British Journal of Sports Medicine

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Sports Medicine is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fatigue recovery and connected factors following paediatric concussion904
Female athletes with ADHD: time to level the playing field742
Evolving roles of medical and healthcare professionals: where do we go from here?501
Exercise as medicine in hip osteoarthritis: an investigation of exercise type, muscle power and predictive factors (PhD Academy Award)349
Infographic. Having pelvic health conversations within sports settings256
Polygenic risk analysis in physical activity and health: why are the same results interpreted differently?210
Keep moving: overcoming physical, mental and pandemic challenges to stay active199
From Fitbits to chatbots: can digital humans help solve the physical inactivity pandemic?195
Impaired neuromusculoskeletal response to training stimuli associated with low energy availability: a systematic review154
Applying the principles of risk management in male professional football: a feasibility study, introducing the Aspetar sports injury and illness risk management tool148
Youth athletes’ quests for gold: does opportunity supersede undue risk?140
Infographic. Getting to the bottom of saddle sores: an infographic139
Applying systems thinking approaches to investigate the complex interrelationships of risk factors affecting acute non-contact lower limb injuries in team sports (PhD Academy Award)138
Socioecological approach for building stronger youth for life138
Effect of a coaching intervention to enhance physical activity and prevent falls in community-dwelling people aged 60+ years: a cluster randomised controlled trial134
An update to terminology describing abnormal uterine bleeding in female athletes: facilitating cross-disciplinary health care132
Efficacy of the FIFA cooling break heat policy during an intermittent treadmill football simulation in hot conditions in trained males115
Changes in physical activity and all-cause mortality among individuals with dementia: a cohort study using the National Health Insurance Service Database in Korea112
Forecasting feels-like temperatures as a strategy to reduce heat illnesses during sport events110
Retraction: A cause for concern?103
Role of sit-to-stand muscle power in healthy ageing: assessing validity, clinical relevance, decline and interventions in older adults with and without chronic conditions (PhD Academy Award)103
Is it time for evidence-based protective strategies for heading in youth football?102
Orthopedic Humanitarian Initiatives (Ortho HI), Inc: facilitating movement by connecting cultures97
Grading the evidence on the effects of exercise interventions in children and adolescents during and beyond cancer treatment: an umbrella review of systematic reviews with meta-analyses95
Make or break: psychotropic medications have off-label effects on neuromuscular performance95
Body composition, exercise-related performance parameters and associated health factors of transgender women, cisgender women and cisgender men volleyball players95
Active commuting and atherosclerosis in a population-based sample of middle-aged adults: the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage study (SCAPIS)94
Does a corticosteroid injection plus exercise or exercise alone add to the effect of patient advice and a heel cup for patients with plantar fasciopathy? A randomised clinical trial94
Infographic. All health professionals should talk about physical activity with patients93
Sports and exercise medicine rising to the challenge86
Protecting the stars of tomorrow: do international cardiovascular preparticipation screening policies account for the paediatric athlete? A systematic review and quality appraisal85
Adherence to aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 3.3 million participants across 32 countries83
International Delphi consensus on bone stress injuries in athletes81
Effective fall prevention exercise in residential aged care: an intervention component analysis from an updated systematic review81
Meniscal procedures are not increased with delayed ACL reconstruction and rehabilitation: results from a randomised controlled trial79
International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on acute respiratory illness in athletes part 1: acute respiratory infections78
Long-term quality of life, work limitation, physical activity, economic cost and disease burden following ACL and meniscal injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis for the OPTIKNEE consensus76
The intention-behaviour gap in physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the action control framework74
Accelerometer-measured intensity-specific physical activity, genetic risk and incident type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study73
Prevalence of and factors associated with osteoarthritis and pain in retired Olympians compared with the general population: part 2 – the spine and upper limb72
