OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mental health service provision in elite sport: An evaluation of the Australian Institute of Sport Mental Health Referral Network	45
Suicidal ideation among Chinese national team elite athletes	29
An inhibitory retrieval approach for maximizing exposure therapy in elite sport	24
« I won’t lie in my head it’s just ‘Fight, fight, fight’ »: relationships between emotional processes and attentional focus in a competitive context	21
Using a culturally humble approach to examine and address disordered eating in sport	19
Cultivating legacies and connections: A narrative analysis of Instagram stories of retired elite athlete mothers through an ethic of care lens	17
Coaching Generation Z: A response to McDougall et al.’s commentary	17
UK professional male cricketers’ mental health and support experiences: A qualitative exploration	16
A commentary: Aspiring athletes’ transition literacy and beyond	16
Coaching generation Z: A response to Gould et al. from a critical cultural perspective	16
Reimagining positive youth development and life skills in sport through a social justice lens	16
The role of self-care and professional quality of life in sustaining a long-lasting career in sport psychology: A qualitative exploration	14
“I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic	13
Exploring former NCAA Division I college athletes’ experiences with post-sport physical activity: A qualitative approach	12
Black Student-Athletes and racism pandemic: Building antiracist practices in athletics	12
“Supporting my daughter, the best way I can”: Parental support in youth golf	11
The usefulness of the useless: How ritualized behavior improves self-control under competition pressure	11
Two on a tightrope: the stress experiences of the romantic partners of professional athletes	10
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative	10
A proximal external focus does not benefit skilled skiers	10
Dialogue in athletics: A program evaluation of a social justice education initiative in high school sports	9
Brief report: Exploring the icing the kicker strategy in the NFL	9
From superhero to human: A narrative analysis of digital news stories of retirement from the NFL due to injury	9
A qualitative analysis of novice and expert mental performance consultants’ professional philosophies	9
Motivational self-talk mitigates the harmful impact of mental fatigue on endurance performance	9

Presentation of self, impression management and the period: A qualitative investigation of physically active women’s experiences in sport and exercise	9
Why do people cycle (a lot)? A multivariate approach on mental health, personality traits and motivation as determinants for cycling ambition	8
Lessons learned from meaningful work: Implications for understanding meaningfulness in elite/high performance sport	8
Māori exercise professionals: Using Indigenous knowledge to connect the space between performance and wellbeing	8
Exploring the meta-transitions of first level elite athletes in the Chinese Whole Nation System: A polyphonic reflective tale	8
“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
The lived experience of sport-related concussion: A collaborative inquiry in elite sport	7
Psychosocial demands and situational properties of the club-to-international transition in male youth football	7
Imagery training for athletes with low imagery abilities	7
A retrospective investigation of the perceived influence of coaches, parents and peers on talented football players’ motivation during development	7
Psychological skills training and perfectionism: A single-subject multiple baseline study	7
“It’s not handcuffing the athlete to success or failure”: Sport psychology practitioners’ use of nonspecific goals in applied contexts	7
Psychological stress and psychological well-being among sports coaches: A close proximity longitudinal daily diary study	7
Applied psychology of sport injury: Getting to—and moving across—The Valley of death	7
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	7
The pursuit of optimal dual career balance by athletes in women’s professional ice hockey	7
Coaching in the ‘alternate universe’ of U.S. Figure skating: A developmental perspective of need-supportive behavior in the coach-athlete relationship	7
Mental toughness in youth sport coaches: A phenomenological exploration	7
Athlete leader development: The perspectives of athlete leaders, teammates, and coaches	6
A randomized controlled study of mindful sport performance enhancement and psychological skills training with collegiate track and field athletes	6
A qualitative exploration of neophyte sport psychology practitioners self-care experiences and perceptions	6
Research note: Evaluating the efficacy of an online post event reflection tool in competitive sport	6
Student-athletes’ mood state profiles: the role of sports, sex, and performance level in sports and in school	6
Navigating psychological membership in sport organizations: Exploring sport employees’ identities	6
Confidentiality and surveillance challenges for psychologists working in men’s football academies in England	6
Emotional intelligence training program for adolescents involved in intensive training centers	6
Exploring stressors in elite rugby league (NRL/NRLW) players	6
Coaching for winning or holistic athlete development, or both? Validation of the two-dimensional Identity of Sport Coaches Scale (2-DISCS)	5
Managing vulnerabilities in practitioner decision-making within sport psychology services: Responding to the evidence base	5
No regrets: Former collegiate student-athletes’ reflections on regret	4
Mindful self-reflection as a strategy to support sustainable high-performance coaching: A mixed method study	4
Four domains for development for all (4D4D4All): A holistic, physical literacy framework	4
Playful sport design: A game changer?	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
Athletes’ motivational and emotional outcomes related to a Need-Supportive intervention in intensive training centers	4
“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
Development and psychometric properties of the supporting mental health in sport instrument	4
A season long investigation of social emotional learning associated with high school basketball participation	4
From mind to marksmanship: Harnessing brief mindfulness meditation to enhance attention control and performance in novice athletes	4
Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions	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
Body confident coaching: a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the acceptability of a web-based body image intervention for coaches of adolescent girls	4
What would you do? Developing, implementing and evaluating a coach bystander intervention to prevent sexual violence in youth sports clubs	3
“We are their last chance”: A case study of a college basketball environment in an American underserved community	3
Exploring the processes of evidence-informed decision-making in applied sport psychology	3
Experiences of high school stakeholders and student-athletes participating in an ongoing longitudinal life skills training program	3
An exploration of coaches’ and sport psychologists’ experiences of managing performance blocks	3
Considering the cost(s) of the game: Consumer behavior and parents in youth ice hockey	3
Parents in the parasport pathway: Parental experiences of facilitating their child’s engagement in competitive disability sport	3

Athletes’ perceptions of unsupportive parental behaviours in competitive female youth golf	3
An in-depth exploration of a positional subgroup in professional sport	3
Black Canadian university football players’ perspectives on the coach-athlete relationship	3
Is self-regulation key in reducing running-related injuries and chronic fatigue? A randomized controlled trial among long-distance runners	3
Building the “team behind the team”: A 21-month instrumental case study of the Swedish 2018 FIFA World Cup team	3
The Sport Psychology Canvas : Designing, adapting, and documenting Sport Psychology provisions in men’s football academies in England	3
Supporting parents of male academy footballers: An action research study	3