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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Suicidal ideation among Chinese national team elite athletes	51
Mental health service provision in elite sport: An evaluation of the Australian Institute of Sport Mental Health Referral Network	31
« I won’t lie in my head it’s just ‘Fight, fight, fight’ »: relationships between emotional processes and attentional focus in a competitive context	28
A commentary: Aspiring athletes’ transition literacy and beyond	21
Coaching Generation Z: A response to McDougall et al.’s commentary	18
An inhibitory retrieval approach for maximizing exposure therapy in elite sport	18
Using a culturally humble approach to examine and address disordered eating in sport	18
Coaching generation Z: A response to Gould et al. from a critical cultural perspective	18
Reimagining positive youth development and life skills in sport through a social justice lens	18
UK professional male cricketers’ mental health and support experiences: A qualitative exploration	17
“I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic	16
Cultivating legacies and connections: A narrative analysis of Instagram stories of retired elite athlete mothers through an ethic of care lens	14
Black Student-Athletes and racism pandemic: Building antiracist practices in athletics	13
Brief report: A proximal external focus does not benefit skilled skiers	13
“Supporting my daughter, the best way I can”: Parental support in youth golf	12
Exploring former NCAA Division I college athletes’ experiences with post-sport physical activity: A qualitative approach	12
Two on a tightrope: The stress experiences of the romantic partners of professional athletes	11
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative	11
The usefulness of the useless: How ritualized behavior improves self-control under competition pressure	11
Presentation of self, impression management and the period: A qualitative investigation of physically active women’s experiences in sport and exercise	10
A qualitative analysis of novice and expert mental performance consultants’ professional philosophies	10
Dialogue in athletics: A program evaluation of a social justice education initiative in high school sports	10
From superhero to human: A narrative analysis of digital news stories of retirement from the NFL due to injury	10
Motivational self-talk mitigates the harmful impact of mental fatigue on endurance performance	10
Performance safety: conceptualising psychological safety when errors have consequences	10

Exploring the meta-transitions of first level elite athletes in the Chinese Whole Nation System: A polyphonic reflective tale	9
Brief report: Exploring the icing the kicker strategy in the NFL	9
A retrospective investigation of the perceived influence of coaches, parents and peers on talented football players’ motivation during development	8
Māori exercise professionals: Using Indigenous knowledge to connect the space between performance and wellbeing	8
How do goal orientations and motivational climate interact to affect short-term performance and self-confidence in sport? A test of the matching hypothesis across three studies	8
Why do people cycle (a lot)? A multivariate approach on mental health, personality traits and motivation as determinants for cycling ambition	8
Division I level athletes respond more favorably to caring, task-involving climates while ego-involving climates trigger concerning psychophysiological stress responses during a brief experimental inv	7
The pursuit of optimal dual career balance by athletes in women’s professional ice hockey	7
Imagery training for athletes with low imagery abilities	7
Psychological stress and psychological well-being among sports coaches: A close proximity longitudinal daily diary study	7
Confidentiality and surveillance challenges for psychologists working in men’s football academies in England	7
“It’s not handcuffing the athlete to success or failure”: Sport psychology practitioners’ use of nonspecific goals in applied contexts	7
The lived experience of sport-related concussion: A collaborative inquiry in elite sport	7
Psychological skills training and perfectionism: A single-subject multiple baseline study	7
Applied psychology of sport injury: Getting to—and moving across—The Valley of death	7
Research note: Evaluating the efficacy of an online post event reflection tool in competitive sport	7
Coaching in the ‘alternate universe’ of U.S. Figure skating: A developmental perspective of need-supportive behavior in the coach-athlete relationship	7
“Are you here for performance or are you here for well-being?” Using participatory research to promote thriving in a British Olympic sport organization	7
Lessons learned from meaningful work: Implications for understanding meaningfulness in elite/high performance sport	7
Elite athletes report lower psychological safety and are less likely to report interpersonal violence compared to recreational athletes: A cross-sectional study	7
Psychosocial demands and situational properties of the club-to-international transition in male youth football	7
Emotional intelligence training program for adolescents involved in intensive training centers	7
