OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Physical Education Review 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts	32
Beginning, rise, fall, and comeback: Exploring the journey of a physical education teacher community in South Korea	31
Information and communication technologies in physical education: Exploring the association between role modeling and digital literacy	28
Universal design for learning in physical education: Overview and critical reflection	24
Formative assessment in physical education: teachers’ experiences when designing and implementing formative assessment activities	23
Exploring social justice pedagogies in physical education in Austria: Teaching practices for diversity and equity	22
Students’ perceptions of teaching styles use and motivation to participate in PE: A multigroup analysis of the mediating role of basic psychological needs	20
“We have limited time, so it's a zero-sum game”: Influence of secondary organizational socialization on the forms of physical education teacher education provided by European, Asian, and North America	20
A three-legged stool: Teachers’ views of Junior Cycle Physical Education curriculum change	20
The process(es) of learning about teaching using models-based practice: Pre-service teachers’ experiences	19
Fitting in or standing out? The organisational socialisation of early career physical education specialism graduates through a micropolitical lens	17
Relationships between students’ individual interest, achievement goals, perceived competence and situational interest: A cluster analysis in swimming	17
Physical education teachers’ perceptions and operationalisations of personal and social development goals in primary education	17
Re-imagining performance spaces and locations in ecological dynamics: Implications for pedagogical practices in physical education	15
Working with trauma-affected young people in secondary schools: Exploring ‘self-care’ with pre-service physical education teachers	14
The association of perceived mattering and emotions with physical educator teacher resilience	14
That's what I like! Fostering enjoyment in primary physical education	14
The relationship between occupational socialization factors and in-service physical educators’ reported use of sport education	14
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education	13
Trans-Contextual Model Predicting Change in Out-of-School Physical Activity: A One-Year Longitudinal Study	13
The if, why and how of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom	12
Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling: A Deleuzian perspective	12
Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school–university partnership	11
Understandings and enactments of social justice pedagogies in Swedish physical education and health practice	11
Preservice physical education teachers’ perceptions of initial teacher education	11

The role of teaching experience and year level in shaping pre-service PE teachers’ efficacy	11
‘I am finding my path’: A case study of Swedish novice physical education teachers’ experiences when managing the realities and challenges of their first years in the profession	10
Adaptation and testing of the factorial structure of the Achievement Emotional Questionnaire-Short to the Spanish context of physical education classes	10
Effects of a two-stage physical education teacher education programme on preservice teachers’ specialised content knowledge and students’ game-play in a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game appro	10
Investigating preservice classroom teachers’ practices and views about teaching physical education lessons: An exploratory case study	9
Obstacle course-based versus traditional physical education: Which promotes more physical activity and less sedentary behaviour?	9
Physical education pre-service teachers’ perceptions of learning about the spectrum of teaching styles and its role in their pedagogical awareness and practice	9
‘Involve me, and I learn’: Effects of social status on students’ physical activity, skill, and knowledge during group work	9
Swimming competence of 9–10-year-old Norwegian primary school children: A cross-sectional study of physical education	9
When teachers Google physical literacy: A cartography of controversies analysis	9
Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature	9
Adolescents’ enjoyment in face-to-face physical education during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Bildung: A German student-centered approach to health and physical education	8
Relationships of a Cooperative Learning intervention in physical education with children's self-perception dimensions	8
Students’ perceptions of physical education teachers’ (de)motivating styles via the circumplex approach: Differences by gender, grade level, experiences, intention to be active, and learning	8
Understanding (and extending) the conceptual boundaries of policy research in physical education: A scoping review	8
How is observed (de)motivating teaching associated with student motivation and device-based physical activity during physical education?	8
‘Let them do PE!’ The ‘becoming’ of Swedish physical education in the age of COVID-19	8
The transformation of ball games as pedagogic discourse within physical education teacher education	8
The role of marginalisation and role stressors in physical education teachers’ perceived mattering	8
An analysis of content development in physical education: Preschool teachers’ selection of instructional tasks	8
‘The teacher could correct me without being there’: Adapting distance education approaches to promote physical activity during lockdown	8
‘Why don't you really learn anything in PEH?’ – Students’ experiences of valid knowledge and the basis for assessment in physical education and health (PEH)	7
Binary and non-binary trans students’ experiences in physical education: A systematic review	7
