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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mental health service provision in elite sport: An evaluation of the Australian Institute of Sport Mental Health Referral Network	43
Parental strategies for supporting children’s psychosocial development within and beyond elite sport	21
Former scholastic athletes perceptions of sport-based personal development: A 50 year retrospective case study	20
The state of diversity in the Association for Applied Sport Psychology: Gaining momentum or still swimming upstream?	18
Professional training and development: The bedrock of ethical, competent, and sustainable sport psychology	17
Supporting parents of male academy footballers: An action research study	15
Sports officials and parents as spectators: Diffusing tensions on the sidelines	14
Developing a ‘clarity of mind’: Exploring a behaviour-based approach to mental toughness development in international youth football	13
No regrets: Former collegiate student-athletes’ reflections on regret	13
“Are you here for performance or are you here for well-being?” Using participatory research to promote thriving in a British Olympic sport organization	12
Mindful self-reflection as a strategy to support sustainable high-performance coaching: A mixed method study	12
Conflict between a captain and star player: An ethnodrama of interpersonal conflict experiences	12
Journey to the top: The non-linear path of identity foreclosure and exploration and its implications for mental health in female professional athletes	11
The quest for professional self-understanding: Sense making and the interpersonal nature of applied sport psychology practice	10
The effects of the Mindfulness, Acceptance and Self-Compassion in Sport (MASCS) program on the sport anxiety and self-compassion of elite tennis players	9
Athletes’ perceptions of unsupportive parental behaviours in competitive female youth golf	9
Experienced emotions, emotion regulation strategies, and regulation depletion in collective team collapse and performance recovery situations	9
Athletes’ motivational and emotional outcomes related to a Need-Supportive intervention in intensive training centers	9
Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions	8
Exploring runners’ perspectives of potential strategies for flow interventions	8
Fighting the system: Psychology consultants’ experiences of working with cases of maltreatment in sport	8
An exploration of coaches’ and sport psychologists’ experiences of managing performance blocks	8
An in-depth exploration of a positional subgroup in professional sport	8
The Gold Medal Profile for Sport Psychology (GMP-SP)	8
Co-designing with high-performance athletes and stakeholders: The AHEAD intervention for personal development	8

Coaching Generation Z: A response to McDougall et al.’s commentary	7
“I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic	7
The pursuit of optimal dual career balance by athletes in women’s professional ice hockey	7
Enhancing wellbeing, long-term development, and performance in youth sport: Insights from experienced applied sport psychologists working with young athletes in the United Kingdom	7
Editorial	7
Suicidal ideation among Chinese national team elite athletes	7
Cultural competence in a multinational group of sport psychology professionals	6
Playful sport design: A game changer?	6
Special Olympics athletes’ experiences of mental health and help-seeking	6
An inhibitory retrieval approach for maximizing exposure therapy in elite sport	6
Development and psychometric properties of the supporting mental health in sport instrument	6
Coaching generation Z: A response to Gould et al. from a critical cultural perspective	6
UK professional male cricketers’ mental health and support experiences: A qualitative exploration	6
Sport injury psychology: An overview and introduction to the special issue	5
Psychological skills training and perfectionism: A single-subject multiple baseline study	5
Team resilience in high-performance women’s football: Contextual stressors and opportunities for development	5
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	5
Using a culturally humble approach to examine and address disordered eating in sport	5
Construction and communication of evidence-based video narratives in elite sport: Knowledge translation of sports injury experiences	5
The what, why, and how of goal setting: A review of the goal-setting process in applied sport psychology practice	5
From thoughts to action: Athletes’ perspectives on anti-doping legitimacy, and their behavioral support for anti-doping policies	5
Cultivating legacies and connections: A narrative analysis of Instagram stories of retired elite athlete mothers through an ethic of care lens	5
“Mindset: performing under pressure” – a multimodal cognitive-behavioural intervention to enhance the well-being and performance of young athletes	5
A season long investigation of social emotional learning associated with high school basketball participation	5
A balancing act: Sport psychologist insights into supporting athlete mental health in elite sport	5
Exploring the behavioral indicators of resilience in professional academy youth soccer	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
Self-regulating recovery: Athlete perspectives on implementing recovery from elite endurance training	4
Reimagining positive youth development and life skills in sport through a social justice lens	4
« I won’t lie in my head it’s just ‘Fight, fight, fight’ »: relationships between emotional processes and attentional focus in a competitive context	4
The role of self-care and professional quality of life in sustaining a long-lasting career in sport psychology: A qualitative exploration	4
Navigating the winds of change on the smooth sea - The interaction of feedback and emotional disruption on the talent pathway	4
Social support among older adults in group physical activity programs	4
The lived experience of sport-related concussion: A collaborative inquiry in elite sport	4
Support for athletes with eating psychopathology symptoms: Exploring the views of athletes, coaches and sport practitioners	4
Former NCAA Division I athletes’ perceptions of intervention components to improve post-sport physical activity	3
“It’s not handcuffing the athlete to success or failure”: Sport psychology practitioners’ use of nonspecific goals in applied contexts	3
Development and preliminary validation of the sports competition rumination scale (SCRS)	3
Black Student-Athletes and racism pandemic: Building antiracist practices in athletics	3
Exploring former NCAA Division I college athletes’ experiences with post-sport physical activity: A qualitative approach	3
Does knowledge relate to action?: The connection between mental health literacy, self-stigma, attitudes, and intentions for NCAA coaches	3
A proximal external focus does not benefit skilled skiers	3
“Supporting my daughter, the best way I can”: Parental support in youth golf	3
Body confident coaching: a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the acceptability of a web-based body image intervention for coaches of adolescent girls	3
An ecological momentary assessment of the stress and coping experiences of dual-career badminton athletes	3
Effects of a multifaceted team goal-setting intervention for youth volleyball teams	3
What is quality youth sport programming? A Delphi study of international scholar perspectives	3
Maximum aerobic speed as a way to improve social interactions in rugby union	3
Considering the cost(s) of the game: Consumer behavior and parents in youth ice hockey	2
Effects of app-based imagery training on imagery skills and technical performance in junior national squash athletes	2

“We are their last chance”: A case study of a college basketball environment in an American underserved community	2
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative	2
Coaching strategies to develop desired psychological attributes within academy soccer players	2
The usefulness of the useless: How ritualized behavior improves self-control under competition pressure	2
Beyond “a good fit”: Examining effective mentorship for BIPOC practitioners in a predominantly white profession	2
Parents in the parasport pathway: Parental experiences of facilitating their child’s engagement in competitive disability sport	2
Goal-setting practices in sport psychology: An investigation into practitioner experiences	2
Potential moderators and mediators of intervention effects in a sport-based mental health literacy and resilience program for adolescent men	2
Is self-regulation key in reducing running-related injuries and chronic fatigue? A randomized controlled trial among long-distance runners	2
Exploring the barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking behaviours in British elite track and field athletes	2
Recommendations to promote mental health in dual career development environments: An integrated knowledge translation approach	2
Coaching Generation Z: Practice from a different perspective and base	2