OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology of Music is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults	38
Functions of produced and observed gesture in choral singing	20
A moderated mediation study of music engagement, adaptive music listening, and dreaming	19
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis	18
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	17
Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music	16
Gaze behavior, attention allocation, and automaticity in expert chamber music coaches	15
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing	12
Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism	12
Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness	12
Identity formation and possible selves of early career instrumental music teachers: A qualitative study	12
Psychometric validation and factorial structure of the Chinese version of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (K-MPAI)	12
Effects of attention focus instructions on amateur piano performance	12
Paracusis musicalis: Insights on age-related absolute pitch decline	11
The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes	11
Audiences’ emotional response to choir singing by people living with mental health conditions	11
Emotional and musical factors combined with song-specific age predict the subjective autobiographical saliency of music in older adults	10
Music engagement for stress and anxiety in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	10
Inside the piano studio: What teachers say about performance training, perfectionism, and performance anxiety	9
Sequential consonance/dissonance: Effects of chord directionality, cadences, and voice leading	9
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias	9
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance	9
Perfectionism and impostor phenomenon among undergraduate music education majors	8
Impacts of emotional self-awareness, emotional regulation, and performance anxiety on stage confidence in Chinese music students	8
Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception	8

Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation	8
Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance	8
Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback	8
Musical mood induction: The relative influences of music type and the importance of music preference	8
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians	8
Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time	7
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	7
Situational belonging in high school band ensembles and high schools	7
Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity	7
Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style	7
“Love lies”: A content analysis of romantic attachment style in popular music	6
Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives	6
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	6
The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music	6
Comparing the emotional effects of semantic content and vocal expression of lyrics	6
University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study	6
How does music contribute to well-being? Perspectives from homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance use	6
Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression	6
How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis	6
Development and validation of the Singing Voice Function Self-Efficacy Scale (Singing-VoSES)	6
Personal strength and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of cultural workers in the music sector	6
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	5
Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study	5
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics	5
The MISE method: A new communicative approach for evaluating and training singing through mental imagery—Executive implications	5
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions	5
Exploring five professional violinists’ flow experiences during solo and chamber music performances: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	5
Meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety from the experts’ perspective	5
Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing	5
Immediacy, ensemble setup, and classroom space: A quasi-experimental study among secondary instrumental teachers and students	5
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum	5
Predicting singing ability from parents’ parental support and openness in high school students: Using a self-adjusted Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index Inventory	5
Character judgements of rap music fans	4
The impact of a focused listening experience on self-compassion and mental health help-seeking	4
Seeing sound, shaping stories: The role of ideasthesia and event segmentation in musically evoked narratives	4
Breaking with common practice: Exploring modernist musical emotion	4
Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan	4
Music listening according to the iso principle in patients with mood disorders	4
The mental health of musicians: A scoping review	4
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country	4
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians	4
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	4
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	4
‘It made me feel helpless because I couldn’t control anything’: Occupational stress and well-being experiences of conservatoire music students	4
Music teachers’ stance in action to develop student autonomy	4
An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods	4
Musical consonance in simple, static auditory stimuli and perceived pleasantness: The role of musical interval, harmonicity, and stimulus duration	4
The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults	4
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance	4
Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs	4

The influence of consonance–dissonance contrasts on perceived pleasantness of concluding tonic chords in short chord sequences	4
Social identity, collective self-esteem, and musical preferences in electronic dance music culture: The role of emotions	4
Treatments for performance anxiety in musicians across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
The first cut is the deepest: Exploring the importance of early musical experiences in the development of musical identities	4
Determinants of motivation in world-class musicians and Olympic athletes: Exploring the front and the back side of the medallion	4
The effect of visual information on subliminal music-induced emotion	4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	4
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood	4
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	4
“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults	4