Most cited papers in Music Technology and Sound Studies
What are the most cited papers in Music Technology and Sound Studies?
The most cited paper in Music Technology and Sound Studies is "librosa: Audio and Music Signal Analysis in Python" (Brian McFee, Colin Raffel, Dawen Liang et al., 2015), with 3,077 citations. Next come "Musical genre classification of audio signals" (2,829) and "Opensmile" (2,654).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 356 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | librosa: Audio and Music Signal Analysis in Python Brian McFee, Colin Raffel, Dawen Liang et al. · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences | 2015 | 3,077 |
| 2 | Musical genre classification of audio signals George Tzanetakis, Patrick D. Cook · IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing | Jul 2002 | 2,829 |
| 3 | Opensmile Florian Eyben, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Wolfgang Schuller | 25 Oct 2010 | 2,654 |
| 4 | A simple model of feedback oscillator noise spectrum David B. Leeson · Proceedings of the IEEE | 1966 | 2,439 |
| 5 | Dynamics of Phononic Materials and Structures: Historical Origins, Recent Progress, and Future Outlook Mahmoud I. Hussein, Michael Joseph Leamy, Massimo Ruzzene · Applied Mechanics Reviews | 20 Feb 2014 | 1,721 |
| 6 | Software for a cascade/parallel formant synthesizer Dennis H. Klatt · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Mar 1980 | 1,594 |
| 7 | Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? Mark Kac · American Mathematical Monthly | Apr 1966 | 1,403 |
| 8 | Interactive evolutionary computation: fusion of the capabilities of EC optimization and human evaluation Hideyuki Takagi · Proceedings of the IEEE | 2001 | 1,338 |
| 9 | Fractals, form, chance and dimension PHILIP CAMPBELL, Shreeram S. Abhyankar · The Mathematical Intelligencer | Mar 1978 | 1,145 |
| 10 | Deep content-based music recommendation Aäron van den Oord, Sander Dieleman, Benjamin Schrauwen · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) | 5 Dec 2013 | 1,006 |
| 11 | Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles Meera M. Blattner, D A Sumikawa, Robert M. Greenberg · Human-Computer Interaction | Mar 1989 | 978 |
| 12 | Response delays and the timing of discrete motor responses Alan Miles Wing, Alfred B. Kristofferson · Perception & Psychophysics | Feb 1973 | 938 |
| 13 | Consciousness and the Computational Mind Ray S. Jackendoff · Works - Scholarship, Research, & Creative Expression (Swarthmore College) | 1987 | 934 |
| 14 | SOME FRACTAL CHARACTERS OF POROUS MEDIA Boming Yu, Jianhua Li · Fractals | Sep 2001 | 926 |
| 15 | Suggested formulae for calculating auditory-filter bandwidths and excitation patterns Brian C. J. Moore, Brian R. Glasberg · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Sep 1983 | 920 |
| 16 | Focus on psychometrics. Aspects of item analysis Sandra L. Ferketich · Research in Nursing & Health | 1991 | 918 |
| 17 | What in the World Do We Hear?: An Ecological Approach to Auditory Event Perception William W. Gaver · Ecological Psychology | Mar 1993 | 906 |
| 18 | Music Structure and Emotional Response: Some Empirical Findings JOHN A. SLOBODA · Psychology of Music | Oct 1991 | 875 |
| 19 | Sound attenuation by sculpture R. Martínez‐Sala, J. Sancho, J. V. Sánchez et al. · Nature | 16 Nov 1995 | 869 |
| 20 | The Million Song Dataset Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Brian Whitman et al. | 2011 | 832 |
| 21 | Creativity and artificial intelligence Margaret A. Boden · Artificial Intelligence | Aug 1998 | 829 |
| 22 | Transform coding of audio signals using perceptual noise criteria James David Johnston · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1988 | 807 |
| 23 | Content-based classification, search, and retrieval of audio Erling Wold, Thom Blum, Douglas Keislar et al. · IEEE Multimedia | 1996 | 792 |
| 24 | Fundamentals of Physical Acoustics David T. Blackstock, Anthony A. Atchley · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Apr 2001 | 763 |
