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Papers

(The median citation count of Musicae Scientiae 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	36
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	19
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	18
Examining the CRAFT program’s impact on student musicians’ well-being compared to controls	17
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	15
The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	14
The influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	14
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	11
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	9
Life satisfaction and adolescent music making: A comparison of youth choirs and bands in Spain	8
Live music in the ICU: A qualitative study of music students’ perspectives	8
Measuring the immersive music listening experience: Convergence of online and laboratory data	8
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	8
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists	7
Thanks to reviewers	7
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	6
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	6
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	6
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	6
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	5
Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	5
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	5
Performance profiling: A systematic approach to the enhancement of music practice and peak performance	5

Validation of the abbreviated version of the Profile of Musical Perception Skills (Mini-PROMS) in a Spanish sample of musicians and non-musicians	5
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	5
Exploring the nature of music-evoked autobiographical memories in healthy aging: A mixed-methods study	5
Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings	4
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	4
Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	4
Book Review: Raymond A. R. MacDonald and Graeme B. Wilson. The art of becoming: How group improvisation works	4
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	4
Music-related emotions: Attributions and arousal of adolescents with and without borderline personality disorder traits	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Please unmute your microphone: Comparing the effectiveness of remote versus in-person percussion training	3
Music listening as emotion regulation: Associations with other emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety	3
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch	3
Editorial	3
How secure memorization promotes expression: A longitudinal case study of performing Chopin’s Barcarolle, Op. 60	3
Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening	3
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	3
Passion, music, and psychological well-being	3
A new method of exploring affect dynamics in music: A psychometric model based on stochastic processes	3
Choose your own adventure: Vocal jazz improvisation, conceptual metaphor, and cognitive embodiment	2
Book Review: Ernst Kurth, Music psychology	2
A regularization algorithm for local key detection	2
Guest Editorial	2
The evolution of musicality and cross-domain co-evolutionary interactions	2
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	2
Unifying concert research and science outreach	2
The role of gender in emotional reactions elicited by music: Autonomic reactivity, facial expression, and self-reports	2
Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists	2
Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo	2
Dynamic Attending in percussionists and wind players	2
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement	2
Tracing change during music therapy for depression: Toward a markers-based understanding of communicative behaviors	2
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ)	2
Applying the networked flow model in a real-world music contest	2
Maria Manturzewska’s model of the lifespan development of professional musicians in the light of recent research and cultural changes	1
Listen Up: A case study examination of focused listening	1
Auditory imagery ability influences accuracy when singing with altered auditory feedback	1
Music listening according to the iso principle modulates affective state	1
Assessing aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or less: A comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9	1
Musical activities in preschool education: A cross-cultural comparative study	1
The unifying power of live music events: A systematic review of social outcomes for audience members	1
Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance	1
Have we sold our souls to the drum machine? A historical analysis of tempo stability in Western music recordings	1
Is music listening an effective intervention for reducing anxiety? A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies	1
Expressive semitones: Music students’ perceptual preferences for melodic intonation on the violin	1
Book Review: Aaron Williamon, Jane Ginsborg, Rosie Perkins, and George Waddell. Performing music research: Methods in music education, psychology, and performance science	1
Can perseverance of effort become maladaptive? Study addiction moderates the relationship between this component of grit and well-being among music academy students	1
Emotionality and performance: An emotion-regulation approach to music performance anxiety	1
Music making and music listening today: Challenges and opportunities	1
Self-consciousness and trait anxiety influence music performance in high-pressure situations	1

Book Review: Mats B. Küssner, Liila Taruffi, & Georgia A. Floridou (Eds.), Music and mental imagery	1
A phrase in a loop: A rethink of verbatim repetition in the speech-to-song illusion and a new approach to the study of involuntary auditory imagery	1
Blues-based stigma songwriting with adults on an acute mental health inpatient unit: A cluster-randomized trial and reflection	1
Tempo versus average rates of harmonic rhythm in popular music: A study of three corpora	1
“A choir is a social organism that needs human contact.” Conducting a choir during the COVID-19 lockdown period	1