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Diverse Music Education Insights

Diverse Music Education Insights is a research topic within Music. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of music education, including formal and informal learning practices, self-efficacy and performance anxiety in music, teacher preparation, creative collaboration, and the development of musical skills. It delves into the role of parents, teachers, and peers in motivating students, as well as the impact of music on psychological well-being and quality of life. Additionally, it examines the challenges and experiences of music teachers and the use of technology in music education.

  • Music Education
  • Informal Learning
  • Performance Anxiety
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Creative Collaboration
  • Teacher Preparation
  • Musical Development
  • Practice Strategies
  • Motivation in Music
  • Music Performance
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diverse Music Education Insights

Which countries lead Diverse Music Education Insights research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 662 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 662 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 335 works
  4. 4 Brazil 298 works
  5. 5 Spain 276 works
  6. 6 Australia 204 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 166 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 158 works
  9. 9 Canada 138 works
  10. 10 Germany 121 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 31.0%China: 19.4%United Kingdom: 9.8%Brazil: 8.7%6 others listed: 31.1%31%largest
United States1,059 · 31.0%China662 · 19.4%United Kingdom335 · 9.8%Brazil298 · 8.7%6 others listed1,063 · 31.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Diverse Music Education Insights research?

By volume in 2022-now, The University of Melbourne publishes the most Diverse Music Education Insights research, followed by Weatherford College and University of Malaya.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The University of MelbourneAustralia 37 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 34 works
  3. 3 University of MalayaMalaysia 31 works
  4. 4 Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia 30 works
  5. 5 Mahasarakham UniversityThailand 30 works
  6. 6 Education University of Hong KongChina 26 works
  7. 7 University of the Arts HelsinkiFinland 26 works
  8. 8 Perfect Harmony HealthUnited States 25 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina 22 works
  10. 10 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diverse Music Education Insights?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diverse Music Education Insights include Victoria Clarke, Tim Driscoll and Alan Charles Evans.

  1. 1 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  2. 2 Tim Driscoll Australia 204k citations
  3. 3 Alan Charles Evans Canada 156k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Diverse Music Education Insights?

The most cited paper in Diverse Music Education Insights is "The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring" (Benjamin S. Bloom, 1984), with 2,495 citations. Next come "Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms" (1,911) and "Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music" (1,864).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring Benjamin S. Bloom · Educational Researcher Jun 1984 2,495
2 Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms Patrik N. Juslin, Daniel Västfjäll · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Oct 2008 1,911
3 Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music Valorie N. Salimpoor, Mitchel Benovoy, Kevin Michel-Herve Larcher et al. · Nature Neuroscience 9 Jan 2011 1,864
4 The do re mi's of everyday life: The structure and personality correlates of music preferences. Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003 1,587
5 Cultural capital in educational research: A critical assessment Annette P. Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger · Theory and Society Dec 2003 1,446
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Diverse Music Education Insights research done?

The largest centres of Diverse Music Education Insights research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Maha Sarakham and Tai Po.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 82 works
  2. 2 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 80 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 61 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 61 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 55 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 51 works
  7. 7 BangkokThailand 49 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 48 works
  9. 9 HelsinkiFinland 46 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Maha SarakhamTH · 31.2 works50×
  2. Tai PoCN · 27.7 works34×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diverse Music Education Insights than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Diverse Music Education Insights?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, The University of Melbourne and University of the Arts Helsinki score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Education University…University of the Ar…The University of Me…University of Malaya
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Education University of Hong KongChina 84.732.5%38.3×26 +112.9%
2The University of MelbourneAustralia 81.921.5%7.1×37 +27.9%
3University of the Arts HelsinkiFinland 73.521.8%432.4×26 +25.4%
4University of MalayaMalaysia 69.214.1%11.9×31 +1494.0%
5Goldsmiths University of LondonUnited Kingdom 69.037.7%36.8×10 +65.3%
6Mahasarakham UniversityThailand 64.413.7%62.2×30 +1754.2%
7University of JyväskyläFinland 63.823.3%13.3×11 +15.2%
8The University of SydneyAustralia 62.821.0%3.2×18 +37.4%
9Edith Cowan UniversityAustralia 61.526.9%13.3×8 +184.1%
10University of TorontoCanada 60.513.2%2.2×21 +33.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Diverse Music Education Insights, country by country

Is Diverse Music Education Insights research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Diverse Music Education Insights.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Diverse Music Education Insights as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Diverse Music Education Insights over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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