OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians	29
Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories	17
Perception and learning of relative pitch by musicians using the vibrotactile mode	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 influences of familiarity and key on pitch accuracy in singing	13
Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies	13
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience	13
Afro-Colombian internal migration and participatory music: Ethnically and politically charged religious festivals in Bogota	12
The effect of lessons in the Alexander Technique on pianists’ posture during performance	12
Interactive effects of presentation mode and pitch register on simultaneous consonance	10
Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians	10
Is music a drug? How music listening may trigger neurochemical responses in the brain	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
Thanks to reviewers	8
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions	7
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists	7
Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile	7
Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits	6
Book Review: Mine Doğantan-Dack (Ed.), Rethinking the musical instrument	6
Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample	5
Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start	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
Performance profiling: A systematic approach to the enhancement of music practice and peak performance	5

Psychological counseling services in music schools in Poland: History and current status	5
Relationships between perceived parenting styles and the self-regulated music practice of Chinese music majors	4
Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform	4
Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings	4
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians	4
Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD	4
Promoting prosociality in Colombia: Is music more effective than other cultural interventions?	4
Book Review: Raymond A. R. MacDonald and Graeme B. Wilson. The art of becoming: How group improvisation works	4
The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers	3
Evaluating how facets of openness to experience predict music preference	3
Passion, music, and psychological well-being	3
Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music	3
Please unmute your microphone: Comparing the effectiveness of remote versus in-person percussion training	3
Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Editorial	3
Music listening as emotion regulation: Associations with other emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety	3
Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening	3
How secure memorization promotes expression: A longitudinal case study of performing Chopin’s Barcarolle, Op. 60	3
Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch	3
Expert pianists’ practice perspectives: A production and listening study	2
Choose your own adventure: Vocal jazz improvisation, conceptual metaphor, and cognitive embodiment	2
Tracing change during music therapy for depression: Toward a markers-based understanding of communicative behaviors	2
Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo	2
Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists	2
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students	2
Book Review: Ernst Kurth, Music psychology	2
A regularization algorithm for local key detection	2
The role of gender in emotional reactions elicited by music: Autonomic reactivity, facial expression, and self-reports	2
Emotionality and performance: An emotion-regulation approach to music performance anxiety	2
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement	2
Unifying concert research and science outreach	2
Dynamic Attending in percussionists and wind players	2
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ)	2
Superior pitch identification ability is associated with better mental rotation performance	1
Maria Manturzewska’s model of the lifespan development of professional musicians in the light of recent research and cultural changes	1
Musical activities in preschool education: A cross-cultural comparative study	1
The social impact of music making	1
The effects of a multimodal music program on young children’s facial expressions during controlled singing tasks	1
Blues-based stigma songwriting with adults on an acute mental health inpatient unit: A cluster-randomized trial and reflection	1
Assessing aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or less: A comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9	1
Listen Up: A case study examination of focused listening	1
Fugue for Four Voices: Building narratives through music behind bars	1
Guest Editorial	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
A systematic review of music-induced substance craving	1
Have we sold our souls to the drum machine? A historical analysis of tempo stability in Western music recordings	1
“A choir is a social organism that needs human contact.” Conducting a choir during the COVID-19 lockdown period	1
The evolution of musicality and cross-domain co-evolutionary interactions	1
Tempo versus average rates of harmonic rhythm in popular music: A study of three corpora	1
Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance	1

Self-consciousness and trait anxiety influence music performance in high-pressure situations	1
The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender	1