| 25 | The Lombard Sign and the Role of Hearing in Speech Harlan L. Lane, Bernard Tranel · Journal of Speech and Hearing Research | Dec 1971 | 742 |
| 26 | Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference Stefan Bilbao, Maarten van Walstijn | 2005 | 724 |
| 27 | Spacetime constraints Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics | Jun 1988 | 718 |
| 28 | Pitch, consonance, and harmony Ernst Terhardt · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | May 1974 | 718 |
| 29 | A tutorial on onset detection in music signals Juan Pablo Bello, Laurent Daudet, SA Abdallah et al. · IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing | 16 Aug 2005 | 716 |
| 30 | Query by humming Asif Ghias, Jonathan Logan, David Chamberlin et al. | 1995 | 697 |
| 31 | Headphone simulation of free-field listening. I: Stimulus synthesis Frederic L. Wightman, Doris J. Kistler · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Feb 1989 | 671 |
| 32 | Content-Based Music Information Retrieval: Current Directions and Future Challenges Michael A. Casey, Remco C. Veltkamp, Masataka Goto et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE | 19 Mar 2008 | 665 |
| 33 | Experiments on Seismic Metamaterials: Molding Surface Waves Stéphane Brûlé, Emmanuel Javelaud, Stéfan Enoch et al. · Physical Review Letters | 31 Mar 2014 | 661 |
| 34 | Artificial fishes Xiaoyuan Tu, Demetri Terzopoulos | 1994 | 625 |
| 35 | Functional reactive animation Conal M. Elliott, Paul Hudak | Aug 1997 | 624 |
| 36 | Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Polyphonic Sound Event Detection Emre Çakır, Giambattista Parascandolo, Toni Heittola et al. · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing | 23 May 2017 | 619 |
| 37 | Spectromorphology: explaining sound-shapes Denis Smalley · Organised Sound | Aug 1997 | 614 |
| 38 | The reacTable Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Marcos Alonso et al. | 15 Feb 2007 | 612 |
| 39 | Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Dan Stowell, Dimitrios A. Giannoulis, Emmanouil Benetos et al. · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | May 2015 | 608 |
| 40 | Sensorimotor coupling in music and the psychology of the groove. Petr Janata, Stefan T. Tomic, Jason M. Haberman · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | 18 Jul 2011 | 600 |
| 41 | Metrics for Polyphonic Sound Event Detection Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, Tuomas I. Virtanen · Applied Sciences | 25 May 2016 | 594 |
| 42 | How to Construct Deep Recurrent Neural Networks Razvan Pascanu, Çağlar Gülçehre, Kyunghyun Cho et al. · International Conference on Learning Representations | 2014 | 582 |
| 43 | The SonicFinder: An Interface That Uses Auditory Icons William W. Gaver · Human-Computer Interaction | Mar 1989 | 582 |
| 44 | The sound of many hands clapping Z. Néda, E. Ravasz, Y. Brechet et al. · Nature | Feb 2000 | 567 |
| 45 | Sound Attenuation by a Two-Dimensional Array of Rigid Cylinders J. V. Sánchez-Pérez, David Conde Caballero, R. Martínez‐Sala et al. · Physical Review Letters | 15 Jun 1998 | 563 |
| 46 | Design galleries Joe Marks, Wheeler Ruml, Kathy Ryall et al. | 1997 | 558 |
| 47 | TUT database for acoustic scene classification and sound event detection Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, Tuomas I. Virtanen | Aug 2016 | 533 |
| 48 | Emotional Expression in Music Performance: Between the Performer's Intention and the Listener's Experience Alf Gabrielsson, Patrik N. Juslin · Psychology of Music | Apr 1996 | 533 |
| 49 | Flexible, Stretchable, Transparent Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Loudspeakers Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Feng Chen et al. · Nano Letters | 29 Oct 2008 | 531 |
| 50 | Analytical expressions for the tonotopic sensory scale Hartmut Traunmüller · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Jul 1990 | 529 |
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