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

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	23
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	12
Epilogue	11
Ecosocial approach to music education	10
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	10
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	9
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	8
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	8
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	7
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	7
Examining online video-based professional development for music teachers	7
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	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
Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	6
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	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
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	6
Editorial	6
Improvisation in traditional music: learning practices and principles	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
The unicorns of elementary schools: male elementary general music teachers	5

Let’s play together: teacher perspectives on collaborative chamber music instruction	5
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	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
Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	4
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	4
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	4
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
Entrepreneurial identity formation through musical identity formation	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	3
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	3
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	3
Towards decolonising university music education in Nigeria	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	3
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	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
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
Train noise as music: an exploration of audio-graphic interpretations elicited by music students and non-musicians	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
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Sound qualities in Early Childhood Education: an analysis of textbooks in Spain	2
Female conservatoire students’ voices regarding futures in the male-dominated world of western classical music: the communicative or controlled mirroring pianist body?	2
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	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
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	2
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	2
Embodied pedagogy for strings: preparing and performing Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonata no. 2 op. 27 – a journey of unexpected discoveries	2