Women’s preferences for pelvic floor screening in sport and exercise: a mixed-methods study integrating survey and interview data in Australian women70
Strength training in later life: narrowing the evidence-to-practice gap70
London International Consensus and Delphi study on hamstring injuries part 1: classification70
Sport and exercise medicine/physiotherapy publishing has a gender/sex equity problem: we need action now!70
Sport PRactice and its Effects on aortic size and valve function in bicuspid Aortic valve Disease: a cross-sectional report from the SPREAD study69
Physical activity, sedentary time and breast cancer risk: a Mendelian randomisation study69
Injury incidence according to athlete impairment type during the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympic Games: a combined analysis of 101 108 athlete days68
Injury epidemiology and prevention in youth rugby union (PhD Academy Award)67
It’s high time for a change65
Hearts, knees and reducing disease through exercise – what is happening this year in the world of sport and exercise medicine in Australasia?65
Pelvic organ prolapse and physical activity: directions for future research65
Severe pincer morphology is associated with incident hip osteoarthritis: prospective individual participant data from 18 935 hips from the World COACH consortium63
Moving for a healthier mind and stronger community: how Je Bouge Pour Mon Moral transforms lives in France61
Making a splash: how to conduct on-water cardiopulmonary resuscitation in sailing sports – guidance from SailGP60
Comprehensive evaluation of training in long-distance runners (PhD Academy Award)59
Correction: Review of the scientific rationale, development and validation of the International Olympic Committee Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport Clinical Assessment Tool: V.2 (IOC REDs CAT2)—by a56
Concussion in football: the case for temporary concussion substitutions56
Association between physical activity and the time course of cancer recurrence in stage III colon cancer54
Dose-response effects of aerobic exercise on reducing depression in patients with chronic illness and comorbid depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis53
From BASEM to CSEM: from membership association to multiprofessional medical College53
Considerations for a women’s rehabilitation programme following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a concept mapping approach to enhance women’s outcomes52
Sport and exercise medicine through a new lens: integrating behavioural medicine for enhanced athlete care52
Firing up the rehabilitation: a holistic approach emphasising complex practice environments to change exercise behaviour51
Mid-tarsal (Chopart) joint ligamentous injury51
Maternal and fetal responses to acute high-intensity resistance exercise during pregnancy50
Optimising exercise training prescription in cardiac rehabilitation beyond clinical guideline recommendations50
Exercise: the ugly duckling of diabetes treatment?50
Pressure points: ethical dilemmas in sports mental health research involving athletes50
Successful 10-second one-legged stance performance predicts survival in middle-aged and older individuals49
Effects of muscle strength training combined with aerobic training versus aerobic training alone on cardiovascular disease risk indicators in patients with coronary artery disease: a systematic review48
High-intensity interval training improves cardiovascular and physical health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multicentre randomised controlled trial48
Surveillance of athlete mental health symptoms and disorders: a supplement to the International Olympic Committee’s consensus statement on injury and illness surveillance47
Diagnostic evaluation and cardiopulmonary exercise test findings in young athletes with persistent symptoms following COVID-1947
Tale of quadriceps and hamstring muscle strength after ACL reconstruction: a systematic review with longitudinal and multivariate meta-analysis47
Injuries in elite male youth football and athletics: growth and maturation as potential risk factors (PhD Academy Award)46
Images in sports medicine: spondylolysis46
Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in athletes: more than self-rating scales and stimulants – key messages from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement45
Advancing global equity, diversity and inclusion in sport and exercise medicine consensus and research: deliberate, thoughtful steps from the FAIR consensus44
Reflections on the past: seeking gold standards for the future – 50 years of Physios in Sport44
Two-year MRI-defined structural damage and patient-reported outcomes following surgery or exercise for meniscal tears in young adults44
“The pain isn’t the hardest challenge… it’s the frustration at how much it affects my day-to-day life, my mental health and my ability to train”: a qualitative thematic analysis of elite athletes’ liv44
Exercise rehabilitation for mid-portion Achilles tendinopathy: a critique of evidence and assumptions (PhD Academy Award)43