A qualitative exploration of neophyte sport psychology practitioners self-care experiences and perceptions	6
Student-athletes’ mood state profiles: the role of sports, sex, and performance level in sports and in school	6
A randomized controlled study of mindful sport performance enhancement and psychological skills training with collegiate track and field athletes	6
Exploring stressors in elite rugby league (NRL/NRLW) players	6
Athlete leader development: The perspectives of athlete leaders, teammates, and coaches	6
Coaching for winning or holistic athlete development, or both? Validation of the two-dimensional Identity of Sport Coaches Scale (2-DISCS)	6
No regrets: Former collegiate student-athletes’ reflections on regret	5
Four domains for development for all (4D4D4All): A holistic, physical literacy framework	5
Process evaluation of Ahead of the Game: Underlying mechanisms of a sports-based mental health literacy intervention	5
Mindful self-reflection as a strategy to support sustainable high-performance coaching: A mixed method study	5
Navigating psychological membership in sport organizations: Exploring sport employees’ identities	5
Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions	5
From mind to marksmanship: Harnessing brief mindfulness meditation to enhance attention control and performance in novice athletes	5
Managing vulnerabilities in practitioner decision-making within sport psychology services: Responding to the evidence base	5
“Being a woman in the men’s game, it’s brutal”: a longitudinal photo-elicitation exploration of a woman football coach’s well-being	4
Special Olympics athletes’ experiences of mental health and help-seeking	4
Self-regulating recovery: Athlete perspectives on implementing recovery from elite endurance training	4
Development and psychometric properties of the supporting mental health in sport instrument	4
Playful sport design: A game changer?	4
A season long investigation of social emotional learning associated with high school basketball participation	4
Body confident coaching: a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the acceptability of a web-based body image intervention for coaches of adolescent girls	4
Part I of a two-step mixed-methods approach in developing the Growth Talent Mindsets for Sports Coaches Intervention: The design and targeting of the intervention	4
Considering the cost(s) of the game: Consumer behavior and parents in youth ice hockey	3
A sport-specific ACT group intervention for promoting athletes’ mental well-being: a randomized controlled trial	3
Building the “team behind the team”: A 21-month instrumental case study of the Swedish 2018 FIFA World Cup team	3
An interpretive description of the emotions experienced by vocational dance students and their use of emotion regulation strategies	3
Is self-regulation key in reducing running-related injuries and chronic fatigue? A randomized controlled trial among long-distance runners	3
Exploring the processes of evidence-informed decision-making in applied sport psychology	3

“We are their last chance”: A case study of a college basketball environment in an American underserved community	3
Evaluation of a compassion-based intervention targeting high-performance coaches	3
Parents in the parasport pathway: Parental experiences of facilitating their child’s engagement in competitive disability sport	3
What would you do? Developing, implementing and evaluating a coach bystander intervention to prevent sexual violence in youth sports clubs	3
Sport injury psychology: An overview and introduction to the special issue	2
Construction and communication of evidence-based video narratives in elite sport: Knowledge translation of sports injury experiences	2
The Sport Psychology Canvas : Designing, adapting, and documenting Sport Psychology provisions in men’s football academies in England	2
“We’re all in this together. We’re a real team.” Perceptions of powerchair sport in Canada	2
Supporting parents of male academy footballers: An action research study	2
Athletes’ perceptions of unsupportive parental behaviours in competitive female youth golf	2
Cultural competence in a multinational group of sport psychology professionals	2
Black Canadian university football players’ perspectives on the coach-athlete relationship	2
An in-depth exploration of a positional subgroup in professional sport	2
An exploration of coaches’ and sport psychologists’ experiences of managing performance blocks	2
From thoughts to action: Athletes’ perspectives on anti-doping legitimacy, and their behavioral support for anti-doping policies	2
The what, why, and how of goal setting: A review of the goal-setting process in applied sport psychology practice	2
Experienced emotions, emotion regulation strategies, and regulation depletion in collective team collapse and performance recovery situations	2
Experiences of high school stakeholders and student-athletes participating in an ongoing longitudinal life skills training program	2
Professional training and development: The bedrock of ethical, competent, and sustainable sport psychology	2
Differentiated pathways in upper secondary school. World-class Swedish athletes experiences	2