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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	22
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	17
Epilogue	14
Qualitative analysis of university lecturers’ understanding and approaches of sight-reading teaching in China	13
Ecosocial approach to music education	13
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	11
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	9
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	8
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	8
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	8
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	7
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	7
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	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
An educational psychology perspective on exploring the impact of the flipped classroom model in hybrid environments on violin music learning motivation	6
Echoes of childhood: songs that have left their mark on future early childhood educators	6
Discourse analysis in music education: a systematic review	5
From practising to practice; towards a practice model for self-regulated learning	5
Editorial	5
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	5
Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	5
Social relatedness influences student retention in Chinese university ensembles: the interplay of teacher-student relatedness, peer relatedness, and teacher differentiation	5
Balancing inclusivity and musical competence: ECEC teachers' motivation to teach music through a situated expectancy-value lens	4
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	4
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4

Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
‘I am a good mother’: maternal performance and the reproduction of patriarchy through musical mothering of Chinese mothers	4
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	4
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	4
NMH’s Children’s Concert Series – experiences from participating students	4
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	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
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	4
MusicBeing as an entanglement of ideas and practices in ecology, resilience, spirituality, and well-being. A meta-narrative review	4
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Children's experiences of choral singing: evaluating reflexive choir journals with primary school pupils	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Exploring preservice elementary teachers’ self-reports of movement-based instruction in the general music classroom: an inductive thematic analysis	3
Young people healing and growing in trauma-informed positive music education	3
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	3
Towards a transformative music education: a collaborative autoethnography in the Spanish university context	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Conceptualising instrumental practice among Chinese American children, their parents, and teachers: self-regulation, cultural mediation, and filial piety	3
Embracing complexity in music education: rethinking practice, knowledge, and learning	3
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Correction	3
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	3
The relationship between musical development and social inclusion in small-group instrumental teaching	3
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	2
OOO, Guerrilla metaphysics, and the allure of children’s musical play	2
Strategies used in harmonising tonal songs: a study with students of melodic instruments	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Editorial	2
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	2
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students	2
In-service teacher training for Cantonese opera teaching in Hong Kong schools	2
Preparing for infants’ musicking – a tracking case study of a Chinese family's musical environment	2
Human rights education through collaborative songwriting: a workshop for music teacher education in Chile	2
Silent learning: a multimodal approach to examining non-verbal communication in secondary school computer-based music lessons	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2
Decolonising the rhythm curriculum: integrating global groove practices in undergraduate aural skills	2
Neoliberalism and intercultural popular music education: Chinese and Korean undergraduate students in South Korea	2
School off, music on: dimensions of young adult’s musical practices after finishing school	2
Indian music teachers’ agency when establishing an in-school music education programme in schools	2
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
Female conservatoire students’ voices regarding futures in the male-dominated world of western classical music: the communicative or controlled mirroring pianist body?	2
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce	2