’We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some are on super-yachts. Some have just the one oar.’ How COVID-19 exaggerated global inequities in professional sport43
Evaluating workforce needs: an investigation of healthcare professionals’ attitudes, beliefs and preparedness towards the management of Para athlete mental health at the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Pa43
Prevalence of and factors associated with osteoarthritis and pain in retired Olympians compared with the general population: part 1 – the lower limb42
Prediction of secondary ACL injury in female athletes using 2D video-based measurements obtained during dynamic tasks: a retrospective case–control study42
Health And Performance Promotion in Youth (HAPPY) hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomised trial: comparison of two strategies to implement an injury prevention exercise programme in Dan41
Physical activity paradox: could inflammation be a key factor?41
Retraction: Paediatric sport related concussion pilot study41
Cardiac player health and safety: a call to action40
ICON 2023: International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium Consensus – the core outcome set for Achilles tendinopathy (COS-AT) using a systematic review and a Delphi study of professional participants40
Adolescent maturation and injury risk in an elite ballet school: a 7-year cohort study of 506 students40
Structural and social determinants of mental health inequities among collegiate athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic40
Workload, injury prevention and the quest for greater pitching velocity in adolescent baseball players: the sports medicine conundrum40
Causal inference in physical activity epidemiology research: an opportunity for better evidence39
Impact of COVID-19 on the physical activity, quality of life and mental health of adolescent athletes: a 2-year evaluation of over 17 000 athletes39
It is time to improve our research design, reporting and interpretation of sex and gender in exercise science and sports medicine research39
Injury mechanisms and situational patterns of severe lower limb muscle injuries in male professional football (soccer) players: a systematic video analysis study on 103 cases38
Effects of reducing sedentary behaviour by increasing physical activity, on cognitive function, brain function and structure across the lifespan: a systematic review and meta-analysis38
Resistance training in pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis of pregnancy, delivery, fetal and pelvic floor outcomes and call to action37
Public health guidelines for physical activity during pregnancy from around the world: a scoping review36
Effect of sport on health in people aged 60 years and older: a systematic review with meta-analysis35
Recommendations for use of extracorporeal shockwave therapy in sports medicine: an international modified Delphi study35
Machine learning approaches to injury risk prediction in sport: a scoping review with evidence synthesis34
Olympic and Paralympic coaches’ perceived barriers to mental health help-seeking: a concept mapping study34
Effects of a 16-week home-based exercise training programme on health-related quality of life, functional capacity, and persistent symptoms in survivors of severe/critical COVID-19: a randomised contr34
How my ACL injury recovery journey led me to the medical field?33
En route to the 6th World Congress of Sports PT, Bern 202633
Exercise prescription for the prevention and treatment of arterial hypertension: targeting blood pressure is not necessarily the goal33
Harnessing innovation to advance adaptive and para sport32
Association between change in cardiorespiratory fitness and prostate cancer incidence and mortality in 57 652 Swedish men32
Correction: Does surgery reduce knee osteoarthritis, meniscal injury and subsequent complications compared with non-surgery after ACL rupture with at least 10 years follow-up? A31
Correction: Body checking in non-elite adolescent ice hockey leagues: it is never too late for policy change aiming to protect the health of adolescents31
Genetic liability to sedentary behaviour and cardiovascular disease incidence in the FinnGen and HUNT cohorts31
Effects of different aerobic high-intensity interval training prescription approaches on cardiorespiratory fitness and performance in distance runners (PhD Academy Award)31
Integrating sports pharmacists into multidisciplinary healthcare teams: optimising athlete health and performance31
From classroom to court: university sports therapists at the Kabaddi World Cup 202531
Football clubs and their ‘hive mind’: distributed situation awareness (DSA) and its role in injury management30
Associations of the ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity pattern with mild dementia: findings from the Mexico City Prospective Study30
Correction: Does disallowing body checking in non-elite 13- to 14-year-old ice hockey leagues reduce rates of injury and concussion? A cohort study in two Canadian provinces30
Physical activity implementation for cancer care and prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa: a call to action30
