OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Music Education Research 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	25
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	15
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	13
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	13
Epilogue	11
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	10
Ecosocial approach to music education	10
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	10
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	8
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	8
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	8
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	7
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	7
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	7
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	7
Qualitative analysis of university lecturers’ understanding and approaches of sight-reading teaching in China	6
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	6
Editorial	6
Examining online video-based professional development for music teachers	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	6
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	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

Let’s play together: teacher perspectives on collaborative chamber music instruction	5
Improvisation in traditional music: learning practices and principles	5
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	5
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
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	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
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	3
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	3
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	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
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
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	2
Sound qualities in Early Childhood Education: an analysis of textbooks in Spain	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	2
Embodied pedagogy for strings: preparing and performing Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonata no. 2 op. 27 – a journey of unexpected discoveries	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
Editorial	2
Human rights education through collaborative songwriting: a workshop for music teacher education in Chile	2
Conceptualising instrumental practice among Chinese American children, their parents, and teachers: self-regulation, cultural mediation, and filial piety	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	2