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

Article	Citations
“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	33
Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go!	32
Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts	27
Beginning, rise, fall, and comeback: Exploring the journey of a physical education teacher community in South Korea	25
Physical education students’ usage and perceptions of a supplemental online health-related fitness knowledge curriculum (iPE)	23
The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport	22
“It's more about building trust”: Physical education teachers’ experiences with trauma-informed practices	20
Adaptation and testing of the factorial structure of the Achievement Emotional Questionnaire-Short to the Spanish context of physical education classes	18
High- versus low-structured cooperative learning in secondary physical education: Impact on prosocial behaviours at different ages	17
Design of a new movement competence assessment for children aged 8–12: A Delphi poll study	15
The dynamics of external provision in physical education	15
The purpose of primary physical education: The views of teacher educators	14
Formative assessment in physical education: teachers’ experiences when designing and implementing formative assessment activities	14
Including students with physical disabilities in physical education in Singapore: Perspectives of peers without disabilities	14
Physical literacy in children: Exploring the construct validity of a multidimensional physical literacy construct	14
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education	14
One-year stability of physical education-centered physical literacy indicators on objectively measured physical activity	14
Cross-cultural comparison of fundamental movement skills in 9- to 10-year-old children from England and China	13
Binary and non-binary trans students’ experiences in physical education: A systematic review	13
Information and communication technologies in physical education: Exploring the association between role modeling and digital literacy	13
“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers	13
Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling: A Deleuzian perspective	13
Enhancing sport education experiences through service-learning	13
Teaching physical education in ‘paradise’: Activity levels, lesson context and barriers to quality implementation	12
Preservice physical education teachers’ perceptions of initial teacher education	12

Understandings and enactments of social justice pedagogies in Swedish physical education and health practice	12
The structural and convergent validity of the FMS² assessment tool among 8- to 12-year-old children	12
Beginning teachers’ descriptions of ball games as pedagogic practice in Swedish physical education	11
The acute effect of heart rate monitor projection on exercise effort in school students	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
Physical education student teachers’ wellbeing during Covid-19: Resilience resources and challenges from school placement	10
Universal design for learning in physical education: Overview and critical reflection	10
Students’ perceptions of teaching styles use and motivation to participate in PE: A multigroup analysis of the mediating role of basic psychological needs	10
Exploring social justice pedagogies in physical education in Austria: Teaching practices for diversity and equity	10
A figurational analysis of secondary physical education gendered changing room procedures and practices in England	10
Capturing the multidimensionality of motivation in physical education: A self-organizing maps approach to profiling students	9
Why modify? Visually impaired students’ views on activity modifications in physical education	9
“I hate that education is a business”: Influence of occupational socialization on sport pedagogy doctoral students’ intended PETE programs	9
‘Same, same, but different?!’ Investigating diversity issues in the current Austrian National Curriculum for Physical Education	9
Antecedents of primary school teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles in physical education	9
The if, why and how of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom	8
Teaching about planning in pre-service physical education teacher education: A collaborative self-study	8
The (im)possibilities of praxis in online health and physical education teacher education	8
A three-legged stool: Teachers’ views of Junior Cycle Physical Education curriculum change	8
Understanding US PETE Faculty Stress in the Sociopolitical Environment of Higher Education	7
A relational perspective on students' experiences of participation in an ‘Interest-based physical education’ programme	7
Effects of the Sport Education model on adolescents’ motivational, emotional, and well-being dimensions during a school year	7
Self-made material in physical education: Teacher perceptions of the use of an emerging pedagogical model before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Growth trajectories and roles of expectancy, task value, and cost in middle-school physical education	7
‘I’m nearly as active as the boys who play football’: A multiple-case study of social identification among least active pupils	7
Students’ perceptions of visibility in physical education	7
Does Sport Education promote equitable game-play participation? Effects of learning context and students’ sex and skill-level	7
Investigating preservice classroom teachers’ practices and views about teaching physical education lessons: An exploratory case study	7
Developing adaptive teaching competence in preservice physical education teachers	7
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	6
Principals’ attitudes and intentions toward supporting adapted physical education	6
Learning to facilitate student voice in primary physical education	6
Understanding Midwestern US Teacher Socialization during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Ability in physical education – No, I can’t discuss it! Insights from lower secondary physical education teachers in Western Australia	6
The Spectrum of Teaching Styles and models-based practice for physical education	6
Looking forwards and backwards: The continuing influence of COVID-19 on the practices of physical education teachers	6
Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature	6
What is the meaning of PE? Exploring the influence of an educational curriculum approach on students’ participation and non-participation in physical education	6
The process(es) of learning about teaching using models-based practice: Pre-service teachers’ experiences	6
Meritocracy and material consequences at the intersection of race, class, and disability for pre-service PE teachers	5
Perceived organizational support, marginalization, isolation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction of PETE faculty members	5
See the forest by looking at the trees: Physical education teachers’ interpersonal style profiles and students’ engagement	5
The (virtual) teaching of physical education in times of pandemic	5
Students’ need satisfaction and frustration profiles: Differences in outcomes in physical education and physical activity-related variables	5
Examination of associations across transformational teacher leadership, motivational orientation, enjoyment, and boredom in physical education students	5
Physical education in a post-COVID world: A blended-gamified approach	4
“We can do this”: Physical educators’ role breadth self-efficacy to be involved with CSPAPs from an occupational socialization perspective	4
Elementary physical education teachers’ perceptions of socializing agents during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The role of marginalisation and role stressors in physical education teachers’ perceived mattering	4
Development of the Pre-service Physical Education Teachers' Teacher Identity Scale	4

‘Involve me, and I learn’: Effects of social status on students’ physical activity, skill, and knowledge during group work	4
Providing physical education preservice teachers with opportunities to interrogate their conceptions and practices of assessment	4
Physical education teachers’ perceptions and operationalisations of personal and social development goals in primary education	4
Flourishing through The Spectrum: Toward an affective-oriented composite pedagogical model?	4
Meaningful physical education: Towards an embodied pedagogy	4
Swimming competence of 9–10-year-old Norwegian primary school children: A cross-sectional study of physical education	4
Is the development of physical literacy ubiquitous in high-quality physical education?	3
Bildung: A German student-centered approach to health and physical education	3
Practising in physical education: A study of a teacher's experiences and role enactment	3
Physical activity opportunities for secondary school students: International best practices for whole-of-school physical activity programs	3
Teaching with the test: Using fitness tests to teach paradoxically in physical education	3
Children's motivation for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity during the Daily Mile: A theory of planned behaviour perspective	3
When teachers Google physical literacy: A cartography of controversies analysis	3
Adolescents’ enjoyment in face-to-face physical education during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Towards precarity? The occupational situation of physical education teachers in Poland	3
Two physical educators’ sense of purpose as an indicator of teaching sustainability over time in a high-poverty school setting	3
Relationships between pre-service teachers’ self-reported physical activity and their perceptions of physical education in early childhood teacher education	3
Examining the relationships among preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs, emotions, and professional identity	3
Japanese elementary teachers’ experiences during online professional development regarding involvement of immigrant parents in physical education	3
Muslim students’ experiences of physical education: A scoping review	3
Under a growth-centered accountability system: A job demand and resource perspective for physical educators	3