What tests should be used to assess functional performance in youth and young adults following anterior cruciate ligament or meniscal injury? A systematic review of measurement properties for the OPTI30
Concussion and depressive symptoms in high school students: impact of physical activity and substance use30
Delayed body literacy in elite female athletes: a lived experience at age 3029
Standardising health history and injury surveillance of participants in endurance events: a modified Delphi consensus statement from the AMSSM runner health consortium29
Considerations for improving patient and professional participant diversity in sports medicine, rehabilitation and sports science research29
Effects of adding exercise to usual care in patients with either hypertension, type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis29
Advancing gender equity in sport: a scoping review of international sport federation policies for pregnant, postpartum and parenting elite athletes29
Barriers and enablers influencing female athlete return-to-sport postpartum: a scoping review29
Developing a sexual assault emergency action plan: modified Delphi consensus recommendations from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine29
Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome: application of new criteria to a cohort exposed to repetitive head impacts28
Physical activity and life expectancy: a life-table analysis28
Effectiveness of a warm-up programme to reduce injuries in youth volleyball players: a quasi-experiment28
Does sedentary behaviour cause spinal pain in children and adolescents? A systematic review with meta-analysis28
Improving social support among sports medicine practitioners: a call to action28
Do biomechanical foot-based interventions reduce patellofemoral joint loads in adults with and without patellofemoral pain or osteoarthritis? A systematic review and meta-analysis28
Impact of postpartum exercise on pelvic floor disorders and diastasis recti abdominis: a systematic review and meta-analysis28
Effects of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and sprint interval training (SIT) on fat oxidation during exercise: a systematic review and meta-analysis28
Social enterprise model for more equitable musculoskeletal care: introducing Freehab27
Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction27
Resilience as a dog musher: an unyielding journey to triumph over adversity27
Cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong and consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality among adults: an overview of meta-analyses representing over 20.9 million observations from 199 unique cohort 27
Sleep and mental health following retirement from sport (PhD Academy Award)26
Navigating the Olympic journey—presenting a contemporary paradigm for elite-level youth athletes26
We stand with the players: a call to action for the football community26
Isometric exercise training and resting arterial blood pressure: implications for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PhD Academy Award)26
Limitations of athlete-exposures as a construct for comparisons of injury rates by gender/sex: a narrative review26
Making movement matter26
The days of generalised joint hypermobility assessment in all patients with ACL injury are here26
Role of physical exercise in improving pulmonary function: a radiomic perspective (PhD Academy Award)26
Impact, diagnostic imaging and prognosis of Achilles tendinopathy (PhD Academy Award)26
Sound of synergy: ultrasound and artificial intelligence in sports medicine25
Improving treatment in patients scheduled for total knee arthroplasty: the role of preoperative low-load blood flow restricted resistance training (PhD Academy Award)25
Dose-response interplay between light and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on all-cause mortality risk: a causal inference analysis25
In-match strategies to mitigate the effect of heat on football (soccer) players’ health and performance25
Bringing reproductive, pelvic and breast health to light: insights from the Health of Elite Retired Australian female athletes survey (HER-Aus)25
Beyond the benefits: understanding and addressing exercise addiction in today’s era of fitness25
Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with cognitive function in late adulthood: baseline findings from the IGNITE study25
Do not neglect injury severity and burden when assessing the effect of sports injury prevention interventions: time to paint the whole picture24
Time to monitor the mental health of esports athletes24
Optimal movement behaviours for postconcussion symptom recovery in children and adolescents: a compositional analysis of the PedCARE cohort23
Higher odds of meniscectomy compared with meniscus repair in a young patient population with increased neighbourhood disadvantage23
Stepping into Play: a FIFA decision aid for football participation after childbirth23
