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Music Therapy and Health

Music Therapy and Health is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 21.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the use of music as a therapeutic intervention for managing anxiety, stress, and psychological outcomes in various contexts such as preoperative settings, neurological rehabilitation, cancer treatment, and critical care. The research emphasizes the potential of music therapy in reducing anxiety, enhancing mood, and improving physiological and psychological well-being.

  • Music Therapy
  • Anxiety
  • Stress Reduction
  • Preoperative Anxiety
  • Psychological Outcomes
  • Pain Management
  • Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Physiological Responses
  • Cognitive Recovery
  • Mood Enhancement
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
21.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+46%
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Which countries lead Music Therapy and Health research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 726 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 726 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 370 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 300 works
  5. 5 India 261 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 203 works
  7. 7 Iran 190 works
  8. 8 Australia 189 works
  9. 9 Germany 187 works
  10. 10 Canada 178 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: 28.8%China: 19.8%United Kingdom: 10.1%Türkiye: 8.2%6 others listed: 33.1%29%largest
United States1,052 · 28.8%China726 · 19.8%United Kingdom370 · 10.1%Türkiye300 · 8.2%6 others listed1,209 · 33.1%

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

Which institutions lead Music Therapy and Health research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Aalborg University publishes the most Music Therapy and Health research, followed by The University of Melbourne and University of Bergen.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 36 works
  2. 2 The University of MelbourneAustralia 34 works
  3. 3 University of BergenNorway 18 works
  4. 4 Perfect Harmony HealthUnited States 18 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 15 works
  6. 6 University of LimerickIreland 15 works
  7. 7 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 15 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
  9. 9 University of HaifaIsrael 14 works
  10. 10 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 13 works

Where is Music Therapy and Health research done?

The largest centres of Music Therapy and Health research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Melbourne (Australia) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aalborg and Bergen.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 109 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 69 works
  3. 3 Melbourne Australia 66 works
  4. 4 Istanbul Türkiye 63 works
  5. 5 New York United States 56 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 55 works
  7. 7 Tehran Iran 54 works
  8. 8 Seoul South Korea 43 works
  9. 9 Boston United States 43 works
  10. 10 Aalborg Denmark 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AalborgDK · 41.0 works12×
  2. BergenNO · 29.3 works10.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Music Therapy and Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Music Therapy and Health?

Among universities, judged by research, Iranshahr University, The University of Melbourne and University of Haifa score highest, combining 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 26.91%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Iranshahr University: 13, 33.4%The University of Melbourne: 34, 28.9%University of Haifa: 14, 37.5%University of Bergen: 18, 23.0%Western Sydney University: 11, 22.1%University of Limerick: 15, 24.7%Aalborg University: 36, 7.3%Anglia Ruskin University: 10, 28.1%University of Jyväskylä: 10, 29.9%University College London: 14, 34.2%University of HaifaIranshahr UniversityThe University of Me…University of Bergen
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Iranshahr UniversityIran 74.433.4%29.8×13 +413.2%
2 The University of MelbourneAustralia 73.628.9%6.5×34 +116.4%
3 University of HaifaIsrael 69.237.5%11.5×14 +32.6%
4 University of BergenNorway 64.823.0%12.3×18 +23.6%
5 Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 64.322.1%8.3×11 +398.9%
6 University of LimerickIreland 63.724.7%16.7×15 +30.6%
7 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 62.97.3%12.8×36 +39.9%
8 Anglia Ruskin UniversityUnited Kingdom 62.028.1%20.5×10 +63.4%
9 University of JyväskyläFinland 62.029.9%10.2×10 +33.8%
10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 54.734.2%1.9×14 +107.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Music Therapy and Health research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 46% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Music Therapy and Health.

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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.

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.