Understanding Midwestern US Teacher Socialization during the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Public elementary school teachers’ positioning in teaching physical education to Japanese language learners	7
Cross-cultural comparison of fundamental movement skills in 9- to 10-year-old children from England and China	7
The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport	7
“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers	7
The structural and convergent validity of the FMS² assessment tool among 8- to 12-year-old children	7
Relationships between university instructors’ and preservice teachers’ content knowledge	7
The dynamics of external provision in physical education	7
Physical education in rural schools: A scoping review	7
Promotion of physical activity-related health competence in physical education: A person-oriented approach for evaluating the GEKOS intervention within a cluster randomized controlled trial	7
“We can do this”: Physical educators’ role breadth self-efficacy to be involved with CSPAPs from an occupational socialization perspective	6
Principals’ attitudes and intentions toward supporting adapted physical education	6
Perceived organizational support, marginalization, isolation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction of PETE faculty members	6
Learning to facilitate student voice in primary physical education	6
The Spectrum of Teaching Styles and models-based practice for physical education	6
Examination of associations across transformational teacher leadership, motivational orientation, enjoyment, and boredom in physical education students	6
Growth trajectories and roles of expectancy, task value, and cost in middle-school physical education	6
Physical education in a post-COVID world: A blended-gamified approach	5
From kindergarten to primary school – Physical education as a support for students’ transition	5
Acute enhancement of executive functions through cognitively challenging physical activity games in elementary physical education	5
‘Now I think you have been bewitching and bewildering me’: The utilisation of Aporia in Game-Based Approaches as a means of deconstructing and reconstructing power relations	5
Muslim students’ experiences of physical education: A scoping review	5
Motivation, basic psychological needs and intention to be physically active after a gamified intervention programme	5
Video modeling examples are effective tools for self-regulated learning in physical education: Students learn through repeated viewing, self-talk, and mental rehearsal	4
Engaging young people with disabilities in research about their experiences of physical education and sport: A scoping review of methodologies and methods	4
‘It is hard to establish boundaries’: Pupils’ and teachers’ perceptions of blurred lines between banter and bullying in secondary physical education	4

Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go!	4
A systematic review exploring body image programmes and interventions in physical education	4
Psychological needs satisfaction in physical education predicts a positive development of motivation in early adolescence: A latent growth modeling study	4
Physical education student teachers’ wellbeing during Covid-19: Resilience resources and challenges from school placement	4
“I hate that education is a business”: Influence of occupational socialization on sport pedagogy doctoral students’ intended PETE programs	4
Informal learning contexts in the construction of physical education student teachers’ professional identity	4
Exploring teacher educator pedagogical decision-making about a combined pedagogy of social justice and meaningful physical education	4
Physical education teachers’ experiences of the meaning of feedback in PE	4
The purpose of primary physical education: The views of teacher educators	4
Co-development of a gamified physical education movement competence intervention with school stakeholders	4
Examining the relationships among preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs, emotions, and professional identity	3
Enacting assessment for learning in the induction phase of physical education teaching	3
Professional networks, collegial support, and school leaders: How physical education teachers manage reality shock, marginalization, and isolation in a decentralized school system	3
The acute effect of heart rate monitor projection on exercise effort in school students	3
Gendered grouping practices in secondary physical education in England: Listening to student voice	3
Associations between physical educators’ appearance and sex and high school pupils’ cognitive performance and perceptions of teacher characteristics	3
Formative and shared assessment: Literature review on the main contributions in physical education and physical education teacher education	3
The health and educational impact of removing financial constraints for school sport	3
Japanese elementary teachers’ experiences during online professional development regarding involvement of immigrant parents in physical education	3
A figurational analysis of secondary physical education gendered changing room procedures and practices in England	3
Towards precarity? The occupational situation of physical education teachers in Poland	3
Understanding US PETE Faculty Stress in the Sociopolitical Environment of Higher Education	3
Developing a framework for a games-based injury prevention exercise programme for post-primary (12–18 years) physical education class: A Delphi poll study	3
Exploring the co-construction of an action research experience between a teacher educator and pre-service teachers	3
Formative assessment of motor learning through digital tools in physical education: A systematic literature review	3
Teaching about planning in pre-service physical education teacher education: A collaborative self-study	3
Is the development of physical literacy ubiquitous in high-quality physical education?	3