OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Music Education Research 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	15
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	13
Ecosocial approach to music education	13
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	13
Epilogue	11
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	10
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	10
Qualitative analysis of university lecturers’ understanding and approaches of sight-reading teaching in China	9
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	8
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	8
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	8
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	7
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	7
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	7
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	7
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	6
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	6
Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	6
The subject ‘music’ from inside versus outside the music teaching profession: a comparative case study on the views of music and non-music primary education teachers in Spain	6
The unicorns of elementary schools: male elementary general music teachers	5
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	5
Improvisation in traditional music: learning practices and principles	5
Editorial	5
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	5
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	5

From practising to practice; towards a practice model for self-regulated learning	5
Children's experiences of choral singing: evaluating reflexive choir journals with primary school pupils	4
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	4
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	4
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	4
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Globalization, nationalism, and music education in the twenty-first century in Greater China Globalization, nationalism, and music education in the twenty-first century in Greater China	4
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	3
Towards a transformative music education: a collaborative autoethnography in the Spanish university context	3
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	3
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	2
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students	2
Embodied pedagogy for strings: preparing and performing Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonata no. 2 op. 27 – a journey of unexpected discoveries	2
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	2
Preparing for infants’ musicking – a tracking case study of a Chinese family's musical environment	2
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	2
Editorial	2
In-service teacher training for Cantonese opera teaching in Hong Kong schools	2
Sound qualities in Early Childhood Education: an analysis of textbooks in Spain	2
Human rights education through collaborative songwriting: a workshop for music teacher education in Chile	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2
Female conservatoire students’ voices regarding futures in the male-dominated world of western classical music: the communicative or controlled mirroring pianist body?	2
School off, music on: dimensions of young adult’s musical practices after finishing school	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Perceptions of values and influential sources of creativity, music types, and music activities in school music learning: a study of students in Changsha, China	2
Conceptualising instrumental practice among Chinese American children, their parents, and teachers: self-regulation, cultural mediation, and filial piety	2
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	2
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
Centring perspectives of disabled children in music education research	1
Teacher beliefs about student agency in whole-class playing	1
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	1
Teaching and learning in music education – a meta-synthesis	1
Motivational factors for sustained participation in a traditional Chinese orchestra among primary school students: a self-determination theory perspective	1
What factors influence whether and how Norwegian kindergarten teachers sing with children? Results of a national survey	1
Effects of an intercultural music course on adolescents’ intergroup attitudes in southwest China	1
Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out	1
Recognising intra-actions of music and pupil	1

Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education	1
Thinking ahead: the use of mental training in young violinists’ skill development	1
Blurred lines and queered spaces: an examination of teachers’ visions of multi-styles curricula	1
The parent role in Suzuki music lessons: experiences and perspectives shared by novice Suzuki parents	1
Reverberations in music education: What does sound ‘do’ in our learning spaces ?	1
Empowering piano students of Western classical music: challenging teaching and learning of musical interpretation in higher education	1
Exploring Nordic approaches to advanced instrumental music pedagogy: insights from ethnographic fieldwork	1
Reconceptualising literature reviews in Ghanaian music theory and composition: a path toward academic rigour and creative engagement	1
Becoming musicians: learning strategies among Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in the Galilee region	1
OOO, Guerrilla metaphysics, and the allure of children’s musical play	1
Call For PapersRIME 2025 The 14th International Conference for Research in Music Education (April 22–25 2025, Online)	1
An International quartet of voices: sharing songs and culture beyond borders	1
On decolonising music diversity in/and higher education	1
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	1
Supporting musical affordances for desistance and resistance in youth justice settings	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Posthuman Perspectives for Music Education	1
How inclusive are our music classrooms? A theoretical model and case study from a preschool class of a mainstream private nursery school in Cyprus	1
Sound possibilities: listening for the new in early years music-making practices	1
Facilitators and barriers to the Music College Entrance Examination among Chinese ethnic minority students	1
The instrumental practice goal realization inventory: from intention to evaluation	1
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	1
Music education research special issue: posthuman perspectives for music education	1
Through the lens of Bourdieu: an integral literature review on bringing gender neutrality to the musical instrument selection process	1
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce	1
Understanding virtual rehearsal participation through self-determination theory	1
‘It’s music and we came to play instruments’: teaching for engagement in classroom music	1
Intercultural dialogue and the mobilisation of aural skills	1
Review of music literacy strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis	1
Digital music and critical music literacy	1
Crossing borders and generations: examining the relationship between music engagement and immigration generation	1
Exploring the perspectives of Asian American parents on their musically talented children in instrumental education	1
Methodological shifts and departures in music education research: embracing complexity with diffraction, intra-action, and agentic assemblages	1