in 1993, mcpherson co-established the peer-reviewed journal "research studies in music education", of which he is currently associate editor, and the "asia-pacific symposium on music education research" in 1997. he has served on the editorial boards of all the major english language research journals in music education., mcpherson's wider academic work has been cited over 7000 times. he has supervised numerous master's degree and phd students, many of whom have gone on to become distinguished researchers in their own right.