Gait, physical activity and tibiofemoral cartilage damage: a longitudinal machine learning analysis in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study23
Road to FAIR: where are all the female, woman and girl athletes?23
Association between estimated cardiorespiratory fitness and breast cancer: a prospective cohort study23
Evaluation of periacetabular osteotomy in patients with hip dysplasia: an investigation of adverse events, functional performance, patient-reported outcomes and radiographic measurements (PhD Academy 23
Systematic video analysis of 57 hamstring injuries in women’s football (soccer): injury mechanisms, situational patterns and biomechanics22
Aerobic exercise interventions for promoting cardiovascular health and mobility after stroke: a systematic review with Bayesian network meta-analysis22
Yoga-based interventions may reduce anxiety symptoms in anxiety disorders and depression symptoms in depressive disorders: a systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regression22
Psychosocial predictors of doping intentions and use in sport and exercise: a systematic review and meta-analysis22
How race and socioeconomic status moderate the association between moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study with compositional data22
Review of the scientific rationale, development and validation of the International Olympic Committee Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport Clinical Assessment Tool: V.2 (IOC REDs CAT2)—by a subgroup of22
Exercise training and resting blood pressure: a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials22
Towards safer and smarter boxing: technology, health and performance22
Patient’s voice: perspective and persistence21
Investigating the autoregulation of applied blood flow restriction training pressures in healthy, physically active adults: an intervention study evaluating acute training responses and safety21
Diagnostic effectiveness of the Sport Mental Health Assessment Tool 1 supplemented with a brief clinical intake interview in a cohort of Polish elite Olympic athletes21
Navigating the challenges: working as a sports medicine physician during pregnancy and postpartum21
Use of extracorporeal shockwave therapies for athletes and physically active individuals: a systematic review21
The importance of safe physical activity for all21
Hamstring injury rates have increased during recent seasons and now constitute 24% of all injuries in men’s professional football: the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study from 2001/02 to 2021/2221
Service spotlight: Run For Life Trinidad and Tobago21
Learning from ‘lived expertise’: engaging athletes and patients in sport and exercise medicine research and policy20
Comprehensive assessment and classification of upper and lower limb pain in athletes: a scoping review20
Dr Jiwu Chen: providing a full range of services to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic20
Infographic. Exercise training and resting blood pressure: a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials20
Moving the needle: a call to action for sports injury and illness prevention researchers to embrace knowledge translation principles20
‘Tackling’ safety through a systems thinking approach: building safety culture within sport20
Inequalities across the physical activity landscape: the need for ‘structural humility’ to optimise sports and exercise medicine20
Exercise in axial spondyloarthritis: a missed opportunity in routine care19
Rehabilitation after arthroscopic shoulder stabilisation: are we letting patients down by being too conservative?19
Acute and regular exercise effects on myokines and cancer suppression in survivors of breast cancer (PhD Academy Award)19
Time to fund exercise programmes for cancer survivors: the evidence is mounting19
Genetics, gender and justice: the legal implications of genetic testing for gender eligibility in sport19
Wearable device-measured physical activity and incident cardiovascular disease in cancer survivors19
New framework for the continuum of concussion and functional neurological disorder18
Ms-represented: strategies to increase female representation in sports cardiology research18
Goal setting in youth sport: are we unintentionally contributing to dropout?18
Under-representation of female athletes in research informing influential concussion consensus and position statements: an evidence review and synthesis18
Using reporting guidelines in sports and exercise medicine research: why and how to raise the bar?18
International Delphi study of clinical and exercise professionals’ opinion of physical activity prescreening and contraindications for participating in postpartum physical activity18
European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 countries gathered by the FitBack ne18
Primary surgery versus primary rehabilitation for treating anterior cruciate ligament injuries: a living systematic review and meta-analysis18
Long-term follow up from the Harvard Alumni Health Study: collegiate sport participation in males is associated with higher physical activity throughout midlife18
