| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The association between loneliness and depressive symptoms among adults aged 50 years and older: a 12-year population-based cohort study | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2021 | 178 |
| 2 | Exploring Co-Performer Communication | Musicae Scientiae | 2002 | 128 |
| 3 | “Expressivity comes from within your soul”: A questionnaire study of music students' perspectives on expressivity | Research Studies in Music Education | 2003 | 120 |
| 4 | Management of babies born extremely preterm at less than 26 weeks of gestation: a framework for clinical practice at the time of birth | Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition | 2008 | 100 |
| 5 | Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 89 |
| 6 | Awareness and incidence of health problems among conservatoire students | Psychology of Music | 2006 | 87 |
| 7 | Evaluating Evaluation: Musical Performance Assessment as a Research Tool | Music Perception | 2003 | 80 |
| 8 | The Role of Retrieval Structures in Memorizing Music | Cognitive Psychology | 2002 | 75 |
| 9 | How do artistic creative activities regulate our emotions? Validation of the Emotion Regulation Strategies for Artistic Creative Activities Scale (ERS-ACA) | PLoS ONE | 2019 | 75 |
| 10 | The biological impact of listening to music in clinical and nonclinical settings: A systematic review | Progress in Brain Research | 2018 | 70 |
| 11 | Fit to Perform: An Investigation of Higher Education Music Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors toward Health | Frontiers in Psychology | 2017 | 67 |
| 12 | The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown 1.0 on Working Patterns, Income, and Wellbeing Among Performing Arts Professionals in the United Kingdom (April–June 2020) | Frontiers in Psychology | 2020 | 63 |
| 13 | Evaluation of a Mental Skills Training Program for Musicians | Journal of Applied Sport Psychology | 2011 | 62 |
| 14 | Learning to make music in older adulthood: A mixed-methods exploration of impacts on wellbeing | Psychology of Music | 2014 | 62 |
| 15 | Understanding the wellbeing of professional musicians through the lens of Positive Psychology | Psychology of Music | 2017 | 57 |
| 16 | Vocal performance in the seventeenth century | | 2012 | 56 |
| 17 | Resounding Meaning: A PERMA Wellbeing Profile of Classical Musicians | Frontiers in Psychology | 2018 | 52 |
| 18 | Profiling the Location and Extent of Musicians’ Pain Using Digital Pain Drawings | Pain Practice | 2018 | 49 |
| 19 | Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers | International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being | 2018 | 46 |
| 20 | Complexity of physiological responses decreases in high-stress musical performance | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 2013 | 45 |
| 21 | Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery | Psychology of Well-being | 2016 | 45 |
| 22 | Primary School Children’s Self-Efficacy for Music Learning | Journal of Research in Music Education | 2011 | 44 |
| 23 | Taking the plunge: The hopes and fears of students as they begin music college | British Journal of Music Education | 2006 | 43 |
| 24 | Audience responses to a live orchestral concert | Musicae Scientiae | 2006 | 42 |
| 25 | Healthy behaviours in music and non‐music performance students | Health Education | 2009 | 42 |
| 26 | Learning cultures and the conservatoire: an ethnographically-informed case study | Music Education Research | 2013 | 41 |
| 27 | Determinants of listeners' enjoyment of a performance | Psychology of Music | 2007 | 40 |
| 28 | The worst is yet to come: the psychological impact of COVID-19 on Hong Kong music teachers | Music Education Research | 2021 | 40 |
| 29 | Working in music: Becoming a performer-teacher | Music Education Research | 2004 | 39 |
| 30 | Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between receptive arts engagement and loneliness among older adults | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | 2020 | 36 |
| 31 | The digital ‘turn’ in music education (editorial) | Music Education Research | 2021 | 36 |
| 32 | Low-stress and high-stress singing have contrasting effects on glucocorticoid response | Frontiers in Psychology | 2015 | 35 |
| 33 | How Participatory Music Engagement Supports Mental Well-being: A Meta-Ethnography | Qualitative Health Research | 2020 | 35 |
| 34 | An investigation into musicians’ thoughts and perceptions during performance | Research Studies in Music Education | 2014 | 34 |
| 35 | Longitudinal Associations Between Short-Term, Repeated, and Sustained Arts Engagement and Well-Being Outcomes in Older Adults | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | 2020 | 34 |
| 36 | How group singing facilitates recovery from the symptoms of postnatal depression: a comparative qualitative study | BMC Psychology | 2018 | 33 |
| 37 | Memory structures for encoding and retrieving a piece of music: an ERP investigation | Cognitive Brain Research | 2004 | 31 |
| 38 | Associations between singing to babies and symptoms of postnatal depression, wellbeing, self-esteem and mother-infant bond | Public Health | 2017 | 29 |
| 39 | Is Funny Music Funny? Contexts and Case Studies of Film Music Humor | Journal of Popular Music Studies | 2002 | 28 |
| 40 | An exploratory study of the role of performance feedback and musical imagery in piano playing | Research Studies in Music Education | 2007 | 28 |
| 41 | Seeing the Sound: An Exploration of the Use of Mental Imagery by Classical Musicians | Musicae Scientiae | 2008 | 28 |
| 42 | Memorising music | | 2002 | 25 |
| 43 | Group Drumming Modulates Cytokine Response in Mental Health Services Users: A Preliminary Study | Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | 2016 | 25 |
| 44 | Stage call: Cardiovascular reactivity to audition stress in musicians | PLoS ONE | 2017 | 25 |
| 45 | 244Pu on Earth">Attempt to detect primordial244Pu on Earth | Physical Review C | 2012 | 24 |
| 46 | Fit to Perform: A Profile of Higher Education Music Students’ Physical Fitness | Frontiers in Psychology | 2020 | 24 |
| 47 | Arts engagement trends in the United Kingdom and their mental and social wellbeing implications: HEartS Survey | PLoS ONE | 2021 | 24 |
| 48 | Automatic Assessment of Tone Quality in Violin Music Performance | Frontiers in Psychology | 2019 | 23 |
| 49 | Psychosocial singing interventions for the mental health and well-being of family carers of patients with cancer: results from a longitudinal controlled study | BMJ Open | 2019 | 23 |
| 50 | Time-Dependent Characteristics of Performance Evaluation | Music Perception | 2007 | 22 |
