lives of young children in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
BME volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
The sequence of musical development and its place in Swanwick’s meta-theory of music education: a personal response	3
Mr. Murray Schafer, listen, they are talking about you: a systematic review of the conceptual representations of your ideas in the context of 21st-century education	2
Music schools in changing societies: how collaborative professionalism can transform music education edited by Michaela Hahn , Cecilia Björk and Heidi Westerlund , New York, Routledge, 2024, 234pp. $	2

Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre. Series: SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music, by Guro Gravem Johansen. Routledge, 2021. xiv+190	2
Reflections on New Zealand music education through the lens of Swanwick and Tillman’s model of musical development	2
BME volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Working musically with care-experienced children and their families in the early years	2
A scoping review of empirical studies on informal music learning	2
Challenges and tension fields in classical instrumental group tuition: interviews with Swedish Art and Music School teachers	2
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice – CORRIGENDUM	2
Making sense of democratisation: a case study about extracurricular music workshops in France	2
BJME book review, Dec 2022: Elizabeth Haddon - Sound Teaching: A Research-Informed Approach to Inspiring Confidence, Skill, and Enjoyment in Music Performance edited by Henrique Meissner, Renee Timme	2
Editorial	2
Learn Faster,Perform Better: A Musician’s Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing by Molly Gebrian. Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pages. ISBN: 9780197680070	2
BME volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
‘It blew my mind’. Creating spaces for integrating creativity, electroacoustic music and digital competencies for student teachers	2
Reflections on the concept of musical development	2