| In time with the music: The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology M Clayton, R Sager, U Will European meetings in ethnomusicology 11, 3-142, 2005 | 960 | 2005 |
| The cultural study of music: A critical introduction M Clayton Routledge, 2013 | 584 | 2013 |
| Time in Indian music: rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag performance M Clayton Oxford University Press, 2000 | 391* | 2000 |
| What is entrainment? Definition and applications in musical research M Clayton Empirical musicology review 7 (1-2), 2012 | 234 | 2012 |
| The social and personal functions of music in cross-cultural perspective M Clayton The Oxford handbook of music psychology, 35-44, 2009 | 201 | 2009 |
| Gestures in performance S Dahl, F Bevilacqua, R Bresin musical Gestures, 48-80, 2010 | 145 | 2010 |
| Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and recommendations N Jacoby, EH Margulis, M Clayton, E Hannon, H Honing, J Iversen, ... Music Perception 37 (3), 185-195, 2020 | 129 | 2020 |
| Observing entrainment in music performance: Video-based observational analysis of Indian musicians' tanpura playing and beat marking MRL Clayton Musicae Scientiae 11 (1), 27-59, 2007 | 116 | 2007 |
| Free rhythm: ethnomusicology and the study of music without metre MRL Clayton Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59 (2), 323-332, 1996 | 116 | 1996 |
| Time, Gesture, and Attention in a Khyāl Performance M Clayton Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II, 249-266, 2017 | 115 | 2017 |
| Experience and meaning in music performance M Clayton, B Dueck, L Leante Oxford University Press, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| Music and orientalism in the British empire, 1780s-1940s: portrayal of the east M Clayton, B Zon Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 | 95 | 2007 |
| Interpersonal entrainment in music performance: theory, method, and model M Clayton, K Jakubowski, T Eerola, PE Keller, A Camurri, G Volpe, ... Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 38 (2), 136-194, 2020 | 94 | 2020 |
| Inter-group entrainment in Afro-Brazilian Congado ritual G Lucas, M Clayton, L Leante Empirical musicology review 6 (2), 2011 | 86 | 2011 |
| Introduction: Towards a theory of musical meaning (in India and elsewhere) M Clayton Taylor & Francis Group 10 (1), 1-17, 2001 | 83 | 2001 |
| Entrainment, ethnography and musical interaction M Clayton Oxford University Press, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| Communication in Indian raga performance M Clayton Oxford University Press, 2005 | 66 | 2005 |
| The cultural study of music: a critical introduction R Middleton, M Clayton, T Herbert Newcastle University, 2003 | 61 | 2003 |
| Imagery, melody and gesture in cross-cultural perspective GA Fatone, M Clayton, L Leante, M Rahaim New perspectives on music and gesture, 203, 2011 | 56* | 2011 |
| Embodiment in music performance M Clayton, L Leante Oxford University Press, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