Introducing the Sport Concussion Office Assessment Tool 6 (SCOAT6)17
Just start and keep training! What is the best resistance training prescription for strength and hypertrophy?17
Retraction: The forgotten DOMS: recognising delayed muscle soreness in hand rehabilitation17
Exercise and physical activity after an osteoporotic vertebral fracture17
Tackling breast issues in contact sports17
All-cause mortality risks among participants in mass-participation sporting events17
Reversing the state of arousal and accelerating sleep onset: pharmacological and non-pharmacological manipulation of sleep in athletes17
Effect of exercise snacks on fitness and cardiometabolic health in physically inactive individuals: systematic review and meta-analysis17
Melting pot medicine17
Planting the seeds of power: paediatric powerpenia as a lifecourse research priority17
Digital intervention for increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour in cancer survivors: a trial within the Cancer Prevention Study-3 cohort16
Sports to empower rural youth in India: the Sondara Gurukul school16
Effects of low-load and high-load resistance training combined with aerobic training in patients with coronary artery disease: a dose-dependent randomised, controlled trial (PhD Academy Award)16
Low socioeconomic status is associated with worse treatment outcomes in patients with Achilles tendinopathy16
Clarifying the real challenge: adherence, not efficacy, is the barrier to exercise as medicine16
Promoting physical activity in patient populations through curriculum change in undergraduate Lithuanian medical schools and schools of health: the VANGUARD project16
Forward together16
Consensus methods in patellofemoral pain: how rigorous are they? A scoping review15
Running away from clinical heterogeneity15
Durability of running economy in well-trained runners: the influence of performance, training status and a strength intervention (PhD Academy Award)15
Snow sports-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting epidemiological data on injury and illness in sports15
Internal consistency reliability of mental health questionnaires in college student athletes15
International olympic committee relative energy deficiency in sport clinical assessment tool 2 (IOC REDs CAT2)15
Factors predicting disordered eating and the prevalence of eating disorders in adolescent elite athletes, trained athletes and a reference group: a prospective controlled two-step study15
‘More than likely the men come first. That’s just very frustrating’. A qualitative exploration of contextual factors affecting the implementation of injury prevention initiatives and the provision of 15
Safety as justification: gear-ratio regulation in professional cycling and the tendency towards restrictive governance15
Effectiveness of an educational intervention targeting homophobic language use by young male athletes: a cluster randomised controlled trial15
Heat-related risk at Paris 2024: a proposal for classification and review of International Federations policies15
Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness in youth and the incidence of site-specific cancer in men: a cohort study with register linkage15
Contexts, behavioural mechanisms and outcomes to optimise therapeutic exercise prescription for persistent low back pain: a realist review15
Incremental cartilage damage of the ankle: steps towards an evidence-based personalised approach (PhD Academy Award)15
‘Considering the reality, I am very lucky’: how professional players and staff perceive injury prevention and performance protection in women’s football15
Transform-Us! cluster RCT: 18-month and 30-month effects on children’s physical activity, sedentary time and cardiometabolic risk markers15
Standing on the shoulders of giants15
Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study15
Epidemiology of musculoskeletal injury in professional and amateur golfers: a systematic review and meta-analysis15
A BJSM edition that’s young and hip!14
Modifiable risk factors for lower-extremity injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis for the Female, woman and/or girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) consensus14
Impact of postpartum physical activity on cardiometabolic health, breastfeeding, injury and infant growth and development: a systematic review and meta-analysis14
Applying diffusion innovation theory to evaluate the attributes of the new tackle law in rugby football codes14
Relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs): the role of the physiotherapist14
Bridging the gap between strengthspan and lifespan14
Exercise as medicine for the brain: moving towards precise and personalised recommendations14
Clinical importance of simple muscular fitness tests to predict long-term health conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 94 cohort studies14
Identifying latent classes of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) consequences in a sample of collegiate female cross country runners14
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